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Escondido Times-Advocate (CA)

Escondido Times-Advocate (CA) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Kirk Honeycutt.

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The Wiz (1978) Kirk Honeycutt I would never have believed that Sidney Lumet ever had anything to do with this... For the first third of the film, he can't even decide where to put the camera.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Starman (1984) Kirk Honeycutt At least you care about its characters, which is no small thing in a genre where hardware usually predominates.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Supergirl (1984) Kirk Honeycutt Director Jeannot Szwarc never locates any story in all this, so no momentum is established.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman II (1980) Kirk Honeycutt Personally, I think the sequel is a marked improvement over the first edition. For one thing, this film is relieved of an obligation to establish Superman's credentials as in the opening chapter.
Posted Jun 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Kirk Honeycutt The film glories in this deadpan humor and its wacky, improbably escapes and situations.
Posted May 02, 2023  Edit critic review
9 to 5 (1980) Kirk Honeycutt Colin Higgins directs broadly, which is to say he never knows when to leave well enough alone.
Posted Mar 03, 2023  Edit critic review
Chariots of Fire (1981) Kirk Honeycutt Chariots of Fire is, like all of producer David Puttnam's films, exceptionally well photographed and acted with verve by a fresh crop of young performers. Yet all the film presents are miscellaneous incidents without any real connecting tissue.
Posted Jul 18, 2022  Edit critic review
Ordinary People (1980) Kirk Honeycutt Robert Redford chose this story for his directional debut undoubtedly because it's an actor's movie. And, boy, can Redford direct actors! There isn't a false note in any performance.
Posted Jul 14, 2022  Edit critic review
Thief (1981) Kirk Honeycutt The film is white hot with data, but the very steadiness of the data, the almost drone-like quality reinforced by the hammering soundtrack music by Tangerine Dream and the clear, close-up images empties the mind and spurs the adrenaline.
Posted Jul 07, 2022  Edit critic review
The Last Unicorn (1982) Kirk Honeycutt My guess is that The Last Unicom falls into a dangerous no-man's-land: Its storyline is too uninvolving for children and the animation too unsophisticated to intrigue adults.
Posted Jul 21, 2021  Edit critic review
Paris, Texas (1984) Kirk Honeycutt Paris, Texas is the cinematic equivalent of a symphony. The film is composed in movements that chart the emotional lives of its characters -- of haunting images and anxious silences, of gestures, landscapes, weird juxtapositions and epiphanies.
Posted Jul 21, 2021  Edit critic review
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