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Vancouver Sun is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Katherine Monk.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2/5
North (1994) Katherine Monk Reiner doesn't spend anytime to sew it all together into a coherent, comic and meaningful film.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Katherine Monk To Jackson's credit, Return of the King is not only a jaw-dropping feast for the eyes, but a coherent, rousing narrative that manages to bring emotional closure to the whole project.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Katherine Monk Credit to director Peter Jackson for making the whole film work, from beginning to end, when it could have easily been a jumbled disaster.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Spider-Man (2002) Katherine Monk Director Dam Raimi not only nails the look and mood of the comic book with his compressed tableaux, primary-colored palette and abbreviated story-telling, he finds the perfect balance between realism and fantasy.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Requiem for a Dream (2000) Katherine Monk As a story, this long, bleak descent into consumer hell doesn't sound like it would be much fun to watch as a movie. But there is something undeniably engrossing about Requiem for a Dream and it's a direct result of Darren Aronofsky's direction.
Posted Aug 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Red Rock West (1993) Katherine Monk Cage's real coup is that he doesn't push the good side and make Mike a really boring character. He seems to possess an incredible sense of internal timing that pulls depth from his character when you least expect it.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Superman Returns (2006) Katherine Monk ...Singer had all the tools to strike a balance between action-movie spectacle and moving human drama. But he can't quite pull it off because the script feels incomplete from the very first sequence, and grows more confusing with each new scene.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Jurassic Park (1993) Katherine Monk When it's all over, it feels like you just survived nine rounds with old George Foreman: dazed, pumped on adrenalin and a few brain cells less than when you started... but you're pretty sure you had fun.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Jurassic Park III (2001) Katherine Monk With better graphics than its predecessors, a complete understanding of its comic-book proportions, a few good gags and a mercifully short running time, it sputters to its destination and delivers some mindless, summer fun without too many stalls.
Posted Jun 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Final Destination (2000) Katherine Monk It offers enough blood, chills, special effects and bad jokes to keep it in the air long enough for a ride. It simply fails to land in one piece.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Mission: Impossible III (2006) Katherine Monk Director J.J. Abrams does a nice job making Cruise look heroic...without making it look like a fashion shoot -although, there are times when it's tough to tell- and he even has enough confidence to offer some quiet moments to push some emotional content.
Posted May 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Mission: Impossible II (2000) Katherine Monk It's got the right look, the chiseled detail and the wrinkle-free image that only a face-peeling expert like Woo could achieve.
Posted May 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) Katherine Monk I was still frustrated by the reliance on computers when it came to character, but the light sabre finale was such good, silly fun -- that I forgave Lucas all the technical excess, embraced the hokum and enjoyed the ride.
Posted Apr 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Katherine Monk Revenge of the Sith is an anemic script pumped up on so many cinematic steroids, it's lost all sense of dramatic finesse.
Posted Apr 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) Katherine Monk A good movie touches you, and Phantom Menace - cocooned in cold, computer-generated images and dull, unsympathetic characters - couldn't poke a single finger out of its hard drive shell.
Posted Apr 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Scream 2 (1997) Katherine Monk Scream 2 continues the joke and for the most part, the gags are just as good and the film is just as entertaining.
Posted Feb 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Lion King (1994) Katherine Monk Imagine hamlet in fuzzy costumes, and you have a pretty good idea of what The Lion King is all about.
Posted Dec 20, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Hercules (1997) Katherine Monk What a perfect Disney statement for our times. Multinational conglomerate remakes myth according to its own image based in money, corporate domination and misplaced family values.
Posted Dec 18, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Alien Resurrection (1997) Katherine Monk Alien Resurrection has big props, a big budget and some brilliant horror, but it lacks feeling and blows the climax. Must be "one of those chick things."
Posted Aug 06, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Almost Famous (2000) Katherine Monk The resulting revelations are about as deep as "rock 'n' roll is a vicious game," but Crowe knows his material intimately and translates this life-altering drama into a movie that is fleetingly profound and profoundly entertaining.
Posted Mar 26, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Forrest Gump (1994) Katherine Monk A tasty mix of the comic and the absurd. You never know what you're gonna get, but you can always be sure Hanks will deliver the goods in mint condition.
Posted Mar 01, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) Katherine Monk You'll laugh, you'll cry. In short, you could say Four Weddings and a Funeral delivers everything it promises.
Posted Feb 29, 2024  Edit critic review
2/4
Grease (1978) Katherine Monk 20 years hence -- despite time's inability to romanticize every sentimental stain and pop culture souvenir along the way -- Grease just ins't very good.
Posted Feb 07, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Mean Girls (2004) Katherine Monk Mean Girls escapes relatively unscathed thanks to the presence of Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams, who form the central core of the movie as rival teen queens.
Posted Jan 09, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Smoke Signals (1998) Katherine Monk Only after you've sat with it for a while does the greater, universal message of true self-love take form. Fortunately, the delayed impact takes nothing away from the movie's upfront entertainment value.
Posted Nov 08, 2023  Edit critic review
5/5
Atanarjuat the Fast Runner (2001) Katherine Monk A cinematic marvel that stands to challenge just about everything you thought you knew about movie-making, life in general -- and your role in both.
Posted Nov 08, 2023  Edit critic review
4/4
Magnolia (1999) Katherine Monk With Magnolia, Anderson has not only created a little masterpiece that promises to resonate weeks after you see it, he has also proven himself to be one of the most important American filmmakers of our times.
Posted Jul 15, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
The Matrix (1999) Katherine Monk If you're looking for a good spring fix of existentialist sci-fi, look no further than The Matrix -- then do everything you can to look deeper than the skin-tight surface.
Posted Jul 13, 2023  Edit critic review
2/5
Armageddon (1998) Katherine Monk Good moments can still be found before the movie melts into one steaming pile of space junk, but after two hours of witnessing stupid human behavior, the last thing you really want to see is the salvation of the species.
Posted Jun 21, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Katherine Monk It's been close to 20 years, but the core of the Indiana Jones franchise remains well-preserved in a sticky cocoon of candy floss and coloured sugar thanks to the talents of proven cinematic confectioners Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
Posted Apr 12, 2023  Edit critic review
1/5
Godzilla (1998) Katherine Monk For Godzilla to really work his magic, he must be a reflection of ourselves -- a lost soul perverted by the wanton acts of modern man. There is no connection here and that's why this movie, like most modern monster movies, fails miserably.
Posted Feb 14, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
The Big Lebowski (1998) Katherine Monk Just sit back and enjoy it, dude -- maybe life isn't supposed to make sense.
Posted Jan 20, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Down in the Delta (1998) Katherine Monk For a first feature, however, Down on the Delta serves as a good screen introduction to an important American presence.
Posted Jan 09, 2023  Edit critic review
3/4
Addams Family Values (1993) Katherine Monk Teetering on the brink of absolute tastelessness and cutting-edge humor, Addams Family Values lands just where you want it: dancing gracefully on the grave of one long gag.
Posted Sep 22, 2022  Edit critic review
3/4
El Mariachi (1992) Katherine Monk Not all of it works, but young Rodriguez understands the most important thing of all: keep people entertained, and you can get away with anything.
Posted Sep 08, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Go Fish (1994) Katherine Monk Troche's grainy and goofy picture explores a completely different perspective: that of a community.
Posted Aug 25, 2021  Edit critic review
4/4
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) Katherine Monk Every actor turns in a solid, balanced and detailed performance.
Posted Aug 16, 2021  Edit critic review
1/4
Hard Promises (1991) Katherine Monk The movie is not incredibly bad, nor is it incredibly good. In fact, it is nothing much at all.
Posted Aug 16, 2021  Edit critic review
3/4
Lonely Hearts (1991) Katherine Monk While it's not brilliant, Lonely Hearts has a strange enough beat to keep it interesting. Roberts and D'Angelo pull silent truth from their characters using their bodies and facial expression.
Posted Aug 16, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Girlfight (2000) Katherine Monk Girlfight brings freshness and enthusiasm to a routine we've seen several times over.
Posted Mar 25, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
Bhaji on the Beach (1993) Katherine Monk It's not always funny, its not always pretty it's not even consistently well-shot but thanks to a wonderful cast and sincere direction Bhaji an the Beach is a delightful film full of surprises that will stick in your heart like a deep-fried dumpling.
Posted Mar 18, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Katherine Monk An elegant balance between light and dark, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo benefits from Fincher's ascetic treatment, and will silence any of the naysayers who felt the whole American version was little more than a money grab.
Posted Jun 20, 2017  Edit critic review
Rise of the Guardians (2012) Katherine Monk Lost in a dizzying sea of images that will no doubt dazzle the senses, the viewer will cling to the handful of scenes where we're treated to dramatic dialogue and character development -- because they're surprisingly solid.
Posted Nov 20, 2012  Edit critic review
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) Katherine Monk Easily the worst outing in an already mediocre movie series.
Posted Sep 13, 2012  Edit critic review
3/5
Collaborator (2011) Katherine Monk A solid, character-based drama that speaks to the disappointments of middle age and mortality in general, Collaborator doesn't let anyone off the hook -- not even the viewer.
Posted Jul 17, 2012  Edit critic review
The Dictator (2012) Katherine Monk Not all comedy can be redeemed with gooey sentiment or a man hug in the final frames, but The Dictator makes good on its promise of a raunchy comedy with a worthy message, and delivers lowbrow yuks with high-minded intellect.
Posted May 11, 2012  Edit critic review
4/5
The Muppets (2011) Katherine Monk An altogether charming, smart and strangely moving little movie.
Posted Jan 04, 2012  Edit critic review
Like Crazy (2011) Katherine Monk This movie creates an emotional collage of those moments that eventually decide the fate of every couple. Sweet, subtle and perfectly acted, Like Crazy is easy to fall for.
Posted Oct 27, 2011  Edit critic review
3/5
Friends With Benefits (2011) Jay Stone There's some fun in this if you stick with it.
Posted Aug 24, 2011  Edit critic review
Bart Got a Room (2008) Katherine Monk Hecker's film finds a charm that eludes most movies dependent on misplaced prostitutes, bedroom sex noises and male insecurities.
Posted May 15, 2009  Edit critic review
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