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Tom Horgen
24 reviews, averaging 64.7% positive

 

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1.
The Woman in Black (2012)
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
02/03/12 Good (Not Great) "...a skillful haunted-house film that will soon evaporate from your memory like the ghostly specter of its title."
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My Week With Marilyn
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
11/23/11 Outstanding "Michelle Williams disappears so effortlessly into Monroe's translucent skin that the camera lens seems to fog up with desire. She's that good."
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The Dead (2011)
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
10/07/11 Moderate "The movie's war-torn African setting suggests a built-in socio-political subtext. But the film stays fairly straightforward, which makes the sight of a white guy shooting down African villagers a little odd, even if they are zombies."
4.
Captain America: The First Avenger
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
07/22/11 Good (Not Great) "Here's what's missing: tension, drama, and most of all, a sense of wonder. This is a superhero movie, isn't it?"
5.
Beats, Rhymes and Life
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
07/22/11 Outstanding "A Tribe Called Quest deserved a fully realized documentary and Rapaport delivers a portrait that is as naked as they come."
6.
Prom (2011)
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
04/29/11 Good (Not Great) "...pure bubble gum, from its shiny wrapping to its mushy insides to its fleeting aftertaste. And sometimes, there's nothing wrong with chewing bubble gum."
7.
Mars Needs Moms
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
03/11/11 Moderate "...fast and fun, but it's also stocked with the usual cavalcade of cloying life lessons. Love your mother (duh). You don't know what you've got till it's gone (thanks). And all you need is love (got it)."
8.
The Rite (2011)
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
01/28/11 Weak "...a horror film that goes nowhere very, very slowly."
9.
The Green Hornet (2011)
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
01/14/11 Outstanding "...fresh, funny and a bewildering surprise.... Now, a note on the 3-D. It's good.... a buddy comedy with actual emotion."
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Faster (2010)
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
11/24/10 Good (Not Great) "...frantic, stylized action.... playing a juiced-up superhero who 'refused to die' seems to always result in the same thing for Johnson. It's simply adequate."
11.
Ahead of Time
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
11/19/10 Very Good "...an elegant portrait of a woman who never stopped making history.... a great documentary, flawed only by its hesitation to stir the pot."
12.
Catfish
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
10/01/10 Very Good "...a very personal episode in these people's lives (Megan's' included) that we probably shouldn't be seeing."
13.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
09/24/10 Weak "Stone's visual tricks are tired and random. He employs split-screen sequences without rhyme or reason. The ghost of Langella shows up in a truly laughable sequence."
14.
The Town
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
09/17/10 Outstanding "As an action movie, 'The Town' is good. But as a moody character study, it can be mesmerizing."
15.
Machete
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
09/03/10 Outstanding "...absurd, absolutely insane and a lot of fun."
16.
Going the Distance
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
09/03/10 Weak "...tries its hardest to blend Apatow's bromance humor with the rom-com's sappy conventionalism. The result is a goulash that just doesn't taste right."
17.
Lebanon
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
09/03/10 Outstanding "...stunning, intense..."
18.
The Switch (2010)
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
08/20/10 Moderate "If you'll remember (you probably won't), Jennifer Lopez covered similar ground earlier this year in 'The Back-up Plan'.... [but] Aniston and Bateman find a funny chemistry together, and the film's bemusing setup unfolds with wit and charm."
19.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
08/13/10 Good (Not Great) "A movie based on a comic book that played with a video-game aesthetic, it tangles all of these elements into an exhilarating stab at high-concept action comedy. Whew."
20.
The Other Guys
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
08/06/10 Very Good "Do we really need another buddy-cop comedy? While stupefying, the answer is, surprisingly, 'yes.' "

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