ROTTEN TOMATOES: Michael Hardy

MICHAEL HARDY

Agrees with the Tomatometer 65% of the time.

Publications: Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle

Total Reviews: 20

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Rotten 1/4	Rotten 4%	Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)	" This is a movie for the overcaffeinated, undereducated teenager in all of us." — Boston Globe Posted Mar 2, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 47%	Chandni Chowk to China (2009)	" Chandni Chowk to China is Bollywood's all-singing, all-dancing, all-Hindi bid to conquer America." — Boston Globe Posted Jan 16, 2009
Rotten .5/4	Fresh 60%	Quarantine (2008)	" I have seen many execrable films -- Plan 9 From Outer Space, Disaster Movie, Batman & Robin -- but never has a movie made me so physically ill." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 13, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 97%	The Pool (2008)	" Many directors claim to value local color, but few have gone as far, or achieved such impressive results, as has Chris Smith in The Pool." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 3, 2008
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 40%	Fireproof (2008)	" *With the production values of a straight-to-video cheapie and the script of a mediocre soap opera, Fireproof* is good for just about one thing: dousing whatever flames might be left in your marriage.*" — Boston Globe* Posted Sep 29, 2008
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 64%	Beautiful Losers (2008)	" One of the year's best documentaries." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 26, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 8%	Red Roses and Petrol (2008)	" *Because Petrol* is so grim, its few moments of repentance and reconciliation don't feel as contrived as they might otherwise; if any film has earned the right to be sentimental, it's this one.*" — Boston Globe* Posted Sep 12, 2008
Rotten .5/4	Rotten 2%	Disaster Movie (2008)	" No one spoofed in the film -- yes, including Jessica Simpson -- is more worthy of derision than the people responsible for making it." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 2, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 74%	A Jihad for Love (2007)	" Makes an invaluable contribution by recording the names, faces, and stories of gay men and women struggling to reconcile their religion with their sexuality." — Boston Globe Posted Jun 27, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 58%	Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008)	" *Perhaps inevitably, the story and characters in Bab'Aziz* never rival the interest of its photography.*" — Boston Globe* Posted Apr 25, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 7%	Shutter (2008)	" *If Shutter* is any indication, the reputation of professional photographers is still on the wane. Not only are photographs creepy, the film suggests, but so are photographers.*" — Boston Globe* Posted Mar 24, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 11%	Blood and Chocolate (2007)	" The city ends up being more interesting than the story or characters. Too bad we can barely see it." — Boston Globe Posted Dec 3, 2007
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 78%	The Page Turner (2007)	" *The stakes in this story seem too low to justify its audience�s attention. If The Page Turner* were a novel, it would hardly be a page turner. Why should we hold films to a lower standard?*" — Boston Globe* Posted Apr 20, 2007
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 12%	The Aryan Couple (2004)	" Mainly notable for its inappropriate, blithe sentimentality. In another film this would be the usual Hollywood hokum. In a film about the most serious subject imaginable, it amounts to moral idiocy." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 6, 2006
Fresh	Rotten 4%	Material Girls (2006)	" It succeeds on its own terms. These days, even pre teens live in a material world." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 21, 2006
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 60%	Lower City (2006)	" Everyone involved in the film seems better than the material." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 12, 2006
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 63%	Saint Ralph (2005)	" *It's hard to dislike schmaltz as mild as Saint Ralph, but let's try: The film is as bland as a communion wafer, sentimental as a Christmas homily, and predictable as the liturgy." — Houston Chronicle* Posted Aug 5, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 46%	Dark Water (2005)	" Salles seems too uncomfortable with the fantastic to get full value from the creeps and jumps his camerawork delivers." — Houston Chronicle Posted Jul 8, 2005
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 14%	Rebound (2005)	" Rebound's reiteration of the Mighty Ducks paradigm of kiddie sports movies often feels tediously academic as it scrambles to touch all the generic bases." — Houston Chronicle Posted Jul 1, 2005

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