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Ernest Hardy

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications:: Film.com , L.A. Weekly , Village Voice
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 379

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
—	——	The Front Line (2007)	— Village Voice Posted Jan 18, 2012
	55%	The Front Line (2012)	" Quick, unexpected flashes engross the viewer in this Korean War tale even as the script is filled with conventional war movie tropes and types." — Village Voice Posted Jan 17, 2012
	93%	The Pruitt-igoe Myth: An Urban History (2012)	" Given the ongoing shredding of the social safety net in America, the film's greatest service might be to remind us that programs and services for the poor have always had hostile enemies." — Village Voice Posted Jan 17, 2012
	100%	Kinyarwanda (2011)	" Cast with both professional and novice actors (which results in uneven performances), the beautifully shot film is filled with exquisite moments..." — Village Voice Posted Nov 29, 2011
	100%	Under Fire: Journalists In Combat (2011)	" Fascinating and often devastating." — Village Voice Posted Nov 29, 2011
	100%	An African Election (2011)	" What makes the film especially resonate now is the frustration with the status quo that is consistently voiced by the people on the street." — Village Voice Posted Nov 29, 2011
	86%	The Big Fix (2011)	" Fix stretches into a mandatory-viewing critique of widespread government corruption..." — Village Voice Posted Nov 29, 2011
	71%	Dzi Croquettes (2009)	" It's the mind-blowing performance footage (and there's lots of it) that makes this a must-see film." — Village Voice Posted Nov 15, 2011
	70%	Oranges And Sunshine (2011)	" Oranges and Sunshine is thrillingly efficient filmmaking." — Village Voice Posted Oct 18, 2011
	85%	The Blair Witch Project (1999)	" It's a small film whose power is derived from its stripped-down scale." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 17, 2011
	67%	The Sons Of Tennessee Williams (2011)	" The overly familiar coming-out tales, stories of police brutality, and outlining of socially sanctioned gay bashing, while important for the historical record, have been told so often elsewhere that they've lost their ability to illuminate." — Village Voice Posted Oct 4, 2011
	100%	Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011)	" Packed with fantastic performance footage, it solidly makes the case that, throughout the '80s and early '90s, Fishbone was one of rock's best live acts ever -- furiously energetic, innovative, leaping multiple genres in a single song." — Village Voice Posted Oct 4, 2011
	64%	American Teacher (2011)	" What's made powerfully clear is that we've reached a dire point of crisis that, while largely rooted in economics, is about so much more than dollars and cents." — Village Voice Posted Sep 27, 2011
	92%	Benda Bilili! (2011)	" See the film to glimpse something of the band's awesome stage show." — Village Voice Posted Sep 27, 2011
	——	@urFRENZ (2011)	" Writer-director Jeff Phillips' critique of how social media shapes lives doesn't have the scope of David Fincher's Social Network, but in its own way it's just as ambitious." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 26, 2011
	10%	One Fall (2011)	" The cast is engaging, and there are a few light-chuckle moments, but the script needed another rewrite, and the film itself needed to be guided by a thornier sensibility than Fuller's." — Village Voice Posted Sep 13, 2011
	81%	Where Soldiers Come From (2011)	" Much of what's presented is familiar territory, but it's the moments that fracture prejudices and expectations that stick with you." — Village Voice Posted Sep 6, 2011
	——	New York Says Thank You ()	" As the film progresses, it becomes clear that it's an infomercial -- from the glossy look to Rettberg's easy acceptance of everything said; nothing is challenged, no questions are asked." — Village Voice Posted Aug 30, 2011
	41%	Special Treatment (2011)	" Despite uniformly fine acting, Special Treatment never really pulls the viewer in because its insights and observations, while artfully rendered, don't possess the energy of revelation; they're largely obvious." — Village Voice Posted Aug 23, 2011
	73%	Mozart's Sister (2011)	" Subplots hint at what could have been, nudging the film toward biting rather than obvious commentary on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and creativity, and the costs of thwarting expression of any of them. But F�ret barely explores this." — Village Voice Posted Aug 16, 2011
—	——	Bitter Harvest (1993)	— Village Voice Posted Aug 3, 2011
	54%	Farmageddon (2011)	" A lesser effort in the burgeoning canon, it's still effective in its goals: illuminating how denigrated and dangerous our food supply is." — Village Voice Posted Jul 5, 2011
	——	Late Autumn (Manchu) (2011)	" Writer-director Kim Tae-Yong uses the melancholic, gray backdrop of Seattle as both character and metaphor, crafting a film that's visually beautiful and incredibly moving." — Village Voice Posted Jun 21, 2011
	48%	Angel of Evil (2011)	" You can all but feel the checklist being marked off, and the viewer is never really drawn into the world or made to care what's happening." — Village Voice Posted Jun 14, 2011
	50%	Spork (2011)	" Ghuman might have managed to salvage the film from its weak script if he'd had a firmer grasp on tone, and a better melding of the mish-mash of pop culture references." — Village Voice Posted May 24, 2011
	0%	The Abduction Of Zack Butterfield (2011)	" The script is often ludicrous (gratuitous digs at feminism; muddled commentary on war and the military), the sets look like sets, and the acting -- aside from Helsham and Plunkett -- doesn't even rise to the level of student films." — Village Voice Posted May 24, 2011
	73%	The Big Uneasy (2010)	" Shearer builds an airtight case to prove his thesis, and one of his most chilling arguments is a roll call of brave souls whose lives and careers have been systematically wrecked in pursuit of the truth." — Village Voice Posted May 17, 2011
	100%	Louder Than A Bomb (2011)	" The movie floats to another realm entirely when the cameras go into the home of Nova Venerable." — Village Voice Posted May 17, 2011
	59%	Daydream Nation (2011)	" Another film in which on-screen teens, especially the nubile femme fatale at the center, are but vessels to showcase the screenwriter's irony-drenched, self-satisfied intellect." — Village Voice Posted May 3, 2011
	14%	When Harry Tries to Marry (2011)	" A bright, colorful slab of faux-multiculturalism, When Harry Tries to Marry is a substandard romantic comedy gussied up in Indian drag." — Village Voice Posted Apr 19, 2011
	83%	Fly Away (2011)	" The lead performances are solid, as are the supporting actors, and Grillo is more than competent as a director. But Fly Away could have been stronger if its antiseptic visual style... had been more adventurous." — L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 13, 2011
	33%	Exodus Fall (2011)	" It's all broad strokes, resulting in performances (especially Arquette's) void of subtlety -- more the rendering of types than characters." — L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 7, 2011
	68%	Joueuse (Queen to Play) (2011)	" The supporting cast is uniformly fine, but the film rests on the delicate shoulders of Bonnaire, who carries it with a soulful, magnetic presence." — Village Voice Posted Mar 29, 2011
	92%	Circo (2011)	" Circo is filled with beautiful images and haunting moments." — Village Voice Posted Mar 29, 2011
	88%	The Desert Of Forbidden Art (2011)	" It's a must-see for anyone interested in art." — Village Voice Posted Mar 8, 2011
	52%	Brotherhood (2011)	" Leanly scripted, directed for maximum tension, fast-moving and filled with a surprising amount of droll humor." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 3, 2011
	——	Devolved ()	" Unlike in a Hughes film, there are no classic lines, though there are some good ones, and the energy often flags, but the cast is appealing and there are low-grade chuckles aplenty." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 3, 2011
	——	Detective K (2011)	" Kim Suk-yoon becomes so heavy-handed in handling the issue of Christianity that the film winds up an infomercial for the religion, complete with syrupy strings playing on the soundtrack as poor believers are beaten by soldiers." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 3, 2011
	7%	Immigration Tango (2011)	" This is a film in which characters are flung out of character solely for cheap laughs and rarely actually listen or talk to one another." — Village Voice Posted Feb 15, 2011
	0%	Dressed (2011)	" David John Swajeski, who directed, produced, and edited this documentary on the fledgling fashionista, snags his film on clich�s, poor pacing, and an unwillingness or inability to push his subject beyond talk-show pop-psych babble." — Village Voice Posted Feb 1, 2011
	87%	Lemmy (2011)	" Devotees of Lemmy Kilmister will be in heaven watching this gushing love letter to the man who straddles rock subgenres, but anyone who's not already a fan will cry for mercy long before the nearly two-hour film ends." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 20, 2011
	60%	Plastic Planet (2011)	" A must-see for anyone even remotely interested in the staggering health costs of plastic to humans and the planet itself." — Village Voice Posted Jan 12, 2011
	——	Violent Blue (2010)	" Violent Blue is a mishmash of tones and intentions." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 6, 2011
	29%	The Tempest (2010)	" There's sound and fury, but the result is more drizzle than tempest." — Village Voice Posted Dec 7, 2010
	88%	Undertow (2010)	" Set in a small, picturesque Peruvian fishing village, it's less a coming-out tale than a magic realism-infused coming-of-consciousness love story." — Village Voice Posted Nov 23, 2010
	83%	Me, Too (Yo, tambien) (2010)	" The film powerfully hits the note of universalism that is its goal; haven't many of us fallen for someone that we, they, and the world deem out of our league?" — Village Voice Posted Nov 16, 2010
	80%	Nothing Personal (2010)	" The whole thing is a pleasure to watch, though, because Verbeek and Rea telegraph volumes of subtext beneath the dialogue they're given, speaking to the human need for emotional and physical contact -- and the fear of the responsibilities and costs." — Village Voice Posted Nov 16, 2010
	55%	Shake Hands with the Devil (2010)	" Though the film, based on Dallaire's memoir, can veer toward deification of the general, it's hugely effective in illustrating the grotesque power plays that led to the deaths of more than 800,000 Tutsis." — Village Voice Posted Nov 9, 2010
	80%	Ticked-off Trannies With Knives (2010)	" There's a good bad movie buried in here; it flickers intermittently." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 21, 2010

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