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Ernest Hardy

Ernest Hardy

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:
Film.com , L.A. Weekly , Village Voice
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
392

Worst Reviewed Films

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58% Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4) (2010) " By the middle of the second act, Forever After finally finds its groove, becoming mildly amusing (the actors -- Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas -- are in fine form) but never rising to the inspired heights of the original." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 7, 2010
58% Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4) (2010) " It takes the film a deadly long time to kick in, and when it does, it largely retreads formula: ironic use of pop standards, musical numbers with contemporary choreography played for maximum laughs, risque one-liners." — Village Voice
Posted May 18, 2010
—— Manuela y Manuel (2010) " Overstuffed with crudely drawn, broadly acted secondary characters (and tricked out with flat drag musical numbers), Manuela aspires to be about love, friendship, and good hearts triumphing. But it's actually a grim reminder that formulaic queer cinema is" — Village Voice
Posted Mar 24, 2010
0% The Killing Jar (2010) " The film has no pulse and feels interminable, with its stilted dialogue, static staging, and usually fine actors who are horrendous here." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 16, 2010
75% Tales From the Script (2010) " One of Tales' strongest points is made accidentally: Its huge cast of interviewees consists of one Asian speaker, one Latino, three African-Americans, and five women - one of whom pulls double-duty as a woman of color." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 9, 2010
34% The Wolfman (2010) " Benicio Del Toro stars in this lushly art-designed 19th-century period film, but his beefcake-gone-bad magnetism is not enough to justify sitting through a movie that's full of sound, fury and unintentional camp -- and is still bafflingly inert." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 12, 2010
20% Legion (2010) " The down time between action scenes is deadly dull and the film's hoary cinematic shorthand (i.e., a young Black man enters the film to the sound of hip-hop and fights with his baby mama) is more terrifying than anything else served up." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 27, 2010
36% Bitch Slap (2010) " The latest proof that calculated camp in the form of homage is nearly impossible to pull off." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 8, 2010
—— Across The Hall (2009) " . Merkin tries too hard for stylistic flourishes (as the hyper set-designed, claustrophobically seedy hotel underscores) and winds up almost sinking the noir-ish tale he's telling." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 3, 2009
—— Make the Yuletide Gay (2009) " It's old news that American queer cinema is splintered between movies with serious artistic and intellectual aspirations and those which, like the bulk of contemporary pop culture, are aggressively mediocre." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 29, 2009
18% Stan Helsing (2009) " The generically attractive young cast gamely tries to pump life into the script, to no avail." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 22, 2009
—— Orgies and the Meaning of Life (2009) " ialogue ranges from exposition-heavy to cutesy, while the performances are little better." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 27, 2009
0% Dim Sum Funeral (2008) " Director Anna Chi's Chinese-American family drama, from a screenplay by Donald Martin, is ambitious in scope and banal in execution." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 11, 2009
38% The Art of Being Straight (2008) " The psychologically flat script isn't nearly up to the task of depicting the pleasure within confusion/despair (or vice versa); neither are Rosen's acting chops." — Village Voice
Posted Jun 3, 2009
—— Chasing the Green (2009) " Your average newscast these days far outstrips Chasing the Green for high-stakes drama and corporate intrigue." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 17, 2009
44% Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009) " A brightly colored yet cheap-looking affair." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 9, 2009
12% Pink Panther 2 (2009) " Until that storied team comes together, the film is a dreary checklist of pratfalls, wan double entendres, and frantic, unfunny set pieces." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 5, 2009
68% Cadillac Records (2008) " Darnell Martin races through the script's bullet points with a brisk superficiality that leaves crucial plot points underdeveloped and unresolved, and refuses to engage the dark side of Leonard Chess' paternalism." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 4, 2008
—— Bohica (2008) " It's not art or artfully rendered, and nothing they're saying is news. Still, it is good to see [star Brendan] Sexton again." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 13, 2008
44% Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom (2008) " While there are some solid chuckles scattered throughout the film, Polk's heavy-handed political sloganeering is lifted straight from pamphlets, while his character development and plotting are clumsy and filled with holes." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 23, 2008
44% The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela (2008) " The amazing truth about Queen Raquela is that she's constructed from clichés." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 26, 2008
—— The Poet (Hearts of War) (2009) " The audience is herded from cliché to unintentional farce to insult-to-its-intelligence." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 5, 2008
30% Young Yakuza (2008) " Never delivers either the thrill of its underworld setting or much insight into its complicated workings." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 3, 2008
—— Just Add Water (2007) " Walsh nearly redeems the whole thing: His eyes flicker with an intelligence that isn't in the script, and he graces his character with layers of inner life in a film that coasts on surfaces." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 27, 2008
50% Spiral (2007) " It's a wit-free homage to Hitchcock and M. Night Shyamalan that, for all its slick presentation, never comes close to hitting the mark of its forebears." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 7, 2008
67% Naked Boys Singing (2007) " Few of the songs, which range from gleefully raunchy to gratingly sentimental, are truly memorable." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 18, 2007
—— The Dead One (2007) " Dead One never generates either the fear or just tension that it intends with its portentous music, religious iconography and meant-to-be-creepy voice-overs." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 13, 2007
22% 7 días (2007) " U2, notoriously tight with the rights to their music and image, were reportedly so impressed by the script that they allowed their music and some concert footage to be used for very cheap. They got gypped." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 16, 2007
36% Descent (2007) " A well-acted trifle straining to be a hard-hitting morality play." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 7, 2007
71% Boy Culture (2007) " A film made by people just smart enough to acknowledge that the tropes of modern queer filmmaking have been reduced to cliché, but who themselves lack the courage to push beyond tried-and-true box-office formulas." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 22, 2007
—— Maple Palm (2006) " Takes a hot-button issue (here, it's homophobic U.S. immigration policies) and reduces it to dry sloganeering and shameless emotional manipulation of the audience." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 9, 2006
13% Shottas (2006) " Shottas, based on a true story, has been sitting on shelves for a few years now, accruing mythology as a great film that's been unjustly sidelined. That, it is not. [It's] wretched." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 2, 2006
48% Idlewild (2006) " The film only rarely harnesses the power of the anachronistic, funk-driven, beat-heavy rap music that swells its soundtrack." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 24, 2006
26% Poster Boy (2006) " The tale is unnecessarily fractured and becomes increasingly didactic as it collapses into a mess of shrill big-screen activism and smugly relayed leftist ideals." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 10, 2006
4% The Celestine Prophecy (2006) " The Celestine Prophecy Movie never transcends either the look or the feel of a cult recruitment film crossed with a Christian-network infomercial." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Jul 20, 2006
—— I Know I Am Not Alone (2005) " [Franti's] unreflective, narcissistic humanitarianism is straight out of an old SCTV skit." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Jul 13, 2006
26% The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2006) " It's a dud." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 15, 2006
25% The Conrad Boys (2006) " Churlish though it seems to throw daggers at this clearly heartfelt but insipid drama, the naiveté quickly becomes exasperating." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 1, 2006
6% Hate Crime (2005) " The film never rises above its cry now-avenge later Lifetime Channel sensibilities." — L.A. Weekly
Posted May 18, 2006
29% Silent Hill (2006) " Sharon vanishes and Rose sets about finding her daughter in the not-quite deserted town, where ash falls from the sky and every setting looks like a back-lot or soundstage." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 21, 2006
—— Angel Blade () " David Heavener's pseudo-sordid, cliché-addled erotic thriller is too yawningly lame to even stoke a good feminist outrage." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 20, 2006
50% 24 Hours on Craigslist (2004) " Intermittently amusing, rarely illuminating and ultimately tedious documentary." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 6, 2006
93% On the Outs (2005) " Well-meaning but mediocre." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 19, 2006
17% Blackmail Boy (Oxygono) (2004) " It's a mean-spirited exercise in stilted outrageousness." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 5, 2006
61% 39 Pounds of Love (2005) " Despite Menkin's clear belief that he's crafted a rousing true-life drama, his film plays like a cliché-ridden, painfully self-conscious Hollywood melodrama about a noble person with disabilities." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 1, 2005
43% Sueño (2005) " Though the film is crammed with music -- the soundtrack is stellar -- the production numbers fall completely flat, leaving you to pine for the over-caffeinated touch of Baz Luhrmann." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 29, 2005
29% Walking on the Sky (2005) " It's to be hoped that by his next film, his director's gift won't be shortchanged by the writer in him mistaking psychological complexity for acting-school exercises." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 15, 2005
6% Underclassman (2005) " The script, by David T. Wagner and Brent Goldberg, is breathtakingly bad." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 1, 2005
38% Margaret Cho: Assassin (2005) " This concert film of her most recent comedy tour, the Assassin Show, is painfully bereft of wit or cogent insight." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 1, 2005
39% Milwaukee Minnesota (2003) " More predictable than its makers seem aware, its emotional hooks much too dull to pull us in." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 4, 2005
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