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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:
453

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—— Bridegroom (2013) " A gripping documentary that pivots on brutal familial homophobia ..." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 1, 2013
18% Baggage Claim (2013) " Enough to make Black Jesus weep in despair at the failure of filmmaking fundamentals." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 24, 2013
75% Generation Iron (2013) " A gorgeous meditation on age-old existential concerns." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 17, 2013
14% The Colony (2013) " It's decently acted, delivers some well-executed jolts, doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence, and is mercifully free of ironic distance." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 17, 2013
56% My Lucky Star (2013) " Being successful involves knowing that light doesn't equal stupid, and discerning between formula and formulaic. Neither director Dennie Gordon nor the four credited screenwriters of My Lucky Star seem able to make those distinctions." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 17, 2013
53% The Muslims Are Coming (2013) " It's an inarguably noble undertaking, one that's unfortunately timely, but the film often feels like a profane PSA." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 17, 2013
58% GMO OMG (2013) " A documentary that is by turns exasperating, illuminating, and intentionally infuriating." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 10, 2013
88% Informant (2013) " Informant is riveting as it slowly assembles a damning profile of its subject. It's also timely." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 10, 2013
78% Good Ol' Freda (2013) " A surprisingly satisfying and moving experience." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 10, 2013
100% Best Kept Secret (2013) " The real star is teacher Janet Mino, whose advocacy for her kids goes above and beyond." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 9, 2013
96% I Am Breathing (2013) " Platt and his story are inherently moving, and co-directors Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon wisely employ a light, unobtrusive touch as their camera captures the erosion of Platt's health." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 9, 2013
13% The Lifeguard (2013) " From concept to execution to tone, writer-director Liz W. Garcia's The Lifeguard is a lifeless misfire." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 27, 2013
38% Dark Tourist (2013) " Griffith can break your heart as a good woman staggering under the weight of life, especially after her character places her last bit of faith in a dangerously damaged man." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 27, 2013
69% The Happy Sad (2013) " The cast is terrific-a uniformly perfect combination of eye candy and talent-and the script is filled with wonderfully raw, discomfiting conversations ..." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 13, 2013
57% When Comedy Went to School (2013) " This enchanting documentary on the rise, fall, and small-scale rebirth of the Catskills has something of a fairy tale quality." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 29, 2013
0% Stranded (2013) " Trite dialogue, stock characters, and bad-to-middling special effects make Stranded more tedious than scary or nerve-wracking." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 23, 2013
6% Evidence (2013) " The film isn't as smart as it thinks it is, and its characters are painfully generic." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 16, 2013
100% Big Words (2013) " Full of ideas on art, politics, relationships, and the construction of identity, it's that rare film in which black characters aren't amped-up caricatures." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 16, 2013
60% Assaulted: CIVIL Rights Under Fire (2013) " A surprisingly thoughtful, well-researched attempt to give both sides of the argument respect while illuminating the long history of tensions surrounding gun ownership in America." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 10, 2013
72% How To Make Money Selling Drugs (2013) " It's a smart, funny, tough-minded film crammed with data and personal anecdotes ..." — Village Voice
Posted Jun 25, 2013
40% The Secret Disco Revolution (2013) " The film isn't as smart on the issue of race as it needs to be, and its feminist read of the music and scene feels forced in places, but as an entry-level conversation starter, it gets the job done." — Village Voice
Posted Jun 25, 2013
60% Assaulted: CIVIL Rights Under Fire (2013) " While the film leans more heavily toward pro-gun ownership, finessing that position with a nod toward left-leaning politics, its real purpose is to bring some historical perspective to the argument, to move the conversation beyond emotion-based rhetoric." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Jun 21, 2013
64% Unfinished Song (2013) " Williams uses a sledgehammer to drive [his] message home, but the velvet touch of his cast (particularly Redgrave) almost salvages this." — Village Voice
Posted Jun 18, 2013
97% Call Me Kuchu (2013) " Equally gut-wrenching and inspiring, the documentary Call Me Kuchu beams right from Uganda, the global hypocenter in the ongoing and intensifying struggle over LGBT rights." — Village Voice
Posted Jun 11, 2013
99% 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) " An exquisitely rendered look at the dialectics of celebrity and artistry, luck and hard work, its conversation laced with smart observations about race and gender." — Village Voice
Posted Jun 11, 2013
82% Dirty Wars (2013) " Dirty Wars is essential viewing for anyone who wants to know how we wage war right now; it's also a chilling prologue for what's likely a global future of endless war and blowback." — Village Voice
Posted Jun 4, 2013
100% La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus (2013) " This is powerful reportage, beautifully shot and gracefully laid out; too bad that Kendall ties it all up with more deep thoughts from the bus itself..." — Village Voice
Posted May 28, 2013
20% I Do (2013) " Ross's on-the-nose script offers little subtext or nuance, and the film-for all the inherent drama of the situation-has very little real-life grit." — Village Voice
Posted May 28, 2013
76% Augustine (2013) " The film is something of a paradox, simultaneously passionate and dispassionate, its ending tethered to both bruised triumph and a sense of things falling apart." — Village Voice
Posted May 14, 2013
—— Valentino's Ghost (2013) " A crash course in history, politics, and social science, Valentino's Ghost is both sobering and illuminating, and its execution is thrilling." — Village Voice
Posted May 14, 2013
100% Khyi rgan (Old Dog) () " Old Dog has the look and feel of a documentary, which adds senses of urgency and immediacy to a tale that moves at a languid, but never boring, pace." — Village Voice
Posted May 14, 2013
77% Venus And Serena (2013) " The film works best as a primer, as it would take a miniseries to do justice to all that the sisters have accomplished in the face of obvious obstacles and naked double standards." — Village Voice
Posted May 7, 2013
84% An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty (2013) " What saves the film-and grandly-is Nance's wildly ambitious visual imagination." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 28, 2013
85% Graceland (2013) " Writer-director Ron Morales just misses equilibrium in the visually arresting Filipino thriller Graceland." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2013
60% War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013) " Accessible without sacrificing nuance or intelligence." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 16, 2013
100% This Ain't California (2013) " Martin Persiel's splendid "documentary" could well be subtitled "And It Ain't the Truth."" — Village Voice
Posted Apr 9, 2013
—— Tattoo Nation (2013) " The images of the style as it evolves, and especially those that fill the last 15 minutes of Tattoo, are so beautiful and often majestic that they overshadow the film's small shortcomings." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 3, 2013
92% Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013) " Prisoners is captivating from start to finish." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 3, 2013
100% Rescue in the Philippines (2013) " A well-crafted if structurally generic documentary ..." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 26, 2013
—— Better Mus Come (2013) " A gorgeous (if at times overripe) melodrama set during the deadly political unrest of late-'70s Jamaica." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 12, 2013
65% Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey (2013) " It's a moving tale made more so because even after he's "won," Pineda maintains a clear-eyed pragmatism about what living a fairy tale costs." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2013
31% Language of a Broken Heart (2013) " Today's romantic comedies may be the most dire product being rolled off American filmmaking assembly lines." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2013
83% Genius On Hold (2013) " A far-reaching narrative of government venality and big-business greed that's all mapped succinctly but substantively." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 26, 2013
60% Rubberneck (2013) " Unsettling [and] tough-minded ..." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 19, 2013
17% Brief Reunion (2013) " [A] well-acted but rather slack drama ..." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 15, 2013
33% Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (2012) " The costumes are gorgeous, and the settings are plush, but the acting is merely serviceable, and the film lacks either the wit or the energy of its predecessors." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 4, 2012
—— The King (2012) " Beautifully shot, the film is unapologetically a crowd-pleaser whose gentleness of tone flows from its subject." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 20, 2012
68% Barrymore (2012) " A wistful look at faded dreams and opportunities lost due to both the vagaries of the business and self-sabotage." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2012
100% Lunch (2012) " The appeal of Lunch might be limited to Hollywood-nostalgia buffs, but they will be enthralled not only by the stories told, but also how they're told. These guys are still some of the sharpest wits in town." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 7, 2012
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