Pete Vonder Haar

Pete Vonder Haar

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications:
Film Threat , Houston Press
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
536
Total QuickRatings:
38
Location:
Houston, TX

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
18% 1st Night (2013) " It's hard to explain why every character in 1st Night behaves like an adolescent in a sitcom." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2013
83% Desperate Acts Of Magic (2013) " Desperate Acts of Magic is a pleasant little film." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2013
3/5 56% Oblivion (2013) " "The dream is always the same."" — Houston Press
Posted Apr 28, 2013
3/5 46% Pain & Gain (2013) " Bay could've paid for Pain & Gain with the spare hundreds he keeps around for cocaine straws." — Houston Press
Posted Apr 28, 2013
3.5/5 68% Trance (2013) " Trance isn't the director's best by a long shot, but it's a perfectly serviceable thriller with all Boyle's trademark flourishes." — Houston Press
Posted Apr 14, 2013
8% Tomorrow You're Gone (2013) " It's almost as if Jacobson and writer Matthew F. Jones changed their minds at the last minute, leaving us all in the lurch." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 3, 2013
2.5/5 28% G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) " If you went back to 1984 and told me there would be a serious production about toys called "Destro" and "Ripcord," I'd have asked you when lobotomies became mandatory." — Houston Press
Posted Mar 30, 2013
2/5 39% The Call (2013) " Shocking, I know, to think the writer of Thir13en Ghosts and Exit Wounds may not have been up to the task of crafting a fully realized narrative. " — Houston Press
Posted Mar 23, 2013
1/5 48% Olympus Has Fallen (2013) " Olympus Has Fallen wants to be "Die Hard in the White House" so much I half-expected Alexander Godunov to pop up at the end." — Houston Press
Posted Mar 23, 2013
56% Hunky Dory (2013) " Surprisingly, it's not bad." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 19, 2013
3.5/5 60% Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) " Oz the Great and Powerful is perfectly adequate for kids and people who don't believe every trip down cinema's memory lane amounts to sodomy of their childhood." — Houston Press
Posted Mar 9, 2013
71% Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) " [It] shines a harsh light on the lengths the energy industry continues to go to in order to head off climate-related legislation-and assure the public there's nothing wrong with continuing to rely on fossil fuels." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 5, 2013
2.5/5 58% Snitch (2013) " The scene where Matthews searches for "cartels" on Wikipedia is as (unintentionally) hilarious as Michael Bolton looking up "money laundering" in the dictionary." — Houston Press
Posted Mar 2, 2013
3/5 52% Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) " Tomlinson wears a suit of armor well, but as long as we're reimagining the classics, why not give the Princess more to do that run away from home and await rescue?" — Houston Press
Posted Mar 2, 2013
47% The Sweeney (2013) " [It] feels a lot like an American-made cop movie circa 1990." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 1, 2013
19% Inescapable (2013) " Inescapable isn't a terrible movie, but absent its ripped-from-the-headlines setting it's unremarkable." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 19, 2013
2/5 15% A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) " Over the course of 25 years and four ensuing movies, we've gone from mild eye-rolling to goggling incredulity." — Houston Press
Posted Feb 16, 2013
2.5/5 45% Beautiful Creatures (2013) " I'd enjoy listening to Emma Thompson even if she was reading me my list of offenses against the Crown while the Royal Buggerer oiled up his Punishment Phallus." — Houston Press
Posted Feb 16, 2013
4/5 80% Warm Bodies (2013) " It kind of reminded me of Twilight, if that movie had an engaging cast, intelligent script, coherent story, and didn't make me want to eat a bullet." — Houston Press
Posted Feb 3, 2013
3/5 14% Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) " I counted at least six occasions when Renner could've led with, "This ... is my BOOM STICK."" — Houston Press
Posted Jan 27, 2013
1.5/5 30% Broken City (2013) " At no point during the film was there a shred of doubt in my mind about where things would end up." — Houston Press
Posted Jan 19, 2013
3/5 59% The Last Stand (2013) " But you can't let yourself get hung up on, you know, *logic* and *facts* and *police procedures* and *why a guy named "Owens" is speaking in a guttural Austrian accent*" — Houston Press
Posted Jan 19, 2013
4.5/5 93% Zero Dark Thirty (2013) " "We always get our man, eventually."" — Houston Press
Posted Jan 12, 2013
2.5/5 69% Not Fade Away (2012) " I don't mean to belittle the memory of an entire decade, except when I do." — Houston Press
Posted Jan 5, 2013
19% Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013) " Try as [Luessenhop] might to honor the original -- flashbulb transitions, a skeevy (yet buff) hitchhiker, metal doors, and meat hooks -- there's little of its mounting dread." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 5, 2013
2/5 52% This is 40 (2012) " "Hey, remember that annoying couple in that Judd Apatow movie about the loser who got the hot chick pregnant? No? Well, we made a movie about them anyway."" — Houston Press
Posted Dec 28, 2012
3.5/5 61% Jack Reacher (2012) " I know I'm not the only one who appreciates a lack of ambiguity when watching a dude get his testicles crushed." — Houston Press
Posted Dec 28, 2012
4/5 70% Les Misérables (2012) " The songs you expect Javert to knock out of the park end up - at best - bloop singles with Crowe's limited range." — Houston Press
Posted Dec 28, 2012
2.5/5 66% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) " I prefer my movies to be more entertainment than ordeal." — Houston Press
Posted Dec 15, 2012
43% Waiting For Lightning (2012) " Pretty boilerplate doc material." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 4, 2012
50% In Our Nature (2012) " During their "getting to know you" scene, Seth asks Vicky, "Is everybody that predictable?" As far as In Our Nature goes, it would seem so." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 4, 2012
4/5 76% Killing Them Softly (2012) " So this is our fate, it seems: the endless bureaucratization of every aspect of life, even down to the illegal." — Houston Press
Posted Dec 1, 2012
1.5/5 13% Red Dawn (2012) " "When they came for the grunge enthusiasts, I said nothing..."" — Houston Press
Posted Nov 21, 2012
2.5/5 48% The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) " If you removed the endless soulful gazes, this whole series could've been delivered as a two-night SyFy Channel exclusive and wrapped up before the next airing of Sharktopus." — Houston Press
Posted Nov 17, 2012
3/5 92% Skyfall (2012) " I wanted to like Skyfall more than I did, which is funny because after the opening sequence, I felt sure I would love it." — Houston Press
Posted Nov 11, 2012
3.5/5 89% Lincoln (2012) " I honestly don't know how audiences are going to respond to what is essentially 2.5 hours of speechifying bookended by brief scenes of wartime atrocity." — Houston Press
Posted Nov 11, 2012
2/5 79% Flight (2012) " Alcoholism remains a serious problem, but it's hard to take seriously when Zemeckis and Gatis have drenched their story in such rank sentimentalism." — Houston Press
Posted Nov 3, 2012
3.5/5 68% Cloud Atlas (2012) " This won't come across as a knock to some, but there are times when Cloud Atlas feels like a sci-fi Love, Actually." — Houston Press
Posted Oct 28, 2012
4.5/5 96% Argo (2012) " Anyone who thinks the cheesiness of the proposed Argo's plot and shameless aping of A New Hope is far-fetched has obviously never seen Battle Beyond the Stars." — Houston Press
Posted Oct 14, 2012
1/5 21% Taken 2 (2012) " Jaws: The Revenge, with Albanians." — Houston Press
Posted Oct 7, 2012
4/5 99% Finding Nemo 3D (2012) " Gill is Platoon's Sgt. Elias if he'd survived Sgt. Barnes' treachery and returned to civilian life weary and hard-bitten from his experiences. And also a fish." — Houston Press
Posted Sep 29, 2012
4/5 86% The Master (2012) " It ain't exactly uplifting, and The Master will frustrate some with it's almost deliberate avoidance of resolution." — Houston Press
Posted Sep 29, 2012
2/5 51% Trouble with the Curve (2012) " I believe the term "Matthew Lillard" is also used in most reference works to denote any hyper-aggravating person whom you'd like to punch repeatedly in the kidneys." — Houston Press
Posted Sep 29, 2012
88% The Other Dream Team (2012) " I fully expect The Other Dream Team to join Do You Believe in Miracles? and Undefeated in your inspirational-sports-doc rotation." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 25, 2012
3/5 64% Cosmopolis (2012) " For all the doomsday build-up we get in the first 90 minutes, Packer's primary antagonist turns out to be such a mundane construct you can't help but feel crestfallen." — Houston Press
Posted Sep 8, 2012
1/5 22% The Words (2012) " Let's be honest, Cooper's at his best when playing a jagoff. He's like Bradley Whitford in that respect (maybe it's just the name "Bradley"). " — Houston Press
Posted Sep 8, 2012
2/5 76% Premium Rush (2012) " Shannon should have made Roscoe P. Coltrane noises the whole time." — Houston Press
Posted Aug 25, 2012
4/5 87% ParaNorman (2012) " I appreciate any flick that so capably merges survival horror with throwbacks to '50s B-movies." — Houston Press
Posted Aug 21, 2012
3.5/5 77% Killer Joe (2012) " A little slice of Southern Gothic is just what the back room doctor ordered in this summer of explodey superhero movies." — Houston Press
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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