Ernest Hardy

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Film.com, L.A. Weekly, Village Voice
For 601 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ernest Hardy's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 Vanishing Pearls: The Oystermen of Pointe a la Hache
Lowest review score: 0 3000 Miles to Graceland
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 287 out of 601
  2. Mixed: 199 out of 601
  3. Negative: 115 out of 601
601 movie reviews
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
    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. Long before it ends, you find yourself indifferent to the fate of the mismatched lovebirds or anyone else in the tale.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Ernest Hardy
    La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus
    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, thoughts that sound like outtakes from a TED Talk on the interconnectedness of all living things.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    The Odd Life of Timothy Green
    What follows is a film as odd as its title character. Timothy flings grown-up ideas at the viewer but rips the teeth from them rather than risk our discomfort.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Ernest Hardy
    Autumn Tale
    Remind(s) us of the power of good old-fashioned character-driven movies.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    The Little Vampire
    For adults, the film will drag in spots, but it's filled with all those values you hope to instill in your children.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Ernest Hardy
    The Big Fix
    The film's scope is staggering, including its detailed outlining of BP's origins and fingerprints across decades of unrest in Iran.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    America So Beautiful
    The film staggers under its own didacticism. Too often we're told of men who were professionals back home and are here reduced to driving cabs, waiting tables or vending ice cream.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    Spiral
    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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Ernest Hardy
    Shadow of the Vampire
    If only this movie were rich enough, strong enough to be worthy of this (Dafoe's) performance.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    The Komediant
    Slight but enjoyable documentary.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    The Tempest
    The film lacks a pulse. There's sound and fury, but the result is more drizzle than tempest.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    The Virgin Suicides
    Sofia Coppola, who's directed the film from her own screenplay, narrowly misses making the story work on the screen.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    A gorgeously burnished vintage post card come to life, Motorcycle Diaries has about as much depth and emotional currency as the cardboard that post card would be stamped on.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    Graceland
    Striking the right balance between interior and exterior can mean the difference between compelling drama and accidental melodrama. Writer-director Ron Morales just misses equilibrium in the visually arresting Filipino thriller Graceland.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Ernest Hardy
    Joe Gould's Secret
    Drags on far too long.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Ernest Hardy
    Wonder Boys
    For those seeking even a little adventurousness in their filmgoing experiences, the movie will wear thin very quickly.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    Cuban Rafters
    What's fresh for these people is, frankly, old news for anyone who has seen even one or two documentaries on similar subject matter.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    Imaginary Heroes
    This schizophrenic mess zigzags all over the place, trying to figure out whether it's a dysfunctional-family drama, a slapstick comedy or an angst-ridden coming-of-age movie.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    The Great Invisible
    Unfortunately, given both its content and the media's collective failure to fully report the (ongoing) story, the film only intermittently has a pulse.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    Bringing Out the Dead
    We don't really care about this everyman's moral dilemna and spiritual crisis because -- for all the poetic insights he offers in his philosophical voice-over -- he never transcends the details to become an engrossing character.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Ernest Hardy
    Journey to the Sun
    Ustaoglu has made Mehmet unbelievably naive -- and the hardships piled upon him unintentionally evoke "The Perils of Pauline." That dilutes what should be a powerful protest film, and robs it of the emotional impact it aims for.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Ernest Hardy
    Waking Ned Devine
    Writer-director Kirk Jones has the movie roll over, fetch and chase its own tail in order to make you love it.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    Preggoland
    There's satiric comedy to be mined from the conflicting messages society still sends about pregnancy, motherhood, and women's worth, but the script isn't smart enough to explore them.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    Blood Brother
    There are undoubtedly several moving moments in the film, and the kids are gorgeous and heartbreaking, but none of that is strong enough to balance Braat's galling and enabled narcissism, which pervades the film.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    Crazy as Hell
    It could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened. As it is, only LaSalle's sizzling performance makes Crazy more than a by-the-numbers psycho-horror thriller.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    The Boys of Baraka
    The kids absolutely win your heart, but there's something off-putting in the film's lazy juxtaposition of unexamined Negro dysfunction tropes (absent fathers, violent streets) against an idyllic Africa tended by white benevolence.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    Hamlet
    Hamlet, like its title character, is a mopey, dopey thing that you just want to scream at: Do something!
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    The Cup
    Too slow-moving and too understated in much of its humor.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    Thirteen
    More than once, while watching the film, I thought: The camera should really just turn away from those grating teen brats and follow the mom (Holly Hunter).
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    The film won't likely change any minds, but there's a taut political essay beneath the blatant campaigning.
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