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
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    The King Is Alive
    The tedium of the situation is felt by the audience, but too often in the wrong way: We don't empathize so much as suffer through the movie.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    Hannah Montana: The Movie
    It's almost foolish to review Hannah Montana: The Movie as anything other than the latest cog in a cultural phenomenon/mass-marketing juggernaut. The film itself certainly doesn't aspire to anything more.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    Mr 3000
    Mr. 3000, which starts out promisingly, squanders Mac's natural gift of salty gruffness by shoehorning him into a dull, heartwarming cinematic lesson on humility and the joys of teamwork.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Ernest Hardy
    The Town Is Quiet
    Leaves you reeling from the force of the humanity it captures and -- in its own gut-wrenching way -- honors.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Ernest Hardy
    Velvet Goldmine
    Writer-director Todd Haynes (Safe, Poison) still makes movies like a first-time filmmaker afraid he won't get another chance; he crams every idea, every image ever dreamed, onscreen.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Ernest Hardy
    Show Me Love
    Show Me Love has the pulse of teen life down-pat, shaming its many sleek and glossy American counterparts at every turn.
    • Film.com
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Ernest Hardy
    The Blair Witch Project
    It's a small film whose power is derived from its stripped-down scale.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Ernest Hardy
    Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    A heartfelt documentary.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 10 Ernest Hardy
    Turn It Up
    Flawed at its very core.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Ernest Hardy
    The Claim
    A sleeper that's well worth hunting down. Its rewards sneak up on you, but then linger long afterwards.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Ernest Hardy
    Biggie and Tupac
    Deceptively rambling, shrewdly ragtag documentary.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Ernest Hardy
    K-PAX
    Manipulative, feel-good drivel wrapped around a cloying performance by Kevin Spacey.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    This look at the assorted struggles of modern hetero coupledom gives off a distinctly moldy aroma.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Ernest Hardy
    3 Dancing Slaves
    Stylish, beautifully shot film.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    Frequency
    Disappointingly dumb.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
    It’s amusing, but it also eventually becomes tedious, like a comedy sketch that milks a good joke just a little too long.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    Trouble Every Day
    A taut mess -- beautiful, gory, tedious and puzzling.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    Fast Food Fast Women
    The film's power lies in the fact that the façade is crumbling on the actress even as she clings to it. That this is not a pathetic sight is due to the grit that we glimpse through the cracks. It's Barbie, becoming human.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    D.E.B.S.
    Doesn't live up to its genre-crossing, parodic ambitions.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Ernest Hardy
    Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    The jokes fly so furiously that it'd be impossible for a single weak performance (Graham) to unravel this very funny film.
    • Film.com
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Ernest Hardy
    Women Without Men
    Neshat employs dialogue that is often didactic, but that weakness is forgiven in the face of stellar acting from the ensemble and gorgeously composed and shot images.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Ernest Hardy
    Nurse Betty
    There's a shrewd satiric method to LaBute's madness, and a payoff in comedic gold.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Ernest Hardy
    Urbania
    The story of what happens when everything dies but love. It's a simple story, artfully told.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Ernest Hardy
    Hideaway (Le refuge)
    Though the psychological layering and thematic ambition of the screenplay do not quite result in the depth intended, Hideaway's unsentimental performances will hook you.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    Me Myself I
    Though the film is generally weak, treading very familiar ground, those dashes of insight and humor - along with Griffiths' performance - pull you into the film.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Ernest Hardy
    Drift
    Like "Run Lola Run," Drift circles back on itself to present a trio of possible outcomes, but it's R.T. Lee's sterling performance that rivets.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Ernest Hardy
    What's Cooking?
    Hopefully, the next time around, Chadha's imagination will be in the service of not just excellent casting and directing, but a script to match those other cinematic components.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Ernest Hardy
    Flawless
    An appallingly crude film, with dialogue lifted off bumper stickers, characters stitched together from shorthand clichés (the brassy black drag queen; the fiery little Latin number) and a plot that's on cruise control from the opening credits.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Ernest Hardy
    Sueño
    Chabria lacks the effervescent touch, in both his clichéd, logic-challenged writing and his leaden direction, to make you care. 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.
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