Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

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L.A. Weekly
For 175 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Hazel-Dawn Dumpert's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 55
Highest review score: 100 Finding Nemo
Lowest review score: 0 Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 175
  2. Mixed: 78 out of 175
  3. Negative: 29 out of 175
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    • 21 Metascore
    • 20 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
    It's noisy, it's flashy, and it's deadly dull -- without the goofball, horror-nerd energy of Kevin Williamson, who wrote the first film, this essentially storyless picture, written by Trey Callaway and directed by Danny Gan-non, revolves doggedly around Hewitt's tits.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The Flip Side
    An intriguing failure that promises more than it delivers.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    Directed by Donald Petrie ("Miss Congeniality") with about as much substance and style as a ham sandwich. It's a heavy hand that damps down such airy creatures as Hudson and McConaughey.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 20 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The Suburbans
    Tiresome vanity project.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Sweet Home Alabama
    To call the film contrived would imply that some sort of effort had been made, when Sweet Home Alabama is nothing but dead lazy and slow — y'all.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Gone in Sixty Seconds
    Written in 60 Seconds would be a more appropriate title.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    This Old Cub
    Won't be of much value to anyone besides die-hard Cubs fans or the Santo family itself.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Blast from the Past
    A flimsy premise to begin with, it’s been punctured beyond repair by an amateur script from Bill Kelly and director Hugh Wilson (The First Wives Club), and by Wilson’s shocking ineptitude with dialogue, framing and pace.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 10 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Lucky Numbers
    Airless, joyless, worse than you could even imagine.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Me Myself I
    It's bad enough that Australian writer-director Pip Karmel feels she must attempt the alternate-reality gimmick.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 0 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Beautiful Creatures
    Could it get any worse?
    • 26 Metascore
    • 10 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Phantoms
    Since neither (Chapelle nor Koontz) seems to have any idea as to how to make an actual movie, they abandon form and reason and throw every stock trick in the book at the screen to see what sticks. And what sticks is the murky goo of storytelling gone bad.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    South of Heaven, West of Hell
    Oxymoronic musings of a vain country singer.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Mercy Streets
    Writer-director Jon Gunn and co-writer John W. Mann can't fashion a meaningful parable from their knot of dangling plotlines and absurd scenarios.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Love the Hard Way
    Long-shelved 2001 clunker.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 10 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The Weekend
    Shrill and gloomy.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The Experiment
    Too much of a mess to say anything with assurance, pieced together as it is from mismatched institutional movies such as "Cool Hand Luke" and "Shock Corridor" -- with "Lord of the Flies" thrown in for good measure -- and turning on plot points that simply don't wash.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Lost Souls
    While Kaminski understands that movie terror comes in at the eyes, he has little skill for connecting sensation to hearts and minds.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 10 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Coyote Ugly
    A work of top-shelf schlock.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    What Boys Like
    And like, the movie's got all these bright colors and shit, so it's not some fuckin' boring art film, and the new wave soundtrack is awesome.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Dark Blue World
    The uneasy meeting of cultures is mirrored all too well in the stiff and clumsy direction.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    This new feature has replaced the original's benevolence, taste and wit with cynicism, armpit humor and manic, desperately unfunny padding.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Dust
    Whatever ghost-story intrigue the film musters gives way to a tedious cycle of fighting, screwing, shouting and storytelling stuck together by two hours worth of hard-boiled dialogue gone gummy.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Sweet November
    This feeble remake offers little more than two pretty and willing leads who nonetheless can't hide their embarrassment over being set up as distractions to hide the film's thorough lack of coherence and appeal.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 0 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
    It's cynical and it's depressing, and I would lock a child in a room before I'd show him Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Wisconsin Death Trip
    What could have been a fascinating exploration of geographical mayhem becomes instead an exercise in tedium.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 20 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Mr. Deeds
    Sandler is -- à la "The Wedding Singer" -- in his washout romantic mode here, and no amount of spastic-colon jokes, cartoon violence or good-buddy cameos (Al Sharpton, John McEnroe) can distract from the fact that Gary Cooper he ain't.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    High Heels and Low Lifes
    Director Mel Smith (Bean) struggles to make up for the lack, clumsily juggling screwball dames and criminal elements, and trying to disguise the film's marked lack of vitality with split-screen tricks, jokey camera angles and a limp musical montage.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 10 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Blow Dry
    There are gruelingly unfunny gags, an unspeakable soundtrack featuring BTO and Billy Ocean, and Victoria's Secret mannequin Heidi Klum as a model who demands that her pussy hair be styled into a bushy red heart.

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