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 11.1 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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    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Anatomy 2
    German filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky sticks to the formula that made his 2000 thriller “Anatomie” a German hit, offering up a who’s who of young German stars and plunging them into hot-and-cold color schemes, freewheeling camera work and diabolical master-race conspiracies. If Ruzowitzky were as good a storyteller as he is a stylist, he’d have something.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Where's Marlowe?
    (Ferrer's) performance as the sensitive private dick borders on beatific as he stumbles about a nighttime Hollywood Boulevard waxing lyrical about "love, sex and betrayal."
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The Turandot Project
    For a film hinged on one of the more passionate art forms, it's all a little bloodless.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    What's Cooking?
    Despite some grace- ful performances, especially from Ruehl and Kazan, the result is a tepid repast at best.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Bánk bán
    Where Káel stumbles is in having his stars lip-synch, sometimes poorly, to a recording. It's a devil's bargain that allows for more natural staging, but that fails to convey that an opera's power lies less in cinematic shadings of character than in raw emotions refined by the spectacular art of a rigorously trained human voice.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    Rather exciting, rendered in a bright sunset palette and a mixture of expressive, boldly drawn traditional animation and fluid computer-generated imagery.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Orwell Rolls in His Grave
    Even though he refuses to excise about 15 to 20 minutes of unnecessary material, Pappas is nonetheless a steady editor who, less intrepid than dogged, pieces together a sustainably intriguing, suitably distressing exposé.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Monkeybone
    Like so many movies that depend on effects for effect, plot comes in a poor second to spectacle. That leaves the Fraser, funny and sexy as hell, left with little chance to prove it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Wasabi Tuna
    Fox does have a sharp sense of the absurd that comes out in silly subplots.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    FAQs
    The dialogue is blunter, and harder for his amateur cast to pull off, while Lewis' stridency, however justified, ultimately jars against the film's tender, all-is-love fantasia.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Bulletproof Monk
    It’s a testament to Chow's star power that, even with an accent more than casually reminiscent of Elmer Fudd's, he comes off charming, handsome and cool in a movie as ridiculous as Bulletproof Monk.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Princesa
    By the time Princesa finally slides into halfhearted melodrama in its last quarter, we're only too happy to follow Fernanda back to the rim and a little excitement.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The Best Man
    The best parts of the film...are often distractingly slick enough to cover the film's overriding lack of soul.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    Attack of the Clones' high-definition surfaces are certainly impressive, but they offer no lifelight, nothing to put your arms around.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    A Foreign Affair
    The photography is clear and colorful, the acting just fine, and the pace steady. However, the wan script by Geert Heetebrij imbues the brothers with so little personality that their respective transformations -- pack no emotional punch.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The Business of Fancydancing
    While The Business of Fancydancing is a thoughtful and complex work of sound and vision, it doesn't seem quite right to call it a film, for a couple of reasons. First of all, it is plainly, if crisply, shot on video, with a bright, shiny surface that fairly screams low-rent. Second, the whole business is strangely non-cinematic.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Conspiracy Theory
    The film isn't really about much and so feels patchy and forced, with elements more calculated than inspired, more urgent than exciting.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Le bossu
    The film is never less than lovely to gaze upon, shot in saturated colors, richly appointed in period trappings and peopled only by the very beautiful. But it is also, by its end, too silly to take seriously.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The Amateurs
    The Amateurs is nothing if not easy to watch. Yet, as a writer, Traeger is consternatingly adolescent and glib.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    What Women Want
    Narrow definitions of femininity limit the comedy and the romance.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The Business of Strangers
    Stettner's vision of both women lacks fullness, relying on stereotypes of feminine strength and vulnerability.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Hollywood Homicide
    Nothing, in fact, really fits together, most notably the partnership of Ford and Hartnett: Looking weathered yet professional, Ford carries what he can, but pretty and sullen Hartnett barely comes to life, leaving his partner stranded, and straining.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Texas Rangers
    A blandly competent dramatization of the famed Texas lawmen's post–Civil War history starring the blandly handsome tube stars
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Shade
    The flashes of warm, human talent that pulse periodically from the ensemble -- Byrne and Foxx, particularly -- only make their presence in this terrifically bad movie all the more baffling.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Swing
    If there's any reason to watch this otherwise inept romance, it's to witness the late Nell Carter nail a Louis Jordan tune, and to see master comic Jonathan Winters downplay his more manic tendencies and effortlessly spin gold from straw.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Let It Snow
    In lieu of developing a plot, the brothers opt to cram their cache of forced quirks and hit-or-miss sketches into a framework of predictabilities.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Double Jeopardy
    All promise and no payoff.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    An American Rhapsody
    While Gardos knows what to ask -- and though Kinski and Johansson both easily command attention -- the filmmaker lacks the storytelling sophistication to answer with anything but prettily rendered cliches.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Made-Up
    Voice-overs and commentaries are piled on top of contrived intimate moments until, despite some easygoing performances, the movie -- the actual movie -- is a blur of undercooked motivations and halfhearted improv.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Looking for an Echo
    Assante, restrained and thoughtful, reveals Vinnie's midlife bewilderment as much as his bred-in machismo. His performance is too delicate, though, to stand up to the rigidly formulaic schemes
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