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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Waging a Living
    The lack of cohesion and conviction is disconcerting, and it allows the movie to veer dangerously close to exploitation. Its subjects -- and its viewers -- deserve more.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Only the Strong Survive
    The rather sad performances boast more clams than a Pismo beach party.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    All About the Benjamins
    This is high school fantasy straight outta Compton. As such, it has a certain compelling enthusiasm.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The One
    There's nothing like a feature-length video game to make you feel you're being played.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Mystery, Alaska
    Thoroughly mediocre.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    I Dreamed of Africa
    There's little room for Kuki to evolve into anything approaching an actual character, and it would take an actress far greater than Basinger, who gives it her all, to make something of the role.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The Mummy Returns
    You can't see the movie for the footage, so thick is it with digital tricks and furious action.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Instinct
    John Turtletaub directs Gerald DiPego's silly script, pumping it full of sudden shocks and cheap dramatics where there should be steady tension and character development.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Shuang long hui
    As usual, the final fight-scene extravaganza is outstanding, but it’s hardly worth the dreary hour and a half that precedes it.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The Core
    The first half-hour of The Core is hip enough to its own moribund formula that for a brief, shining moment, there's hope the film will actually be a goofy gas instead of the effects-bound lump it becomes.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Kingdom Come
    So many stars means so little room for character and plot.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Don't Tell
    Might make a fun Lifetime TV movie -- if it weren't quite so morose.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    La sindrome di Stendhal
    Strangely drab.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Enemies of Laughter
    Paymer is the key to this mild-mannered comedy built on easy setups and borscht-belt one-liners.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Bittersweet Motel
    Never really gets across the essence of who the band members are and why they inspire such fidelity.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    XX/XY
    The young filmmaker clearly needs to experience a bit more of la vraie vie before his own observations can take in more than the clumsy romantic feints and parries of early adulthood.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Maid in Manhattan
    It's a case of persona overwhelming presence, and the butterscotch smoothness that was such an asset opposite George Clooney's glittering cool in "Out of Sight" is all but lost in the sheen of this high-gloss production.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    A Guy Thing
    Transcends its video-box-shelf-filler pedigree only when it's actually indulging in guy stuff, mostly of the frat-boy, beer-commercial variety.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Jabberwocky (re-release)
    Jabberwocky is not a Python film, a fact most obvious in its marked lack of humor.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    All the Queen's Men
    Bad in such a bizarre way that it's almost worth seeing, if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and taste.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Greendale
    It's perhaps Greendale's greatest flaw that, rather than stirring the blood, its heartfelt call to arms comes off as a sentimental, even trite, notion from an increasingly distant past.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Knockout
    There's little to recommend Knockout.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    How to Deal
    How much can one girl grapple with over the course of an hour and a half?
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Gasoline
    By the time we get to the big finish, it feels as if we've merely been poked repeatedly in the ribs with a really good-looking stick.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Glitter
    Glitter is, if nothing else, comfortable with what it is, namely earnestly made, wholehearted schlock.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Camera Obscura
    Sarkissian's script is both overwrought and undercooked, crammed with floridly senseless speeches.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The Flip Side
    An intriguing failure that promises more than it delivers.
    • 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.
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