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

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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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    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Erleuchtung garantiert
    Enlightenment Guaranteed is a parable of alienation and rediscovery told with such affection, insight and visual elegance, it could never be taken as preachy or stern.
    • 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.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Rush Hour
    The problem with Rush Hour is that the film isn’t a partnership, it’s a Chris Tucker movie with Chan as straight man.
    • 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.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Me Without You
    Me Without You is at its truest and most affecting when it steps back from the gig gling, bitching and nail biting to reveal how the compulsion to control and appropriate can be born of simple love and admiration.
    • 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.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Only the Strong Survive
    The rather sad performances boast more clams than a Pismo beach party.
    • 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.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Lost in Space
    Director Stephen Hopkins (Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child) and writer Akiva Goldsman (Batman and Robin) layer a ridiculous time-travel tale with the story of a dysfunctional family Robinson, impressive special effects, and IKEA does Star Wars production design.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    South of Heaven, West of Hell
    Oxymoronic musings of a vain country singer.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The Last Waltz
    To see the film in this meticulously restored and remixed version is like watching it for the first time, so clear is the sound, so vivid the sights.
    • 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.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 80 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    The Big Bounce
    It's Wilson who's the score here. Quick, scruffy and completely at ease, he takes on Jack's let-it-ride charms and foibles as if he were tossing a Frisbee with friends, and it's impossible to watch him without wanting in on the game.
    • 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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Shanghai Noon
    A modest pleasure, driven by a jumble of Old West signifiers and goofball modern flourishes.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Pop & Me
    The film quickly becomes a vortex of father-son bonding and rivalry, and what could have been a mere travelogue becomes a bumpy exploration of male identity and communication.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 90 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Practical Magic
    Dunne is committed, thank good-ness, unapologetic for even the most fluttery sentiment or spookiest chill, enjoying the swellness of the very idea almost as much as any fanciful girl.
    • 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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    School of Rock
    Still, the big-show musical payoff is good fun, and Black and his little doppelgangers have it all over "Daddy Day Care."
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Earth
    Both visually and emotionally, a panoramic picture; Mehta wields a master's hand as she weaves together vistas of urban and pastoral India with thoughts on the nature of man as it keeps cycling out in the specifics of history.
    • 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.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    Love the Hard Way
    Long-shelved 2001 clunker.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    42: Forty Two Up
    That nothing more monumental than an everyday life has occurred to any of the subjects is perhaps the film's most compelling aspect.
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