Pete Vonder Haar

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Film Threat, Village Voice
For 338 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 12.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Pete Vonder Haar's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 53
Highest review score: 100 The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Lowest review score: 0 Supercross
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 115 out of 338
  2. Mixed: 145 out of 338
  3. Negative: 78 out of 338
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Pete Vonder Haar
    Speed Racer
    It isn't going to set the world on fire, but it's perfectly acceptable for what it is.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 10 Pete Vonder Haar
    Æon Flux
    Every rumor you’ve heard about this film is true; it’s an absolute wreck.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Pete Vonder Haar
    Employee of the Month
    It tries to toe the line between romantic comedy and vulgar pseudo-satire and fails at both.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Pete Vonder Haar
    Phat Girlz
    Lackluster dialogue, ludicrously unbelievable storyline, and the fact that the entire film looks and sounds like it was shot on a camcorder mean nobody outside of the studio’s target demographic is likely to check this out.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 60 Pete Vonder Haar
    Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Dumb, loud, and ludicrous in the extreme, and I actually enjoyed it.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Pete Vonder Haar
    The Wicker Man
    The Wicker Man isn't all that bad a movie; it's visually striking and ambitious in some ways. It just fails to bring enough to the table to fully distance itself from the original.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Pete Vonder Haar
    Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    Veers back and forth between indigestibly syrupy romance and vulgar "ethnic" comedy, with healthy doses of Christian proselytizing thrown in for good measure.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Pete Vonder Haar
    Lady in the Water
    Lady is more of an ensemble picture, and truly the Cove is the most ethnically diverse and community-minded apartment complex in the continental United States.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 60 Pete Vonder Haar
    Standoff
    Standoff holds up as a welcome alternative to its more strident brethren.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 10 Pete Vonder Haar
    Turistas
    Turistas fails in almost every way a movie like this can.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Pete Vonder Haar
    The Reaping
    The Reaping isn't a total failure. Swank is never less than competent.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Pete Vonder Haar
    What Happens in Vegas
    If What Happens in Vegas... serves any purpose, it's to make me consider spending my gambling money in Reno or on a riverboat instead.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Pete Vonder Haar
    Star Wars: The Clone Wars
    The whole thing feels like a continuation of Lucas' experiments to see how much sh-- his dwindling supporters will take before finally saying "enough" and moving on to adult pursuits.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Pete Vonder Haar
    Hitman
    Let's start with the obvious: Olyphant just isn't that intimidating an assassin. Think of some of cinema's more memorable button men: Léon, Luca Brasi, Frank Nitti...that's right, not a pretty boy in the bunch.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Pete Vonder Haar
    Bitter Harvest
    A subject like the Holodomor demands something more than a TV-movie aesthetic and pitched battle scenes featuring a couple dozen combatants.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Pete Vonder Haar
    Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    An almost constant misfire. From its paper-thin plot to the utterly flat script, virtually nothing works.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Pete Vonder Haar
    Friday the 13th
    The question isn't whether Nispel's remake is better than the 1980 original (it isn't) but whether anything original is brought into the mix. And minus a mild plot twist you"ll probably see coming from the first five minutes, there isn't.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Pete Vonder Haar
    Doom
    Doesn’t break any new ground – it actually steals from half a dozen other sci-fi movies – but it’ll make enough at the box office to justify further game flicks.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 70 Pete Vonder Haar
    Undead
    What really grabs your attention about Undead, however, are the effects. For a movie budgeted under $1 million, the Spierigs have done an amazing job putting together believable visuals.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Pete Vonder Haar
    The Grudge 2
    The same problems that plagued the original are on display here. Most notably, the lack of any coherent plot. Lots of creepy kids jump out at us, but these scenes are never satisfactorily meshed into the story itself.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Pete Vonder Haar
    RV
    The recreational vehicle has a long and storied tradition in American cinema, from "Damnation Alley" to "Lost in America" to "Stripes." Sadly, RV shares little of its namesake' nationwide appeal.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Pete Vonder Haar
    The Amityville Horror
    There are some genuine scares to be had here, and not just of the “Boo!” variety.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 10 Pete Vonder Haar
    Code Name: The Cleaner
    I humbly submit that Cedric the Entertainer be required to give up the "Entertainer" portion of his nom de plume until he actually starts entertaining us.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 10 Pete Vonder Haar
    The Man
    I haven't seen such meaningful insight into the nature of human cooperation since this morning's "Sesame Street."
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Pete Vonder Haar
    The Dukes of Hazzard
    Just make sure you exit the theater before Simpson's god-awful version of "These Boots Are Made for Walking" starts playing during the end credits, or you may find yourself taking the straw from your drink and puncturing your own eardrums in self defense.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Pete Vonder Haar
    Club Life
    Ferrara, best known as "Turtle" on HBO's Entourage, plays what is essentially a muted version of that character. Abeckaser is more believable, which is unsurprising, since the movie is loosely based on his own experiences.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Pete Vonder Haar
    Untraceable
    Computer movies have come a long way since the good old days of monitors projecting vector graphics on hackers’ faces, but there are still some forehead slappers in Untraceable.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 60 Pete Vonder Haar
    Waiting...
    Waiting… is only intermittently funny, but when it is, it's hilarious.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Pete Vonder Haar
    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
    "The Beginning" is a better movie than the 2003 remake, even if the plot is understandably similar. There are only so many ways hapless teens can get brutally slaughtered, after all, but Liebesman and company keep things appropriately creepy, right down to aping the look of the 1974 original.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Pete Vonder Haar
    Fool's Gold
    Fool's Gold could easily have been released in 1977, and there's a sort of laid-back, timeless, Gerald Ford feel to the movie: the resolution is never in doubt, the villains are comedic rather than menacing, and no one involved seems to care one way or the other that their names are attached to this indifferent mess.
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