Peter Hartlaub

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San Francisco Chronicle
For 573 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Peter Hartlaub's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 Alien
Lowest review score: 0 The Smurfs 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 246 out of 573
  2. Mixed: 189 out of 573
  3. Negative: 138 out of 573
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Undead
    At best a little boring and at worst stomach-churningly offensive.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    The Benchwarmers
    It's a movie packed with so many idiot characters that Rob Schneider is cast as the cool guy -- and sort of pulls it off.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Black Christmas
    Props to the Weinstein Brothers for having the guts to release a slasher film on Christmas Day. Too bad this one is the cinematic equivalent of tryptophan.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    One Direction: This Is Us
    The 3-D 1D movie is aimless, seemingly deceptive and spreads a poor message: that it's OK to act extremely immature, as long as you have millions of blind followers who think it's cute.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Deliver Us From Evil
    At best, it will be remembered as "that exorcism movie with Eric Bana." More likely, "that exorcism movie where everyone has a bad New York accent."
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Smurfs: The Lost Village
    Smurfs: The Lost Village has the look of a film that was rushed, and made on a tight budget. At best, it’s an adequate cinematic babysitter.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Hector and the Search for Happiness
    “Avoiding unhappiness is not the road to happiness,” Hector writes in his book. But avoiding this movie might be a good start.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Aliens in the Attic
    Nowhere near as bad as "Coneheads," but still isn't worth your time.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    I'm Still Here
    If there was ever a human being who needed a visit from the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, this is the guy.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Super Troopers 2
    A film that looks way more fun to make than it is to watch. There’s a stubbornness to the comedic approach, mostly in its unwillingness to age since the first “Super Troopers.”
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Winchester
    Although it isn’t a top-flight horror movie — too slow for thrill-chasers, too ridiculously fictionalized for historians — the film serves as a proper 99-minute commercial for that San Jose tourist spot.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Play the Game
    Has all kinds of good intentions, but the comedy is too broad and the pacing is clumsy. And then there's the Andy Griffith sex scene.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Open Season
    This is the animated children's film equivalent of "Another 48 Hours."
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Ultraviolet
    A film to be enjoyed only by science-fiction movie completists and middle school boys with extreme cases of attention deficit disorder.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Hotel Transylvania 2
    Belongs in a less ambitious category of sequels, alongside the creatively lacking “Alvin and the Chipmunks” and “Ice Age” movies.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    How can this movie not be fun?
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Feast
    Kind of a bore.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    The Strangers: Prey at Night
    Mostly it serves as a comprehensive manual of bad places to hide from a masked killer.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    It's just too bad that almost nothing in the movie seems original. The "Thriller" video may have featured hokey dancing zombies, but at least someone was making an effort.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    The narrative is a mess, and the overly long action sequences are easily forgotten.
    • San Francisco Chronicle
      • Posted Aug 7, 2014
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Alvin and the Chipmunks
    A movie that features a cartoon rodent eating his brother's feces, and do you really need to know more about this update of Ross Bagdasarian's iconic musical creation?
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Doogal
    It's a movie that scrounges so desperately for laughs, it features both a flatulent moose and a flatulent train.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Pulse
    Has maybe a half-dozen moderately frightening scenes.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Golf in the Kingdom
    Don't invest too much in the word "Golf" at the beginning of the title. Golf in the Kingdom is arguably less of a sports movie than the first "Harry Potter." (At least someone won that game of quidditch ...)
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Conversations with God
    The movie appears to be a contrived, poorly produced attempt to sell more of the author's books.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    Underworld: Evolution
    Humorless, confusing and not very fun to watch.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    The Skeleton Key
    A well-intentioned horror film that is weighted down by stellar cast members who for the most part act as if they don't want to be there.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
    Every moviegoer will have his own breaking point, when The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones surpasses the mundane and enters the ridiculous.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    My Little Pony: The Movie
    Some people clearly had a good time making this film. Whether you have a good time watching it depends almost entirely on your Pony love walking in.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Hartlaub
    What Happens in Vegas
    Who wants to spend a minute on the Strip with the chance that there might be people as annoying as the characters played by Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher walking around?
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