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Critics / Authors Reviews and Articles
HAP ERSTEIN
PUBLICATION(S)
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Palm Beach Post

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Total Reviews: 31

CRITICS GROUP(S)
• Florida Film Critics Circle
• Southeastern Film Critics Association


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" The role belongs to Ford, and he is his usual sly self, with dry comic delivery and intrepid air, which was always more important than death-defying acrobatics." -- Palm Beach Post
Posted May 18, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)76%
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B+
 
" Blitz cleverly constructs another tale around a competition and again takes us beneath the surface of those vying for the prize." -- Palm Beach Post
Posted Aug 27, 2007
 
Rocket Science (2007)84%
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B+
 
" The film has a few horrific jolts and plenty of violence, but at its core it is simply a mind-twisting head trip." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted May 24, 2007
 
Bug (2007)59%
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B+
 
" Veber's script is masterfully constructed to increase the laughs as the scheme grows more and more convoluted." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted May 19, 2007
 
The Valet (2007)69%
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C-
 
" Braff has a natural likability, but the screenplay gives him so many stupid, far-fetched and annoying things to do that The Ex loses credibility quickly." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted May 19, 2007
 
The Ex (2007)19%
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C
 
" There is an undeniable beauty to some of [director] Ceylan's imagery, but as drama goes, this film is simply too inert for general audience tastes." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted May 12, 2007
 
Climates (2006)71%
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B+
 
" A gripping little film that is well told and well performed." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Apr 12, 2007
 
The Hoax (2007)85%
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B+
 
" A ludicrous, but entertaining look at a real-life Kubrick impersonator, played with over-the-top glee by Malkovich." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Mar 22, 2007
 
Color Me Kubrick (2007)52%
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A-
 
" Stranger Than Fiction is the most original comedy of the year, a mind-bending tale with one foot in the real world and the other in pure fiction." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Nov 9, 2006
 
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)73%
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C-
 
" In retrospect, it is Belle who manages to acquit herself best with a role that never quite makes sense, but affords her some expressive, silent sequences. Surely she will find other film work and then quietly drop The Quiet from her biography." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Sep 23, 2006
 
The Quiet (2006)22%
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B
 
" The film careens from crisis to crisis. Yet each time it threatens to spin out of control, [director Michael] Cuesta demonstrates a firm hand that keeps us leaning in with interest." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 6, 2006
 
12 and Holding (2006)74%
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C-
 
" Maybe there are worthy films buried in collections of spiritual homilies, but Peaceful Warrior is not one of them." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 6, 2006
 
Peaceful Warrior (2006)24%
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B-
 
" You, Me and Dupree overstays its welcome but a compilation reel of Wilson's scenes would make for fairly funny viewing." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 6, 2006
 
You, Me and Dupree (2006)22%
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B+
 
" A compelling account of German émigrés trained to infiltrate and fight their former countrymen." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted May 6, 2006
 
The Ritchie Boys (2006)100%
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" [D]irector-writer Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan) is hoping her target audience will abandon the shuffleboard courts for the multiplex." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted May 4, 2006
 
The Boynton Beach Club (2006)60%
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D
 
" Presumably patterned after Robert Rodriguez's Sin City, but substantially more graphic, there is surely an audience for this empty brutality, but you would not want to know anyone to whom this picture appeals." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Mar 11, 2006
 
Running Scared (2006)40%
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C+
 
" Based on Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda kid's book series, one can see how the material might have had potential, if the cast were not pressing so much for laughs." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 26, 2006
 
Nanny McPhee (2006)73%
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B
 
" An innocent comic exercise, fueled more on charm than titillation." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 8, 2004
 
Calendar Girls (2003)74%
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D
 
" Paltrow cannot begin to save this unfunny flight attendant comedy that should have gone direct to video." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Apr 27, 2003
 
View from the Top (2003)14%
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B-
 
" Preposterous? Absolutely, but director Jon Amiel seems to be in on the joke, pausing at regular intervals to laugh at the disaster genre in which he is engaged, then resuming the suspense and reeling us back in again." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Mar 27, 2003
 
The Core (2003)42%
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C+
 
" Messages from the afterlife unnerve Costner, but the spooky first half is far better than the payoff." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Feb 21, 2002
 
Dragonfly (2002)7%
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B+
 
" An ingenious, diabolical, probably libelous, funhouse of a movie." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 25, 2001
 
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)82%
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" Impressively vast canvas portrait of the futile war on drugs, though lacking anything new on the subject." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 4, 2001
 
Traffic (2000)92%
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" Awkward, alternately sour and sappy." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Beautiful (2000)15%
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" Norton hardly revolutionizes the romantic triangle formula, but he does nudge it in the direction of something intelligent." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Keeping the Faith (2000)68%
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" A better-than-
average summer night's entertainment.
" -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Loser (2000)26%
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" Enormously underwritten and unfunny." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Man on the Moon (1999)62%
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" Never manages to feel like a sustained story." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)26%
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" There is nothing profound in this movie, but it shines through so many of this summer's dumb Hollywood comedies like a beacon through a haze of smoke." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Saving Grace (2000)64%
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" A rip-snorting good flick that breaks the cinematic jinx against Revolutionary War stories." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Patriot (2000)62%
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" As cleverly written and visually startling as the 1995 feature from computer animation expert Pixar, the follow-up improves upon it in so many tangible ways." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Toy Story 2 (1999)100%

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