ROTTEN TOMATOES: Hap Erstein

HAP ERSTEIN

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Palm Beach Post

Critics' Group: Florida Film Critics Circle, Southeastern Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 31

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Fresh	Fresh 77%	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	" 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
Fresh B+	Fresh 84%	Rocket Science (2007)	" 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
Fresh B+	Rotten 59%	Bug (2007)	" 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
Fresh B+	Fresh 69%	The Valet (2007)	" 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
Rotten C-	Rotten 18%	The Ex (2007)	" *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
Rotten C	Fresh 71%	Climates (2006)	" 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
Fresh B+	Fresh 85%	The Hoax (2007)	" A gripping little film that is well told and well performed." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Apr 12, 2007
Fresh B+	Rotten 51%	Color Me Kubrick (2007)	" 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
Fresh A-	Fresh 72%	Stranger Than Fiction (2006)	" 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
Rotten C-	Rotten 22%	The Quiet (2006)	" 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
Fresh B	Fresh 74%	12 and Holding (2006)	" 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
Rotten C-	Rotten 24%	Peaceful Warrior (2006)	" *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
Rotten B-	Rotten 21%	You, Me and Dupree (2006)	" 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
Fresh B+	Fresh 100%	The Ritchie Boys (2006)	" A compelling account of German �migr�s trained to infiltrate and fight their former countrymen." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted May 6, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 60%	The Boynton Beach Club (2006)	" *[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
Rotten D	Rotten 40%	Running Scared (2006)	" 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
Rotten C+	Fresh 73%	Nanny McPhee (2006)	" *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
Fresh B	Fresh 74%	Calendar Girls (2003)	" An innocent comic exercise, fueled more on charm than titillation." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Jan 8, 2004
Rotten D	Rotten 14%	View from the Top (2003)	" Paltrow cannot begin to save this unfunny flight attendant comedy that should have gone direct to video." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Apr 27, 2003
Fresh B-	Rotten 42%	The Core (2003)	" 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
Rotten C+	Rotten 7%	Dragonfly (2002)	" Messages from the afterlife unnerve Costner, but the spooky first half is far better than the payoff." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Feb 21, 2002
Fresh B+	Fresh 81%	Shadow of the Vampire (2000)	" An ingenious, diabolical, probably libelous, funhouse of a movie." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Jan 25, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Traffic (2000)	" Impressively vast canvas portrait of the futile war on drugs, though lacking anything new on the subject." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Jan 4, 2001
Rotten	Rotten 15%	Beautiful (2000)	" Awkward, alternately sour and sappy." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh	Fresh 68%	Keeping the Faith (2000)	" 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
Fresh	Rotten 25%	Loser (2000)	" A better-than- average summer night's entertainment." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten	Fresh 62%	Man on the Moon (1999)	" Enormously underwritten and unfunny." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten	Rotten 26%	Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)	" Never manages to feel like a sustained story." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh	Fresh 64%	Saving Grace (2000)	" 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
Fresh	Fresh 62%	The Patriot (2000)	" A rip-snorting good flick that breaks the cinematic jinx against Revolutionary War stories." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Toy Story 2 (1999)	" 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

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