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Critics / Hap Erstein
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    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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    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 émigrés 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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