ROTTEN TOMATOES: John Hazelton

JOHN HAZELTON

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications: Screen International, Screendaily

Total Reviews: 36

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Rotten	Rotten 6%	Old Dogs (2009)	" *There are no new tricks in Old Dogs, a broad and frenetic family comedy which puts John Travolta and Robin Williams together with two cute kids in a cozily predictable family-comes-first scenario." — Screen International* Posted Nov 24, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 20%	Planet 51 (2009)	" Independently and internationally produced CG animated comedy Planet 51 has the visuals to compare with bigger budgeted Hollywood studio offerings but not the storytelling spark." — Screen International Posted Nov 18, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 29%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" Independently and internationally produced CG animated comedy Planet 51 has the visuals to compare with bigger budgeted Hollywood studio offerings but not the storytelling spark." — Screendaily Posted Nov 18, 2009
—	Rotten 29%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" Independently and internationally produced CG animated comedy Planet 51 has the visuals to compare with bigger budgeted Hollywood studio offerings but not the storytelling spark." — Screendaily Posted Nov 18, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 45%	The Box (2009)	" While there are some imaginative effects and spooky moments (as well as a few hackneyed sci-fi touches) the whole thing gets pretty silly at times, and the mystery is never fully resolved." — Screen International Posted Nov 5, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 55%	Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)	" A Christmas Carol is an engaging and relatively dark take on a seasonal classic that finds director Robert Zemeckis refining the performance capture animation technique he used to mixed effect on The Polar Express and Beowulf." — Screen International Posted Nov 3, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 27%	Pandorum (2009)	" Over-acting is endemic. Quaid can�t do much with his very limited role, and Foster seems miscast." — Screen International Posted Sep 28, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 67%	Bruno (2009)	" *While the film isn�t as consistently funny as Borat, Bruno* should still pull in a sizeable audience.*" — Screen International* Posted Jun 30, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 46%	My Sister's Keeper (2009)	" An awkwardly structured but warmly emotional and relatively unsentimental drama." — Screen International Posted Jun 22, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 38%	Imagine That (2009)	" Sweet yet slight." — Screen International Posted Jun 9, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" None of the actors has much to work with but Worthington and Yelchin manage to give their characters some appeal. Bale�s Connor is too gruff and one-note to be of much interest." — Screen International Posted May 18, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 27%	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)	" Starts unpromisingly but ends up, thanks largely to co-star Jennifer Garner, being briefly affecting." — Screen International Posted Apr 27, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 55%	The Soloist (2009)	" *As a study of two apparently dissimilar men trying to find their way in the world, The Soloist* works fairly well.*" — Screen International* Posted Apr 20, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 63%	Crank High Voltage (2009)	" A self-consciously crazy action romp which overdoses on cartoonish violence and non-PC comedy." — Screen International Posted Apr 20, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 33%	Knowing (2009)	" Ambitious but overwrought." — Screen International Posted Mar 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	I Love You, Man (2009)	" *A Judd Apatow-esque mix of the buddy and romantic comedy genres, I Love You, Man* hits the funny bone often if never particularly hard.*" — Screen International* Posted Mar 16, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 4%	Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)	" *Even avid fans of the classic video game on which it is based are likely to give a thumbs down to Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li." — Screen International* Posted Mar 2, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 25%	Friday the 13th (2009)	" Muscular but pretty unimaginative." — Screen International Posted Feb 13, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 32%	Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)	" Even with Doomsday's Rhona Mitra as a replacement sultry presence, it's likely to disappoint the franchise's core audience of young males." — Screen International Posted Jan 26, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 18%	New in Town (2009)	" What follows has the comforting predictability that many rom-coms share." — Screen International Posted Jan 23, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 61%	Marley & Me (2008)	" After its breezy first act the film goes into a second act that's intended to be darker and more dramatic but doesn't convince on either count." — Screen International Posted Dec 22, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 25%	Bedtime Stories (2008)	" While kids will get a few giggles out of this scattershot Disney fantasy-comedy, adults probably won't find much to laugh at." — Screen International Posted Dec 22, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 27%	Seven Pounds (2008)	" A slow, improbable and very mawkish drama." — Screen International Posted Dec 19, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 68%	Cadillac Records (2008)	" The standout acting performance comes from Wright, who, though he doesn't look particularly like Waters, captures some of the singer's physicality and delivers some poignant moments as the great bluesman begins to lose his commercial mojo." — Screen International Posted Dec 2, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 25%	Four Christmases (2008)	" Four rounds of family festivities produce very little merriment for either its protagonists or audiences." — Screen International Posted Nov 24, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 27%	The Other End of the Line (2008)	" The film settles into a pattern of predictable romance interspersed, thanks to the antics of Priya's relations, with broad family farce." — Screen International Posted Nov 3, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 64%	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)	" *The sequel to DreamWorks' computer-animated family hit Madagascar* offers more drama and a lot more animals but fewer laughs and not quite as much fun as the colourful summer 2005 original.*" — Screen International* Posted Nov 3, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 43%	Death Race (2008)	" Anderson finds a few interesting angles from which to cover things, but there's nothing really memorable or original to wow jaded action fans." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 72%	Wanted (2008)	" Maximum violence and minimum plot are the formula." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 69%	I Am Legend (2007)	" Smith still manages to find something touching and occasionally even tragic in the character." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 39%	The Rocker (2008)	" The moments don't add up to much, though, and the dramatic arc ends up feeling even narrower than it usually is in this kind of story." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 10%	Fool's Gold (2008)	" The comedy, though, is broad and only mildly effective and the banter lacks edge and wit." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 19%	The Clone Wars (2008)	" Strong new characters are disappointingly thin on the ground." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 41%	Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)	" While it doesn't work particularly well on any of those levels, it is a colourful addition to the always popular talking dog genre." — Screen International Posted Sep 29, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 82%	Tropic Thunder (2008)	" Produces some real laughs but was probably more fun to make than it ultimately is to watch." — Screen International Posted Jul 30, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 49%	30 Days of Night (2007)	" The vampire's attacks are nicely manic - think of an over-zealous contestant at a pie eating contest -- but they get repetitive after the first few kills." — Screen International Posted Oct 27, 2007

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