ROTTEN TOMATOES: Ernest Hardy

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

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	A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy
	Ten Nights of Dreams
	Boy A
	Chris & Don: A Love Story
	Without the King
	Little Chenier
	Billy The Kid
	Looking For Cheyenne
	Quantum Hoops
	Finishing the Game
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	Cadillac Records
	B.O.H.I.C.A
	Noah's Arc - Jumping the Broom
	The Amazing Truth about Queen Raquela
	The Poet
	Young Yakuza
	Young Yakuza
	Just Add Water
	Spiral
	Naked Boys Singing
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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	" Darnell Martin races through the script�s bullet points with a brisk superficiality that leaves crucial plot points underdeveloped and unresolved, and refuses to engage the dark side of Leonard Chess� paternalism." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 4, 2008	Cadillac Records (2008)	67%
	" Dortch�s manipulation of stereotype and the associations embedded in everything from skin tone to music set him apart as a talent to watch." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 4, 2008	A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy (2008)	n/a
	" It's not art or artfully rendered, and nothing they're saying is news. Still, it is good to see [star Brendan] Sexton again." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 13, 2008	B.O.H.I.C.A (2008)	n/a
	" While there are some solid chuckles scattered throughout the film, Polk�s heavy-handed political sloganeering is lifted straight from pamphlets, while his character development and plotting are clumsy and filled with holes." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 23, 2008	Noah's Arc - Jumping the Broom (2008)	50%
	" The amazing truth about Queen Raquela is that she�s constructed from clich�s." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 26, 2008	The Amazing Truth about Queen Raquela (2008)	44%
	" A sometimes terrifying, sometimes wildly amusing and occasionally flat interpretation of Soseki's tales by a who's who of Japanese film�makers." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 21, 2008	Ten Nights of Dreams (2008)	80%
	" Crowley, his cast and the script constantly reveal new layers to the characters, preventing simple labels like 'hero' or 'villain.' These people are all cringingly human." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 24, 2008	Boy A (2008)	89%
	" A charming, illuminating portrait of the complex and storied queer romance between Isherwood and Bachardy." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 3, 2008	Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007)	94%
	" Director Michael Skolnik�s generically crafted documentary on the precarious conditions of Swaziland, last functioning monarchy in Africa, is a curious mixture of banality and revelation." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 19, 2008	Without the King (2008)	94%
	" The audience is herded from clich� to unintentional farce to insult-to-its-intelligence." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 5, 2008	The Poet (2008)	n/a
	" Never delivers either the thrill of its underworld setting or much insight into its complicated workings." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 3, 2008	Young Yakuza (2007)	30%
	" Walsh nearly redeems the whole thing: His eyes flicker with an intelligence that isn�t in the script, and he graces his character with layers of inner life in a film that coasts on surfaces." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 27, 2008	Just Add Water (2008)	n/a
	" Where writer-director Bethany Ashton really excels is in capturing the complex dynamics of small-town life." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 13, 2008	Little Chenier (2006)	60%
	" It's a wit-free homage to Hitchcock and M. Night Shyamalan that, for all its slick presentation, never comes close to hitting the mark of its forebears." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 7, 2008	Spiral (2008)	56%
	" What you ultimately take from the film is the awareness that this smart, self-aware, uncensored kid has been playing to a camera in his own head since well before Venditti came along." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 7, 2008	Billy The Kid (2007)	85%
	" A beguiling comedy from a Marxist-inflected thesis that is filled with characters who rage against the machine with pessimism, optimism, and naïveté—sometimes in rotation." -- Village Voice Posted Dec 4, 2007	Looking For Cheyenne (2007)	n/a
	" The Caltech Beavers are a surprisingly charming group of overachievers who prove to have as much heart on the court as they do brains in the classroom." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 1, 2007	Quantum Hoops (2007)	80%
	" *The breezy tone and obvious fun being had by the cast make Finishing the Game* a slight, low-key cool cinematic essay on identity politics.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Oct 25, 2007	Finishing the Game (2007)	35%
	" Few of the songs, which range from gleefully raunchy to gratingly sentimental, are truly memorable." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 18, 2007	Naked Boys Singing (2007)	64%
	" Rape of Europa is a history lesson dressed as a measured thriller." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 27, 2007	The Rape Of Europa (2007)	79%
	" *Writer-director Jamie Babbit�s follow-up to But I�m a Cheerleader, while flawed and in need of at least one more script overhaul, is smarter, funnier and more accomplished than its predecessor." -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Sep 27, 2007	Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)	38%
	" The cast comprises some of the most beautiful people on Earth. In fact, the chance to see the still impossibly sexy [Sonia] Braga in action almost makes the whole exercise worthwhile." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 20, 2007	Sea of Dreams (2005)	33%
	" Dead One never generates either the fear or just tension that it intends with its portentous music, religious iconography and meant-to-be-creepy voice-overs." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 13, 2007	The Dead One (2007)	n/a
	" The acting is fine enough to slowly pull the viewer in, making you care just a bit how it all turns out." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 23, 2007	In a Day (2006)	n/a
	" U2, notoriously tight with the rights to their music and image, were reportedly so impressed by the script that they allowed their music and some concert footage to be used for very cheap. They got gypped." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 16, 2007	7 D�as (2007)	22%
	" A well-acted trifle straining to be a hard-hitting morality play." -- Village Voice Posted Aug 7, 2007	Descent (2007)	24%
	" A sobering, engrossing film that raises a red flag on a criminal class that is being created for corporate profit." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 21, 2007	Prison Town, USA (2007)	n/a
	" Rock the Bells [ends] on a high note, but in a minor chord of sadness." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 3, 2007	Rock the Bells (2007)	83%
	" It�s gross-out fare of the highest caliber." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 12, 2007	Hair High (2006)	78%
	" A film made by people just smart enough to acknowledge that the tropes of modern queer filmmaking have been reduced to clich�, but who themselves lack the courage to push beyond tried-and-true box-office formulas." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 22, 2007	Boy Culture (2007)	70%
	" *Shot on digital and layered with animated segments, performance footage and clips from Smith family home movies, Family Movie* unfolds with a gentle, justified confidence in the power of its subject.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Jan 19, 2007	Danielson: A Family Movie (2006)	43%
	" *Where Snow Blind* dazzles is in its generous serving of performance footage: Watching the devoted soar through the air, flipping and spinning with near-balletic skill, takes your breath away.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Dec 8, 2006	Snow Blind (2006)	20%
	" Neither Biraben's script nor his direction leave room for doubt as to how he feels about the nightmarish past, but he's smart enough to know that even justified outrage sometimes has to be tempered with the complexities of human intentions and realities." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 23, 2006	Cautiva (2005)	67%
	" What pulls the viewer in (aside from the charismatic real-life family playing the roles) is the film's compassionate, empathetic perspective." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 16, 2006	Cave of the Yellow Dog (2006)	88%
	" Takes a hot-button issue (here, it's homophobic U.S. immigration policies) and reduces it to dry sloganeering and shameless emotional manipulation of the audience." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 9, 2006	Maple Palm (2006)	n/a
	" Shottas, based on a true story, has been sitting on shelves for a few years now, accruing mythology as a great film that�s been unjustly sidelined. That, it is not. [It�s] wretched." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 2, 2006	Shottas (2006)	13%
	" *In showing all the stuff that the History Channel discreetly edits out, Excellent Cadavers* dismantles the celluloid romanticizing of the Mafia.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Oct 26, 2006	Excellent Cadavers (2006)	77%
	" An often infuriating (and excruciating) film to watch, but one that gets to the root of the despair that now plagues so much of the African continent." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 28, 2006	King Leopold's Ghost (2006)	91%
	" One of those all-too-rare films that handle preadolescent queerness with intelligence and unflinching honesty." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 28, 2006	The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2006)	88%
	" [MacDonald's] subjects -- former black chorus girls from Harlem's golden age, when the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater ruled New York nightlife -- are utterly captivating." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 28, 2006	Been Rich All My Life (2006)	78%
	" An illuminating, infuriating document that paints McKinney as a true American heroine and patriot and confirms your worst fears about just how rotten our 'democratic' process is at its core." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 7, 2006	American Blackout (2006)	75%
	" The film only rarely harnesses the power of the anachronistic, funk-driven, beat-heavy rap music that swells its soundtrack." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 24, 2006	Idlewild (2006)	48%
	" It�s a mildly enjoyable romp." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 17, 2006	Psychopathia Sexualis (2006)	23%
	" The tale is unnecessarily fractured and becomes increasingly didactic as it collapses into a mess of shrill big-screen activism and smugly relayed leftist ideals." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 10, 2006	Poster Boy (2006)	26%
	" Elevated by fantastic performance footage of Sa and his young prot�g�s singing, dancing and rhythmically banging on cans, plastic bottles or anything else that can be fashioned into a drum -- and a cultural revolution." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 3, 2006	Favela Rising (2006)	63%
	" The Celestine Prophecy Movie never transcends either the look or the feel of a cult recruitment film crossed with a Christian-network infomercial." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 20, 2006	The Celestine Prophecy (2006)	4%
	" *[Franti's] unreflective, narcissistic humanitarianism is straight out of an old SCTV* skit.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Jul 13, 2006	I Know I Am Not Alone (2006)	n/a
	" It�s worth catching the film just for Sedaris� performance. Surrounded and sparked by all the show�s familiar characters (most played by the wonderful TV cast), she�s a marvel of inspired grotesqueness." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 6, 2006	Strangers With Candy (2006)	52%
	" It�s a dud." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 15, 2006	The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2006)	22%
	" Churlish though it seems to throw daggers at this clearly heartfelt but insipid drama, the naivet� quickly becomes exasperating." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 1, 2006	Conrad Boys ()	25%

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