For 82 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

David Hiltbrand's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 49
Highest review score:
Critic Score 75
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 12
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 82
  2. Negative: 27 out of 82
82 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 51
    • David Hiltbrand 38
    At one point, Statham chases down a sports car while pedaling madly on a kids' bike. Pathétique!
    • Metascore: 30
    • David Hiltbrand 38
    The acting is better than the script deserves and Lexi Alexander's cut-to-the-hearse direction lends the film considerable kick.
    • Metascore: 30
    • David Hiltbrand 38
    Faced with the script's weak humor and feeble stabs at irony, Schwartzman and Stiller turn it way up, setting the dial at "hammy."
    • Metascore: 53
    • David Hiltbrand 38
    The aquatic and surf scenes are spectacular. The story, a clichéed climb to inspiration. Soul Surfer is more parable than plot.
    • Metascore: 30
    • David Hiltbrand 38
    The film would be a moth-eaten mess without the wisecracking animals. Not that it's funny with them.
    • Metascore: 37
    • David Hiltbrand 38
    Rarely has a film so equally balanced macho and nacho, but Wrath does leave us with a few valuable lessons: a.) fratricide is a nasty business, best left to the Greeks and b) fighting fire with fire may sound good, but it turns out to be a really stupid idea.
    • Metascore: 40
    • David Hiltbrand 38
    The problem is that these stoic warriors infect Act of Valor with more wooden acting than you'd see at a ventriloquism school.
    • Metascore: 50
    • David Hiltbrand 38
    Hit & Run is a pleasant enough diversion - but more of the PPV persuasion.
    • Metascore: 33
    • David Hiltbrand 25
    The left hand doesn't know who the right hand is shooting in State Property 2, Damon Dash's prodigiously muddled thug-life sequel.
    • Metascore: 31
    • David Hiltbrand 25
    This one is so bad that even Ed Norton couldn't get this mess to move through the sewer.
    • Metascore: 25
    • David Hiltbrand 25
    This insipid take on the teens-in-peril formula, with a snake-bit ghoul chasing kids around the bayou, is truly a fangless task.
    • Metascore: 34
    • David Hiltbrand 25
    Doom is, to its detriment, a remarkably faithful re-creation of the massively popular video game. In other words, it's a dark, violent, nerve-wracking, trigger-giddy waste of time.
    • Metascore: 40
    • David Hiltbrand 25
    Vilely violent, Saw 2 is the Phnom Penh of splatter movies.
    • Metascore: 46
    • David Hiltbrand 25
    The script is a stupid mix of Teutonic tongue twisters (say hello to Herr Schniedelwichsen), hoary German cliches (from phallic sausages to U-boat spoofs), and bad slapstick.
    • Metascore: 30
    • David Hiltbrand 25
    A vast disappointment.
    • Metascore: 28
    • David Hiltbrand 25
    Can be described as whatever is the opposite of a Christmas classic.
    • Metascore: 36
    • David Hiltbrand 25
    The whole project is a cloying, artificial mess. The slapstick comedy doesn't bite, and the formulaic sentimentality doesn't grip.
    • Metascore: 24
    • David Hiltbrand 25
    As a cinematic experience, it's like being locked in a coffin for an hour and a half.
    • Metascore: 40
    • David Hiltbrand 25
    You would think any movie with the word "salmon" in the title would have to be funny. Think again.
    • Metascore: 43
    • David Hiltbrand 25
    If you actually sit through this enervating ordeal, you'll swear that time is Frozen.
    • Metascore: 43
    • David Hiltbrand 25
    It's hard to understand what Malevolence is doing in theaters. If ever a movie deserved to go directly to DVD, it's this dreary horror treatment.
    • Metascore: 37
    • David Hiltbrand 12
    Appalling sequel.