Pete Vonder Haar
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33% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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63% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.9 points lower than other critics.
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Pete Vonder Haar's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 53 | |
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Highest review score: | The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters | |
Lowest review score: | Supercross |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 115 out of 337
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Mixed: 144 out of 337
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Negative: 78 out of 337
337
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- Pete Vonder Haar
Criminal negligence of Dolph is far from Black Water’s only sin — there’s also the sluggish pacing, murky musical score, and somnambulant lead — but it might be its most egregious.- Village Voice
- Posted Jun 28, 2018
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- Pete Vonder Haar
Quinn Shephard’s directorial debut, Blame, leans heavily on this persistent despair, yes, but also leverages it in innovative and occasionally startling ways.- Village Voice
- Posted Jan 4, 2018
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- Pete Vonder Haar
Carpenter isn’t a polished interviewer, but her candor and longstanding connections to the sport provide access that we wouldn’t see otherwise.- Village Voice
- Posted Nov 8, 2017
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- Village Voice
- Posted Aug 15, 2017
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- Pete Vonder Haar
The athleticism on display shames much of Western action cinema’s quick-cut hand-to-hand editing, and the final swordfight between Qi and Japanese general Kumasawa (Shaw Brothers mainstay Yasuaki Kurata) ranks as high as any in recent memory.- Village Voice
- Posted May 31, 2017
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- Pete Vonder Haar
Golf's become such a ridiculously well-heeled pastime that it's refreshing to see it portrayed in its infancy, when clubs were carried like a bunch of kindling and the desolate greens of St. Andrews were more like the hazards of today's game.- Village Voice
- Posted Apr 12, 2017
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- Pete Vonder Haar
Aside from the slightly fresh take on a familiar concept, The Boss Baby is barely a moderate success as a kid's flick. Perhaps it will come as good news to studio and audience alike that it works much better as an existential horror movie.- Village Voice
- Posted Mar 30, 2017
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- Pete Vonder Haar
A subject like the Holodomor demands something more than a TV-movie aesthetic and pitched battle scenes featuring a couple dozen combatants.- Village Voice
- Posted Feb 22, 2017
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- Pete Vonder Haar
Everybody Loves Somebody won’t reinvent the (third) wheel, but the knowing dialogue and convincingly human characters are a refreshing break from the norm and worthy of your attention.- Village Voice
- Posted Feb 16, 2017
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- Pete Vonder Haar
The unique setting aside, there's just not much to sink your fangs into.- Village Voice
- Posted Oct 19, 2016
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- Village Voice
- Posted Aug 30, 2016
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- Pete Vonder Haar
Director Adam Randall keeps the action tightly paced and the dialogue to a refreshing minimum, helping to heighten Matt's growing isolation.- Village Voice
- Posted Aug 25, 2016
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- Pete Vonder Haar
70 odd minutes of medical tragedy and cops matching wits with criminals devolves into incongruously balletic gunplay accentuated with CGI blood effects so terrible Sam Peckinpah is doing cocaine in his grave. It’s a weirdly calamitous tonal shift, erasing the scant goodwill we’d felt to this point and putting Three down for the count once and for all.- Village Voice
- Posted Jun 24, 2016
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- Pete Vonder Haar
Vaxxed is, in the words of Sheriff Bart, the last act of a desperate man. It’s Andrew Wakefield’s Hail Mary, thrown — I hope — as his time in the public arena finally runs out.- Village Voice
- Posted Apr 6, 2016
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- Village Voice
- Posted Feb 9, 2016
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- Pete Vonder Haar
Convergence ends up squandering too much of its setup time and rushing to a largely unsatisfying conclusion instead of actually coming together in a meaningful way.- Village Voice
- Posted Feb 3, 2016
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- Pete Vonder Haar
The Hallow offers plenty of scares and is unnerving from wire to wire, wrapping up the second act with a bang and red-lining the tension until the end.- Village Voice
- Posted Nov 3, 2015
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- Village Voice
- Posted Oct 16, 2015
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- Pete Vonder Haar
While his story is moving, Godspeed would perhaps have been more powerful if Barry spent more time balancing Jones's relative good fortune with the monumental hurdles faced by the less fortunate with similar injuries, instead of touching upon the issue in the film's final minutes.- Village Voice
- Posted Oct 5, 2015
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- Pete Vonder Haar
It doesn't hurt to have excellent support from the likes of Emma Roberts (as Ed's love interest Eloise) and Sarah Silverman, surprisingly winning as Ed's affection-starved mother. But it's Wolff and Rourke who have to carry the load, and for the most part they do.- Village Voice
- Posted Sep 22, 2015
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- Pete Vonder Haar
L.A. Slasher isn't perceptive, shocking, or funny, and if it's remembered for anything, it will be for the tastelessly tone-deaf decision to have the Slasher kill a black actress by dragging her behind a van.- Village Voice
- Posted Jun 30, 2015
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- Pete Vonder Haar
Bound to Vengeance strains credibility (seriously, she never calls the cops?) and swerves dangerously close to exploitation often enough that its semi-clever premise can't keep it on course.- Village Voice
- Posted Jun 23, 2015
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- Village Voice
- Posted Jun 23, 2015
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- Pete Vonder Haar
Ferrara, best known as "Turtle" on HBO's Entourage, plays what is essentially a muted version of that character. Abeckaser is more believable, which is unsurprising, since the movie is loosely based on his own experiences.- Village Voice
- Posted May 26, 2015
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- Pete Vonder Haar
Perhaps even more disturbing than the Dickensian in extremis ordeal of Svalka life — including her rational yet heartbreaking decision to give up her baby rather than raise it in the dump — is Yula's straightforward acceptance of her situation.- Village Voice
- Posted May 19, 2015
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- Pete Vonder Haar
The movie works because Christina's desire to help these kids feels natural, and because she herself shoulders burdens that would drive most people to the grave, all without losing her faith.- Village Voice
- Posted May 5, 2015
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- Pete Vonder Haar
What starts as a somewhat charming — if prosaic — story of love in the time of gentrification inexplicably spends most of its third act mired in the finer points of apartment hunting, like a tastefully lit HGTV show.- Village Voice
- Posted May 5, 2015
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- Pete Vonder Haar
Messina, making his directorial debut, keeps it simple. Alex undergoes a surprising amount of personal maturation in a week, but Winstead never lets the character bog down in excessive navel-gazing.- Village Voice
- Posted Apr 14, 2015
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- Pete Vonder Haar
Home Sweet Hell is a pleasantly unpleasant dark comedy, one that gives new meaning to "detached and subdivided" in the mass production zone.- Village Voice
- Posted Mar 10, 2015
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- Pete Vonder Haar
In spite of the tatty "coming of age" familiarity, Johnson's vision seems fresh and vibrant.- Village Voice
- Posted Feb 17, 2015
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