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Critics / David Germain
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    DAVID GERMAIN

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

    Publications: Associated Press, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Canadian Press, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Houston Chronicle, Journal News (Westchester, NY), Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Examiner, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    Total Reviews: 208
    Total QuickRatings: 1

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    Rotten

    Rotten
    46%

    Whatever Works (2009)

    " The movie was emblematic of his output of late -- slight plots, slighter characters, lackadaisical storytelling that recycles enough of the neuroses-fueled charm of his earlier films to keep the Woody Allen machine in business." — Associated Press

    Posted Jun 17, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    36%

    X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

    " Sadly, Wolverine's journey is one long run-the-gauntlet scenario, with people pounding on him from all sides until he emerges at the other end as the lone-wolf amnesiac bound for membership in the X-Men gang." — Associated Press

    Posted Apr 29, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    13%

    The Pink Panther 2 (2009)

    " There are chuckles, maybe even a belly laugh or two if you're in a charitable mood. But the movie's mostly a waste of time and talent." — Associated Press

    Posted Feb 4, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    70%

    Last Chance Harvey (2008)

    " Almost inevitably, Hoffman and Thompson are charming. Even they can't turn Hopkins' thin story into a credible tale, though." — Associated Press

    Posted Dec 24, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    43%

    Yes Man (2008)

    " Deschanel and Carrey make for indifferent romantic partners. Both are pleasant enough, but no one's going to look at the two together and think, what a great couple they make." — Associated Press

    Posted Dec 18, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    20%

    The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

    " While Robert Wise's science-fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still" was a simple story of deep ideas, the remake is an overblown, puny-minded tale featuring extraterrestrials too stupid or lazy to do a background check on the species they condemn." — Associated Press

    Posted Dec 10, 2008

    Rotten

    Fresh
    64%

    Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

    " With so many characters to cram in and not much for many of them to do, Escape 2 Africa ends up a choppy, episodic affair." — Associated Press

    Posted Nov 7, 2008

    Rotten

    Fresh
    61%

    Changeling (2008)

    " It all just seems like window-dressing for Jolie's best-actress clip at the Oscars." — Associated Press

    Posted Oct 24, 2008

    Rotten

    Fresh
    86%

    Rachel Getting Married (2008)

    " No doubt it was fun assembling so many close associates, but like Kym, Demme doesn't know when enough is enough for those who aren't part of the family circle." — Associated Press

    Posted Oct 18, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    34%

    The Lucky Ones (2008)

    " [A] far-fetched take on Iraq War homecomings." — Associated Press

    Posted Sep 26, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    35%

    Igor (2008)

    " A potentially original premise and an eager voice cast led by John Cusack and Molly Shannon are left to decay amid a clunky story vaguely reminiscent of Monsters, Inc. and images often resembling visuals rejected from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride." — Associated Press

    Posted Sep 17, 2008

    Fresh

    Rotten
    59%

    RocknRolla (2008)

    " While Ritchie stumbled with his last two flicks, RocknRolla has the kind of manic energy that made audiences fall for the rogues of his earlier films." — Associated Press

    Posted Sep 5, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    17%

    Fly Me To The Moon (2008)

    " Mildly educational and not all that entertaining." — Associated Press

    Posted Aug 15, 2008

    Fresh

    Rotten
    19%

    The Clone Wars (2008)

    " Reasonably fun if generally forgettable." — Associated Press

    Posted Aug 11, 2008

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Fresh
    61%

    Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

    " With crisp images and depth that makes you feel you could reach out and stick your hand into the middle of the action, the movie projected in digital 3-D form actually makes that theme-park ride kind of fun." — Associated Press

    Posted Jul 11, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    39%

    Hancock (2008)

    " The filmmakers cannot resist embracing the conventions they were tweaking. Hancock turns from a moody, darkly funny character piece trimmed out with a bit of engaging action and veers into a poor impersonation of a standard superhero movie." — Associated Press

    Posted Jun 30, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    14%

    The Love Guru (2008)

    " Myers wants us all to love him, wants us all to be in on his jokes. But love and laughs are earned, not given just because you mug for the camera behind a wild wig and beard." — Associated Press

    Posted Jun 18, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    19%

    The Happening (2008)

    " The shock value wears off quickly and writer-director Shyamalan strands us in a boring cautionary tale with an infantile eco-message about humanity needing to live in harmony with nature -- or else." — Associated Press

    Posted Jun 13, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    54%

    Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)

    " They're such lovable goofs that you can't help wishing their quest for White Castle fast food and their flight from Gitmo could live up to the sort of sharp satire these two bright boys deserve." — Associated Press

    Posted Apr 23, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    5%

    88 Minutes (2008)

    " A stronger word than preposterous is needed to describe the, well, preposterous lengths director Jon Avnet and company go to engorge this movie with idiotic action, incomprehensible twists and loads of other nonsense." — Associated Press

    Posted Apr 16, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    52%

    Leatherheads (2008)

    " The film leaves you longing for a few Hail Mary end-zone passes, while the filmmakers stick to a story that tries to pound it out with a safe, tedious ground game." — Associated Press

    Posted Apr 3, 2008

    Rotten

    N/A

    Operation Inchon ()

    " The film leaves you longing for a few Hail Mary end-zone passes, while the filmmakers stick to a story that tries to pound it out with a safe, tedious ground game." — Associated Press

    Posted Apr 2, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    35%

    21 (2008)

    " Lack of originality is where 21 really deals a losing hand." — Associated Press

    Posted Mar 27, 2008

    Fresh

    Fresh
    83%

    Barbershop (2002)

    " Barbershop is a cozy place to hang out for a while, even if you don't need a little off the sides." — Associated Press

    Posted Mar 18, 2008

    Rotten

    Fresh
    78%

    Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)

    " Horton may hear a Who, but the rest of us may hear a lot of hoopla, and it's not all the charming sort you expect from a benign Seussian world." — Associated Press

    Posted Mar 12, 2008

    Fresh

    Rotten
    50%

    Penelope (2008)

    " No offense intended, but a pig snout is very becoming on Christina Ricci." — Associated Press

    Posted Feb 27, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    35%

    Vantage Point (2008)

    " The assassination thriller Vantage Point might have been a triumph of form over content, technique over substance, if only there were anything worthy about its form or technique." — Associated Press

    Posted Feb 20, 2008

    Fresh

    Fresh
    79%

    The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

    " The Spiderwick Chronicles may not be in the same fantasy league as the tales of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling. Yet the family flick based on the books of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black is an all-around class act." — Associated Press

    Posted Feb 13, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    24%

    Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)

    " Truth be told, everyone and everything about Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins is pretty unlikable." — Associated Press

    Posted Feb 8, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    15%

    Over Her Dead Body (2008)

    " Everything about the movie is as clunky and unimaginative as the title." — Associated Press

    Posted Jan 29, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    36%

    Rambo (2008)

    " The movie might satisfy bloodthirsty action fans, but for most people, this is one Stallone do-over we could have done without." — Associated Press

    Posted Jan 24, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    41%

    The Bucket List (2007)

    " Nicholson and Freeman are so lovably companionable, they almost make you forget the glaring contrivances screenwriter Justin Zackham concocts." — Associated Press

    Posted Jan 9, 2008

    Rotten

    Rotten
    32%

    National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007)

    " As with the first movie, Book of Secrets leaps around like a choppy travel documentary." — Associated Press

    Posted Dec 21, 2007

    Fresh

    Fresh
    60%

    Grace is Gone (2007)

    " It's stirring, even gut-wrenching, on the strength of John Cusack's terrifically restrained performance as a husband in denial over the death of his wife in Iraq." — Associated Press

    Posted Dec 5, 2007

    Rotten

    Rotten
    36%

    Southland Tales (2007)

    " With boundless ambition far exceeding his ability to tell a coherent story, Kelly manages only an artistic apocalypse." — Associated Press

    Posted Nov 14, 2007

    Rotten

    Rotten
    27%

    Lions for Lambs (2007)

    " Much of the movie plays like a civics lesson." — Associated Press

    Posted Nov 7, 2007

    Rotten

    Rotten
    30%

    Martian Child (2007)

    " Cusack and Coleman are on screen together most of the movie, and the fact that they don’t completely overstay their welcome amid the maudlin action says a lot for the restraint they bring to the characters." — Associated Press

    Posted Oct 31, 2007

    Rotten
    C

    Fresh
    65%

    Dan in Real Life (2007)

    " A surprisingly plain, sappy, even insipid comedy, considering the filmmaker behind it." — Associated Press

    Posted Oct 26, 2007

    Rotten

    Rotten
    50%

    30 Days of Night (2007)

    " You can only see so many snarling hissy fits by vampires with perpetually bloody chins before they start looking less like monsters and more like ill-tempered circus clowns whose makeup is running." — Associated Press

    Posted Oct 17, 2007

    Rotten

    Rotten
    55%

    We Own The Night (2007)

    " Like The Yards, We Own the Night is broody to the point of anesthesia and operatic to the verge of bombast. And like its predecessor, the new film takes itself far too seriously." — Associated Press

    Posted Oct 9, 2007

    Rotten

    Rotten
    30%

    The Heartbreak Kid (2007)

    " Peter and Bobby Farrelly's take on the 1972 Neil Simon-Elaine May original is not nearly as funny as you'd like for a movie that reunites them with There's Something About Mary star Ben Stiller in another gross-out romance." — Associated Press

    Posted Oct 4, 2007

    Fresh
    B-

    Fresh
    76%

    Nine Lives (2005)

    " The stories are sketches, often without resolution, and while individual segments succeed admirably, taken together the portraits are a fitful match." — Associated Press

    Posted Oct 1, 2007

    Rotten

    Rotten
    27%

    The Game Plan (2007)

    " It's certainly a goodhearted story, and the movie does offer a little plot twist that deviates from the usual formula. After that, though, The Game Plan quickly reverts to the established playbook for safe, sappy family fare." — Associated Press

    Posted Sep 26, 2007

    Rotten

    Rotten
    50%

    Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)

    " While Mr. Bean's Holiday is hardly a memorable vacation, Atkinson proves an agreeably silly tour guide." — Associated Press

    Posted Aug 20, 2007

    Rotten

    Fresh
    75%

    Sunshine (2007)

    " The early intensity of Sunshine wanes in the third act. The film becomes a ferocious jumble, and rather than a supernova finish, it winks out amid stale New Age notions of the continuity of life and connectedness of all things." — Associated Press

    Posted Jul 17, 2007

    Fresh

    Rotten
    57%

    Transformers (2007)

    " The action sequences are so turgid it's sometimes hard to tell which 'bot is doing what, but with Bay steadily hurling fireworks you won't really pause much to think about that, or about how truly inane the story is." — Associated Press

    Posted Jul 11, 2007

    Rotten

    Fresh
    77%

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

    " Familiarity is not quite breeding contempt for Harry and his friends and enemies. But it's starting to breed indifference." — Associated Press

    Posted Jul 9, 2007

    Fresh

    Fresh
    81%

    Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

    " For a pure summer power trip, it's a decent throwback to the pure-brawn heyday of Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, an agreeable respite from today's cartoonlike ballets of computer-generated action." — Associated Press

    Posted Jun 25, 2007

    Fresh

    Fresh
    78%

    1408 (2007)

    " 1408 generally survives and thrives on the strength of John Cusack's passionate performance as a skeptic of the supernatural who learns that spooks may be real, plus a spirited supporting role by Samuel L. Jackson and some effective chills." — Associated Press

    Posted Jun 19, 2007

    Rotten

    Rotten
    36%

    The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

    " Amid all the vapid dialogue and visual fireworks, the performances seem like afterthoughts, particularly those of Gruffudd and Alba." — Associated Press

    Posted Jun 13, 2007
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