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David Germain

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% 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 Chronicle , San Francisco Examiner , Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
1.5/4	42%	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)	" The presence of actors as good as Caine and Guzman only highlights how dreadful and dumb the banter is." — Associated Press Posted Feb 8, 2012
1.5/4	13%	W.E. (2012)	" The question that needs to be asked about Madonna's "W.E." is why?" — Associated Press Posted Feb 3, 2012
2/4	45%	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012)	" A cloying exercise in sentimentality, the film also winds up extremely annoying, even infuriating." — Associated Press Posted Dec 19, 2011
3/4	93%	Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011)	" Whatever the movie's shortcomings, director Bird more than compensates with a bullet train of action and an arsenal of cool gadgets. Maybe making cartoons has expanded his conception of what's possible in a live film." — Associated Press Posted Dec 13, 2011
3.5/4	87%	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)	" Craig is an anchor of cool rationality and judiciousness around which Mara revolves like a demon." — Associated Press Posted Dec 13, 2011
1.5/4	22%	The Sitter (2011)	" "The Sitter" really fails in the physical comedy department with an assault of mean, humorless sight gags." — Associated Press Posted Dec 8, 2011
3/4	96%	The Muppets (2011)	" "The Muppets'' marks a very welcome return for Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the rest of Jim Henson's creations after a 12-year big-screen absence." — Associated Press Posted Nov 19, 2011
3/4	92%	Arthur Christmas (2011)	" In her directing debut, Aardman veteran Sarah Smith and her co-writer Peter Baynham offer a fresh look at the Santa legend: a flawed Claus." — Associated Press Posted Nov 17, 2011
3/4	44%	Happy Feet Two (2011)	" Sticks to the formula of the original while adding enough variety to give it a life of its own." — Associated Press Posted Nov 14, 2011
1.5/4	59%	Real Steel (2011)	" It's hard to buy into the notion that fans could ever be as rabid to watch a couple of machines tear each other apart as they are to see two men sweating and straining and bleeding on the canvas. Without human consequence, where's the drama?" — Associated Press Posted Oct 4, 2011
1.5/4	24%	What's Your Number? (2011)	" "What's Your Number?" sticks to the low common denominators of most Hollywood romances, and it ends up a commonplace one for doing so." — Associated Press Posted Sep 28, 2011
2/4	59%	Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (2011)	" The tension del Toro and Nixey create promises much more than it delivers." — Associated Press Posted Aug 22, 2011
3.5/4	76%	The Help (2011)	" Stone, Davis and Spencer forge something quite beautiful, a sense of sisterhood and equality that unfolds with ease and grace, never feeling forced or untrue to their era and circumstances." — Associated Press Posted Aug 8, 2011
2/4	73%	The Whistleblower (2011)	" "The Whistleblower" is a one-note affair that offers glimpses of the rich, broad life Bolkovac clearly lives but deifies her into someone inaccessible and unbelievable." — Associated Press Posted Aug 3, 2011
2/4	44%	Cowboys & Aliens (2011)	" Favreau slipped from fresh and flamboyant on "Iron Man" to lame and listless on its sequel, and there's more of the latter on "Cowboys & Aliens."" — Associated Press Posted Jul 26, 2011
2/4	52%	The Devil's Double (2011)	" Cooper has done such a good job bringing Uday to life, it's a bit of a trial simply sitting in the audience and watching." — Associated Press Posted Jul 25, 2011
2/4	20%	Snow Flower And The Secret Fan (2011)	" The trouble is that the modern story whipped up for "Snow Flower" isn't very compelling. Yet it dominates the movie, continually oozing back in just as the period drama is getting interesting." — Associated Press Posted Jul 13, 2011
1.5/4	14%	Zookeeper (2011)	" James hurls himself into this sad scenario with energy and teddy-bear charm that makes him impossible to hate. But it's easy to hate "Zookeeper." If we could talk to the animals, they'd probably hate it, too." — Associated Press Posted Jul 7, 2011
	35%	Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)	" It's a thin line between the idiotically incomprehensible Revenge of the Fallen and the merely incomprehensible of Dark of the Moon." — Associated Press Posted Jun 28, 2011
	85%	A Better Life (2011)	" A fairly satisfying though by-the-numbers drama about an illegal Mexican immigrant struggling to build a decent future for his teenage son." — Associated Press Posted Jun 22, 2011
	17%	The Art of Getting By (2011)	" The players are not so much teens as miniature adults, dissecting their own natures with insightfulness that typically comes through decades of reflection, if it comes at all." — Associated Press Posted Jun 15, 2011
	89%	The Trip (2011)	" Coogan and Brydon, building their performances largely through improvisation, have such rapport that it's easy to digest their brand of affectionate chatter laced with mildly mean-spirited ribbing." — Associated Press Posted Jun 7, 2011
	87%	Submarine (2011)	" With Submarine, it's what lies beneath that counts, and it's a grand voyage tagging along with Oliver as he finds them out." — Associated Press Posted Jun 2, 2011
	87%	X-Men: First Class (2011)	" The result is one of the best Marvel adaptations, packed with action, humor, retro 1960s style that's both campy and sexy and a revisionist history lesson that puts the X-Men at the center of the Cuban missile crisis." — Associated Press Posted Jun 1, 2011
	61%	The Beaver (2011)	" With The Beaver, Gibson shows that for all his personal turmoil, he still may have a career in the twilight years." — Associated Press Posted May 20, 2011
	93%	Midnight in Paris (2011)	" Woody Allen has found the right time and the right place with "Midnight in Paris," his lightest, funniest and most-satisfying movie in a long time." — Associated Press Posted May 16, 2011
	77%	Thor (2011)	" The Norse gods are off to a decent, though not divine, start in Thor, the latest movie in Marvel Comics' big-screen expansion of its superhero pantheon." — Associated Press Posted May 3, 2011
	78%	Fast Five (2011)	" Pretty cars, prettier women, insanely absurd action that truly thrills even as it shatters all physical laws, and enough testosterone-fueled violence to satisfy the most-rabid WWE SmackDown crowd." — Associated Press Posted Apr 27, 2011
	61%	Water for Elephants (2011)	" Witherspoon and Pattinson are a three-ring snooze-fest together, bringing little passion to a love story supposedly so fiery, it blows the roof off the big top." — Associated Press Posted Apr 20, 2011
	58%	Scream 4 (2011)	" Honestly, it's not an unwelcome thing to watch the return of Neve Campbell as the slasher victim who wouldn't die, Courtney Cox as the tabloid hack in bloodlust for a story and David Arquette as the bumbling Barney Fife of fright-flick cops." — Associated Press Posted Apr 13, 2011
	26%	Arthur (2011)	" Despite Mirren's estimable presence, the new Arthur has little of its own to offer. It's the same story, told with much less heart." — Associated Press Posted Apr 6, 2011
	26%	Your Highness (2011)	" Co-writer McBride and his collaborators apparently set out on a quest to ram as much coarse language and as many adolescent sexual gags into a movie as possible, maybe to cover the fact that the movie doesn't contain much else." — Associated Press Posted Apr 6, 2011
	77%	In A Better World (2011)	" In a Better World demonstrates Danish director Susanne Biers' supreme gift at telling the gloomiest of stories that, while not exactly winding up in feel-good territory, at least finish with a strong affirmation of the decent things in life." — Associated Press Posted Mar 30, 2011
	26%	Hop (2011)	" Hop has one of the cutest bunnies you'll ever see and plenty of other eye candy among its computer-generated visuals, yet there's not much bounce to the story behind this interspecies buddy comedy." — Associated Press Posted Mar 30, 2011
	93%	Of Gods and Men (2011)	" The monks don't speak their minds often, but when they do, the actors infuse their utterances with bottomless grace and humility yet very human dread and doubt." — Associated Press Posted Mar 10, 2011
	32%	I Am Number Four (2011)	" The action tale I Am Number Four is mostly familiar stuff, presenting the latest teen outsider coming into possession of his latent superpowers just in time to battle evil forces intent on world chaos." — Associated Press Posted Feb 17, 2011
	39%	The Eagle (2011)	" It's hard to go along for the ride when the characters act more like statuary than people." — Associated Press Posted Feb 11, 2011
	19%	Just Go with It (2011)	" Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston's romantic comedy, idiotic even by their usually low big-screen standards, is stuffed with unpleasant narcissists saying and doing the stupidest, often cruelest things in hope of cheap laughs." — Associated Press Posted Feb 11, 2011
	88%	Blue Valentine (2010)	" Agonizing to watch yet relentlessly compelling." — Associated Press Posted Dec 28, 2010
	21%	Gulliver's Travels (2010)	" The movie was needlessly converted to 3-D. The images are not blurry and distracting as some 3-D conversions have been, but neither are they terribly impressive, adding nothing but a few extra dollars to the price of a ticket." — Associated Press Posted Dec 23, 2010
	10%	Little Fockers (2010)	" Grit your teeth through the fairly short though agonizing duration of its stay." — Associated Press Posted Dec 21, 2010
	91%	The Fighter (2010)	" Less a boxing drama than a drama with some boxing in it, The Fighter turns Bale loose in a supporting role that dominates director David O. Russell's film." — Associated Press Posted Dec 8, 2010
2/4	48%	Love and Other Drugs (2010)	" Despite its dramatic pretenses and far racier sex scenes than the typical studio romance, the movie is as predictable and ultimately as sappy as any other run-of-the-mill Hollywood love story." — Associated Press Posted Nov 22, 2010
	81%	Four Lions (2010)	" One of the funniest movies of the year." — Associated Press Posted Nov 12, 2010
	72%	Megamind (2010)	" Unfortunately, the underdeveloped story and characters seem to be there to service the visuals, rather than the other way around." — Associated Press Posted Nov 2, 2010
	53%	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2010)	" Lisbeth stuck in a confined space is like Superman trapped in a phone booth: It's a blueprint for a mighty boring superhero movie." — Associated Press Posted Oct 27, 2010
	68%	Conviction (2010)	" When she lands the right part, Swank delivers with as much conviction as anyone working in Hollywood today." — Associated Press Posted Oct 13, 2010
	71%	Red (2010)	" This latest adaptation of a hip graphic novel fails to fill in the spaces between the action with anything terribly interesting." — Associated Press Posted Oct 13, 2010
	63%	Secretariat (2010)	" Anyone remotely familiar with the story of Secretariat knows the outcome before the movie begins, but that Belmont climax still is intoxicating to watch." — Associated Press Posted Oct 6, 2010

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