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David Germain

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
Total Reviews:
318
Total QuickRatings:
1

Best Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
A 90% Kinsey (2004) — Journal News (Westchester, NY)
Posted Nov 13, 2004
A- 81% Ray (2004) — Journal News (Westchester, NY)
Posted Oct 30, 2004
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
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
B+ 17% La tigre e la neve (The Tiger and the Snow) (2006) " Like Life Is Beautiful, The Tiger and the Snow incongruously offers sharp laughs and touches of tenderness amid moments of drama and danger." — Associated Press
Posted Dec 29, 2006
B+ 95% Wordplay (2006) " A light, breezy documentary that introduces us to a genial gang of crossword puzzle fans whose passion for the pastime is gleefully infectious." — Associated Press
Posted Jun 23, 2006
B+ 76% Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas) (2006) " An elegantly crafted drama that derives its eerie, ethereal mood as much from the sounds of war -- and their absence -- as the sights of combat." — Associated Press
Posted Mar 10, 2006
B+ 83% Finding Neverland (2004) — Journal News (Westchester, NY)
Posted Nov 13, 2004
3/4 94% The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) " A marvel of image and color, its old-fashioned pen-and-ink frames vividly bringing to life the world of children's author Mary Norton's "The Borrowers."" — Associated Press
Posted Feb 14, 2012
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
3/4 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
81% Countdown to Zero (2010) " Offers a chilling look at current nuclear arsenals and the weapons programs of North Korea and Iran." — Associated Press
Posted Jul 22, 2010
41% The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) " It's a fairly fun time for families, and Hollywood can -- and continually does -- build franchises out of far worse concoctions than this." — Associated Press
Posted Jul 15, 2010
93% The Kids Are All Right (2010) " Cholodenko and her cast turn what could have been an utterly artificial story into a warm, funny, sharp-tongued and broiling examination of the volatility underlying even the happiest of families." — Associated Press
Posted Jul 7, 2010
80% Cyrus (2010) " Despite their weird interrelations, these mismatched folks do seem like people you might know for real, the players in another of life's random acts of kinkiness that help to keep our curious species fresh and interesting." — Associated Press
Posted Jun 17, 2010
94% Winter's Bone (2010) " Winter's Bone is raw, real, understated, fiercely intense and surprisingly gentle and decent amid bursts of ferocity in the rural crime culture where the story's set." — Associated Press
Posted Jun 9, 2010
74% Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot) (2010) " It's a nice palate cleanser among all the computer-generated action of Hollywood's summer blockbusters. " — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted May 24, 2010
96% Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010) " The film is a curiosity. It's both an attempted documentary of an artistic movement and a bemused examination about why the movie failed in that mission." — Associated Press
Posted Apr 16, 2010
61% The Joneses (2010) " It makes for good, although not great, satire of the consumer culture that helped wreck the economy." — Associated Press
Posted Apr 16, 2010
76% Kick-Ass (2010) " Director Matthew Vaughn has made an action comedy so bloody funny -- double emphasis on bloody -- fans might need to see it again just to catch the gags they missed from laughing so hard the first time." — Associated Press
Posted Apr 14, 2010
97% A Prophet (Un prophete) (2010) " Audiard has talked about the prospects of a sequel to A Prophet. With the foundation he has built here, it would be a welcome one." — Associated Press
Posted Apr 2, 2010
65% Warlords (Tau ming chong) (2010) " While Li, Lau and Kaneshiro bring warmth, humor and pathos to their roles as blood brothers bound for tragedy, they're better to watch in action or when quietly brooding than when pontificating on what they owe to one another and the warriors they lead." — Associated Press
Posted Apr 1, 2010
98% How to Train Your Dragon (2010) " With How to Train Your Dragon, the filmmakers tone down the glib factor and tell a pretty good action yarn, a boy-and-his-dragon story filled with fiery Viking battles, swordplay and dazzling aerial imagery aboard the flying reptiles." — Associated Press
Posted Mar 23, 2010
75% Greenberg (2010) " Greenberg is a perceptive look at coming to terms with, if not entirely embracing, the life you weren't expecting and by no means wanted." — Associated Press
Posted Mar 16, 2010
68% The Runaways (2010) " Stewart and Fanning handle the vocals admirably, their live performances blending seamlessly with actual Runaways recordings on the soundtrack." — Associated Press
Posted Mar 16, 2010
90% Fish Tank (2010) " Writer-director Andrea Arnold has created something so real and raw, you may come away with a twinge of guilty voyeurism, a sense of peering too closely and impolitely into other people's lives." — Associated Press
Posted Mar 5, 2010
84% The Ghost Writer (2010) " Brosnan and Williams are the real highlights, both such dynamos that you feel their absence and yearn for their return during the long stretches when McGregor is mucking about on his own." — Associated Press
Posted Feb 26, 2010
46% Creation (2010) " As period dramas go, Creation is quiet and modest, sparse in action and decked out with classy but unassuming costumes and sets." — Associated Press
Posted Jan 21, 2010
70% Sherlock Holmes (2009) " Ritchie piles on the excess. It serves him well in fashioning a dazzling, detailed version of 1880s London, with the pardon-our-dust construction of the landmark Tower Bridge a pivotal element." — Associated Press
Posted Dec 21, 2009
75% The Young Victoria (2009) " The Young Victoria is good, old-fashioned period drama _ not terribly lively, not terribly insightful, but rich in pageantry and fine moments of drama, the whole show hinging on a beguiling performance from Blunt." — Associated Press
Posted Dec 18, 2009
91% Crazy Heart (2009) " The songs become anthems inhabited by Bridges, whose Bad Blake may wish his life had turned out differently but is never going to dribble tears in his shot glass so long as he still can find a stage somewhere to belt out a tune." — Associated Press
Posted Dec 15, 2009
84% The Princess and the Frog (2009) " Ron Clements and John Musker deliver a satisfying gumbo of snappy dialogue, lovable characters and bright-hued images, spiced up with just the right touch of voodoo peril." — Associated Press
Posted Dec 9, 2009
91% Up in the Air (2009) " Reitman has an impeccable talent for tearing out the spine of a novel and transposing it to the big screen, streamlining and simplifying a literary work without dumbing it down." — Associated Press
Posted Dec 2, 2009
89% Red Cliff (Chi Bi) (2009) " What remains on screen is impressive -- grand battles, dazzling action, sumptuous sets, magnificent panoramas. What's lost in the abbreviation is the emotional element as Woo chronicles an epic clash of warriors in the 3rd century." — Associated Press
Posted Nov 18, 2009
93% Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) " It may not merit the adjective in its title, yet the animated yarn Fantastic Mr. Fox offers some of the most goofy fun you'll have at a theater this season." — Associated Press
Posted Nov 11, 2009
91% Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) " Lee Daniels, in just his second film as director, crafts a story that rises from the depths of despair to a place of genuine hope." — Associated Press
Posted Nov 3, 2009
84% Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) " Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the franchise's best so far, blending rich drama and easy camaraderie among the actors with the visual spectacle that until now has been the real star of the series." — Associated Press
Posted Jul 14, 2009
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
19% Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) " Reasonably fun if generally forgettable." — Associated Press
Posted Aug 11, 2008
82% 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
52% Penelope (2006) " No offense intended, but a pig snout is very becoming on Christina Ricci." — Associated Press
Posted Feb 27, 2008
80% 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
62% 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
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
82% 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
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
91% Hot Fuzz (2007) " What you get from Hot Fuzz is what you rarely see from Hollywood: Something genuinely smart and silly at the same time, a film and filmmakers that respect their characters, their audience and the genre at which they lovingly poke fun." — Associated Press
Posted Apr 16, 2007
85% The Hoax (2007) " The film is a timely reminder that even the savviest and most skeptical audience can get snookered by the natural desire for a great story." — Associated Press
Posted Apr 4, 2007
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