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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

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
D 74% Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) — Journal News (Westchester, NY)
Posted Aug 7, 2004
69% The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2010) " While uneven, repetitive and occasionally nonsensical, The Girl Who Played With Fire still offers a fair dose of suspense and action for those who can stomach its brutal violence." — Associated Press
Posted Jul 7, 2010
49% The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) " The stars remain a boring threesome, Stewart limping through supposedly impassioned speeches as though Bella already were one of the cold-blooded undead." — Associated Press
Posted Jun 29, 2010
13% Jonah Hex (2010) " So short, and so bad, you cringe at the thought of how awful whatever ended up on the cutting-room floor must be." — Associated Press
Posted Jun 17, 2010
41% Letters to Juliet (2010) " Every turn of Letters to Juliet is obvious and expected, even insufferable." — Associated Press
Posted May 12, 2010
27% After.Life (2010) " Wojtowicz-Vosloo just piles on the nonsense back and forth in a laughably incomprehensible muddle." — Associated Press
Posted Apr 8, 2010
67% Date Night (2010) " These are two of the funniest people ever on television, yet their big-screen Date Night is a dreary, uninspired waste of their talents -- and those of the top-name cast inexplicably appearing in small throwaway roles." — Associated Press
Posted Apr 8, 2010
52% The Greatest (2010) " The movie might have resonated more if it threw out some of the grief-counseling cliches and let the idiosyncrasies of the characters dictate more of the drama." — Associated Press
Posted Apr 1, 2010
40% Don McKay (2010) " An admirable attempt even if the film only works spottily." — Associated Press
Posted Apr 1, 2010
64% Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) " The story rests too often on easy '80s potshots -- Look, a Jheri curl! Check out those leg-warmers! Can you hear me on my brick cell phone? -- and today's parlance falling on deaf '80s ears -- E-mail? What's that?" — Associated Press
Posted Mar 24, 2010
50% Chloe (2010) " Atom Egoyan's sex thriller Chloe is a pure guilty pleasure, if you take away that part about pleasure." — Associated Press
Posted Mar 23, 2010
53% Green Zone (2010) " Chandrasekaran's book is a work of sharp, informative journalism. That "inspired by" credit sounds a little insulting when the result is tired, standard action fare such as Green Zone." — Associated Press
Posted Mar 10, 2010
42% Brooklyn's Finest (2010) " Other than a few dashes of humor managed by Hawke, the movie is relentlessly bleak and barbarous, Fuqua grinding viewers down through his cavemen-with-badges depiction of police work." — Associated Press
Posted Mar 2, 2010
65% Defendor (2009) " The low-budget movie continually shifts from comic-book spoof to gritty crime story to mental-health drama, the inconsistent tone preventing it from ever fully working as one or another." — Associated Press
Posted Feb 24, 2010
69% Shutter Island (2010) " If a film is going to pile on the doom and foreboding this thickly, the payoff better be worth the hard road viewers have to slog." — Associated Press
Posted Feb 17, 2010
49% Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) " It's more a list of ingredients than a movie-magic potion to enjoy from start to finish." — Associated Press
Posted Feb 10, 2010
34% The Wolfman (2010) " There's more emotion in the monster's howls, which were created by a baritone opera singer, than in Del Toro's monotone mutterings." — Associated Press
Posted Feb 10, 2010
60% Frozen (2010) " These three are so dull the story might have had more spark and tension had Green stranded three strangers aloft on a frozen chairlift." — Associated Press
Posted Feb 2, 2010
13% The Spy Next Door (2010) " This sad little movie is built entirely to set up Chan's stunt sequences as he fights with pots, pans, ladders and other found objects or hurtles stairways to chase bad guys. The action stuff is more tolerable than the jokes, but barely." — Associated Press
Posted Jan 13, 2010
67% Daybreakers (2010) " There are more revisionist bloodsucker stories out there than you can shake a stake at nowadays, and they're getting tiresome." — Associated Press
Posted Jan 5, 2010
56% It's Complicated (2009) " The story's not entirely predictable. Yet it's anything but complicated." — Associated Press
Posted Dec 21, 2009
37% Nine (2009) " Calculated to be show-stoppers, the songs often end up as quaint throwbacks." — Associated Press
Posted Dec 15, 2009
32% The Lovely Bones (2009) " Jackson crafts lovely but ineffectual dreamscapes of the afterlife that eviscerate much of the human side of the story." — Associated Press
Posted Dec 9, 2009
5% Old Dogs (2009) " Old Dogs is no fun whatsoever, just a collection of stale kibble." — Associated Press
Posted Nov 25, 2009
28% The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) " All three lovers are so joyless, it's hard to imagine why any of them would want to spend eternity together." — Associated Press
Posted Nov 19, 2009
60% Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) (2009) " There's more Partridge Family hugginess than sedition and subversion behind this rock 'n' roll story." — Associated Press
Posted Nov 12, 2009
90% The Messenger (2009) " A story that strays about without finding its center." — Associated Press
Posted Nov 11, 2009
45% The Box (2009) " What button, on whose box, did Kelly push to get the money to make this awful, preposterous thriller?" — Associated Press
Posted Nov 4, 2009
52% The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) " In fits and starts, director Heslov captures a lot of the drolly incredulous spirit of the book. It's just too bad the dots don't connect better." — Associated Press
Posted Nov 3, 2009
86% The House of the Devil (2009) " In the end, this homage to '80s horror is little more than a faithful flashback -- authentic in execution but about as scary as something you saw again and again way back when." — Associated Press
Posted Oct 27, 2009
18% Gentlemen Broncos (2009) " The movie's a chaotic, infuriating mess that will challenge the most-devoted of the Napoleon Dynamite faithful." — Associated Press
Posted Oct 27, 2009
21% Amelia (2009) " Swank and Nair play it safe to the point of benumbing this woman's life, leaving Earhart as remote and muted as she is in the black-and-white photos and news footage of the aviator included at the film's end." — Associated Press
Posted Oct 20, 2009
50% 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
37% 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
12% 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
70% Last Chance Harvey (2009) " 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
45% 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
21% 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
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
62% Changeling (2008) " It all just seems like window-dressing for Jolie's best-actress clip at the Oscars." — Associated Press
Posted Oct 24, 2008
85% 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
36% The Lucky Ones (2008) " [A] far-fetched take on Iraq War homecomings." — Associated Press
Posted Sep 26, 2008
36% 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
19% Fly Me to the Moon (2008) " Mildly educational and not all that entertaining." — Associated Press
Posted Aug 15, 2008
40% 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
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
18% 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
53% 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
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
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
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