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Glenn Whipp

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Publications:: Associated Press , Baltimore Sun , Chicago Tribune , Houston Chronicle , Los Angeles Daily News , Los Angeles Times , MSNBC , Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/5	11%	ATM (2012)	" Screenwriter Chris Sparling worked in confined spaces to far better effect before with the minimalist Ryan Reynolds thriller"Buried." He must have used his best ideas there." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 5, 2012
1/5	38%	Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)	" If it's a Funny or Die movie, where's the "die" button?" — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 1, 2012
1/5	11%	Gone (2012)	" A movie that makes "Murder on the Orient Express" feel like"The Silence of the Lambs"by comparison." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 27, 2012
3/5	29%	Underworld Awakening (2012)	" A brisk creature-feature that ditches the series' dreary mythology in favor of a more direct, action-oriented approach." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 21, 2012
2.5/5	62%	The Front Line (2012)	" A war movie not quite worth engaging." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 19, 2012
3/5	——	Spellbound (2011)	" Although much of the film's broad humor at times makes it feel like an unwanted mash-up of "Scary Movie" and "Date Movie," writer-director Hwang In-ho invests the material with enough clever scenarios to keep it engaging." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 15, 2011
2/5	4%	Abduction (2011)	" "Abduction" is just the third movie John Singleton has directed in the past decade, and it contains neither the passion nor the competence of his two previous genre efforts - "2 Fast 2 Furious" and "Four Brothers."" — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 23, 2011
3/5	38%	Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)	" Perry possesses a superb ear for the themes and emotions that connect him to his core audience, and that's on display again here, though the unconverted might grumble that the movie's many riffs and rants feel recycled from previous offerings." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2011
3/5	82%	Wretches & Jabberers (2011)	" Though the movie can be a bit meandering at times, Wurzberg deserves credit for keeping the focus on her subjects' humanity without being self-conscious about doing so." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 14, 2011
2.5/4	45%	Soul Surfer (2011)	" That "Soul Surfer" rates as a giant leap for this team speaks well about the conviction the movie's actors bring to the material as well as the respect afforded the Hamilton family and their faith." — Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 7, 2011
2/5	18%	You Again (2010)	" A parallel track for two generations of women to play out petty grudges and pratfall their way through the mud and muck to the inevitable group hug." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 23, 2010
2.5/5	16%	Alpha and Omega (2010)	" The story comes off as patchwork, with a climax cribbed from The Lion King and odd musical sequences that seem inspired by …ahem, classic Mariah Carey. It's not quite the vision of love intended." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 17, 2010
4/5	——	Chosin (2010)	" Though it's a bit short on context and detail, the movie boasts a host of riveting interviews with the men caught behind enemy lines in the brutal winter battle at North Korea's Chosin Reservoir." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 17, 2010
3.5/5	76%	Nanny McPhee Returns (2010)	" Thompson again wrote the screenplay, putting an emphasis on language, emotion and manners, qualities typically in short supply in movies geared toward families." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 19, 2010
2/5	14%	Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)	" Better than the original Cats & Dogs. But so is a rabies shot." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 30, 2010
3.5/5	85%	Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) (2010)	" For the majority of its leisurely running time, Christian Caron's twisty thriller sports a smart sophistication along with an amazing story that's all the more remarkable for its relative anonymity in history books." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 23, 2010
3.5/5	70%	Ramona and Beezus (2010)	" Tenderness isn't a quality found much these days in the whirring-and-clanging busyness of family movies, which makes this G-rated gem's emphasis on emotion and heart all the more laudable." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 22, 2010
2.5/5	9%	Marmaduke (2010)	" It's kind of fun. For about five minutes." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 3, 2010
	63%	When You're Strange (2010)	" A formal exercise in redundancy, offering no new insights into the much mythologized rock band." — Associated Press Posted Apr 8, 2010
	92%	Vincere (2010)	" Bellocchio tells the film's historical story in an electrifying fashion, mixing in newsreel footage, on-screen slogans and Futurist art, a bit of thunder and lightning and Carlo Crivelli's boom-boom score." — Associated Press Posted Apr 2, 2010
	19%	The Last Song (2010)	" Kinnear lends the movie a dignity it doesn't deserve and stands as the only cast member whose dramatic moments aren't propped up by soaring musical cues." — Associated Press Posted Mar 30, 2010
4/5	89%	Hubble 3D (2010)	" It's a movie that not only puts you in space but lets you travel through it with a speed and wonder that would make James T. Kirk go a little weak in the knees." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 18, 2010
3/5	81%	City Island (2010)	" Garcia delivers a nerve-jangling tour de force tryout that will be appreciated by out-of-work actors for years to come." — Baltimore Sun Posted Mar 18, 2010
	53%	Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)	" In transferring the clean, precise humor of Kinney's illustrations and prose to the big-screen, the material loses just a bit of its charm." — Associated Press Posted Mar 18, 2010
2.5/5	65%	Defendor (2009)	" Stebbings is more interested in deconstructing heroism than creating a concrete world, sapping the movie of the immediacy it needs to come alive. For all its aspirations, the film never meshes into something cohesive or substantial." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 26, 2010
	72%	The Crazies (2010)	" A beautifully shot film that contains equal measures of style and gore." — Associated Press Posted Feb 24, 2010
	22%	Saint John of Las Vegas (2010)	" As a portrait of one man's journey toward dignity, Saint John isn't bad enough to create its own special circle of hell. As a comedy, though, it's anything but divine." — Associated Press Posted Jan 27, 2010
	28%	Extraordinary Measures (2010)	" Fraser brings earnest sincerity to the role of the heroic dad, but all the lip quivering in the world can't overcome the movie's turgid presentation." — Associated Press Posted Jan 21, 2010
	21%	Leap Year (2010)	" There's not one surprising moment in the script, but Adams and Goode allow you to look past the familiar and develop a rooting interest in them as a couple." — Associated Press Posted Jan 8, 2010
	21%	Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)	" Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel offers exactly two big laughs for its kiddo target audience -- one involves passing gas, the other a shot to the crotch." — Associated Press Posted Dec 22, 2009
	12%	Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)	" Did you hear about the Morgans? If so, you might wish you hadn't." — Associated Press Posted Dec 18, 2009
1/5	20%	Motherhood (2009)	" Whiny and self-involved, Thurman's mother of two sees judgment around every corner and believes the universe has conspired against her because the bakery misspelled her daughter's name on a birthday cake." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 7, 2009
3/5	42%	Armored (2009)	" Armored won't win any prizes, but it does offer comforting evidence that there's still room for a well-crafted B movie among CG-laden spectacles." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 7, 2009
	46%	Everybody's Fine (2009)	" De Niro offers a master class of mannered, minimalist acting." — Associated Press Posted Dec 2, 2009
	26%	Ninja Assassin (2009)	" Since the ninjas only come out when it's dark, most of the movie's fight scenes are low on both visibility and excitement." — Associated Press Posted Nov 24, 2009
2/5	22%	Planet 51 (2009)	" Instead of spinning its spoof of 1950s sci-fi paranoia in new directions, the movie trades in potty humor and tired sendups of The Terminator and Star Wars." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 19, 2009
	66%	The Blind Side (2009)	" Writer-director John Lee Hancock wisely lets the true story of Michael Oher speak for itself." — Associated Press Posted Nov 18, 2009
	26%	Women in Trouble (2009)	" The attractive cast, notably the earthy Gugino, tries hard to invest the one-note characters with a degree of humanity, but are betrayed at every turn by the thin material." — Associated Press Posted Nov 11, 2009
	18%	The Fourth Kind (2009)	" The flat-lining, alien-abduction thriller The Fourth Kind offers a close encounter that buries an interesting idea under a barrage of gimmicky, carnivallike hokum." — Associated Press Posted Nov 5, 2009
2.5/5	50%	Astro Boy (AstroBoy) (2009)	" There's very little that the filmmakers haven't borrowed here, making Astro Boy feel as copied as its title character." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 23, 2009
2/5	25%	Law Abiding Citizen (2009)	" Say what you will about Death Wish, but Charles Bronson was never boring." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 16, 2009
2/5	63%	Peter and Vandy (2009)	" Their "authenticity" frequently trumps their ability to engage us." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 8, 2009
1/5	7%	Whiteout (2009)	" No event occurs without a character telling us what we're seeing. This unwelcome commentary is so overdone that it becomes, by the end, an invitation for audience participation. All together now: It's a body! Looks like it's been shot in the head!" — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 11, 2009
1.5/5	30%	Gamer (2009)	" It's a deeply cynical and joyless point of view, completely lacking in the winking visual style that made Crank worth a look." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 8, 2009
4/5	89%	World's Greatest Dad (2009)	" For all of its cutting cynicism, Dad proves unexpectedly moving in its portrait of a middle-aged man leaving childish things behind." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 28, 2009
2/5	21%	Spread (2009)	" Its formulaic, unconvincing story adds little to the conversation about slack ambition, mutual exploitation and evolving social mores." — Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 14, 2009
3/5	60%	A Perfect Getaway (2009)	" Twohy correctly banks on the fact that his audience will be too busy sifting through those aforementioned "red snappers" to care about the details." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 7, 2009
3/5	31%	Aliens in the Attic (2009)	" The extraterrestrials get title billing but Hoffman steals the show." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 31, 2009
2/5	56%	Orphan (2009)	" Clocking in at more than two hours, the movie teeters between psychological horror and violent blood-letting and, as such, probably won't completely satisfy fans in either camp." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 24, 2009

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