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Critics / Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
  • Official Websites:
    TheMovieBoy.com

DUSTIN PUTMAN

Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Biography: Dustin Putman is a film critic from the Washington, DC area. An alumnus of American University, he would review movies as a child, but his teen years saw hobby turn into passion and his life as an internet film critic began. Dustin was soon accepted by the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) as a charter member and, in 2001, TheMovieBoy.com was born. Since then, he has become a member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and has published over 1,500 full length reviews. Dustin has been quoted in print advertising, magazine articles, on DVD covers, and in television commercials.

Publications: TheMovieBoy.com

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 1750
Total QuickRatings: 2

Location: Frederick, Maryland, USA

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Fresh
3.5/4

Fresh
71%

Bruno (2009)

" A politically-incorrect savior, that rare comedy that revels in bad taste while also actually having something worthwhile to say about the world we live in and the senselessness of stereotypes."

Posted Jul 9, 2009

Fresh
2.5/4

Fresh
87%

Humpday (2009)

" A warm and usually winning shoestring-budgeted effort that proves money does not equate to real talent."

Posted Jul 9, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
13%

I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)

" An honest, earnest, dryly cutting coming-of-age comedy. Travels down a road of nostalgia that accurately portrays that very specific moment in a person's life when he or she realizes high school—and childhood—is over for good."

Posted Jul 9, 2009

Fresh
2.5/4

Fresh
88%

Moon (2009)

" Esoteric and a little frightening, a serious-minded sci-fi rumination for viewers who strive for more out of their genre pieces than pyrotechnics and jive-talking scraps of metal."

Posted Jul 9, 2009

Rotten
1.5/4

Fresh
66%

Public Enemies (2009)

" Downright amazing in the ways it has gone wrong. Taking into account the talent involved in front of and behind the camera, the finished product is almost a travesty."

Posted Jun 30, 2009

Rotten
1.5/4

Rotten
45%

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

" The third and easily most haggard entry in the disposable franchise."

Posted Jun 30, 2009

Fresh
2.5/4

Fresh
96%

The Hurt Locker (2009)

" A raw and unnerving thriller that gets its impact from taut, intimate suspense scenes low on bombast and high on the potential costs of military duty."

Posted Jun 29, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
44%

My Sister's Keeper (2009)

" A motion picture of notable sensitivity and beauty, hamstrung emotions kept to a minimum. Tough, touchy, provocative, and exceptionally moving."

Posted Jun 25, 2009

Rotten
0/4

Rotten
19%

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

" Putrid, offensive and life-sucking. Early word is describing this woebegone fiasco as the next Batman and Robin. Having seen both, Joel Schumacher has every right to protest the comparison."

Posted Jun 23, 2009

Fresh
2.5/4

Rotten
46%

Whatever Works (2009)

" Minor, to be sure, but Woody Allen's most unabashedly sunny movie in years."

Posted Jun 18, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
17%

Year One (2009)

" Creative desperation leads to slapdash boredom in Year One, a substandard Monty Python wannabe that hasn't a story so much as a series of bad, barely connected sketches."

Posted Jun 18, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
46%

The Proposal (2009)

" Bullock and Reynolds play off each other with a real zing and zeal, but the narrative journeys down an avenue so formulaic the viewer's heart shatters at the very realization of it."

Posted Jun 18, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
66%

Dead Snow (2009)

" Norwegian zombie film is pretty standard, by-the-numbers fare, so generic it might as well have been shot by a soulless Hollywood studio."

Posted Jun 18, 2009

Rotten
1.5/4

Rotten
43%

Imagine That (2009)

" Isn't so much offensively bad as it is offensively, soul-suckingly ordinary. It is safe to say the young ones will be far from riveted by a film set in the world of investment firms and financial bigwigs."

Posted Jun 11, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
50%

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)

" A complete bastardization of everything that was so taut, substantive and memorable in the classic 1974 original."

Posted Jun 11, 2009

Fresh
3.5/4

Fresh
66%

Away We Go (2009)

" A road movie made up of what feels like a half-dozen exquisitely realized short films, Away We Go sends the viewer out smiling."

Posted Jun 11, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Fresh
78%

The Hangover (2009)

" A glib, drab, fatally unfunny study in mean-spirited mediocrity. Goes down about as easily as Benadryl spiked with tequila."

Posted Jun 5, 2009

Fresh
2.5/4

Rotten
12%

My Life in Ruins (2009)

" Not a big departure from what Vardalos has done in the past, but there is less cloying artifice this time around, in a romantic comedy where the love story takes a backseat to the more meaningful tale of a lost woman coming into her own as a person."

Posted Jun 4, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
28%

Land of the Lost (2009)

" The movie races around to nowhere in particular, more concerned with rarely spectacular spectacle than a beating heart."

Posted Jun 4, 2009

Fresh
3.5/4

Fresh
93%

Drag Me To Hell (2009)

" Deliciously scary and wickedly tongue-in-cheek, Drag Me to Hell is devilish fun that cinema lovers of all kinds owe themselves to experience. So entertaining it ought to be a crime."

Posted May 28, 2009

Fresh
2.5/4

Fresh
97%

Up (2009)

" Pixar has done better in the past, but, until their next masterwork arrives, Up will do nicely as the winsome fable it is."

Posted May 28, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
58%

The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

" Sasha Grey's participation deserves to be but a footnote in the context of a compact, fascinating, meticulously constructed motion picture with far more to offer than one unfamiliar with director Steven Soderbergh might be expecting."

Posted May 26, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
44%

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

" Amy Adams, spunky and incandescent as Amelia Earhart, is so fun to watch that she almost makes up for the dopeyness surrounding her."

Posted May 21, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
27%

Dance Flick (2009)

" So is Dance Flick worth recommending? Not for everyone, or for many. But there is an exuberance in the direction, and a certain not-easily-offended audience who will eat it up. You know who you are."

Posted May 21, 2009

Fresh
2.5/4

Rotten
32%

Terminator Salvation (2009)

" The emotional element takes a backseat to the special effects, but Terminator Salvation is pulpy and fun as a rousing summer diversion, and more than respectable for being the fourth part in a twenty-five-year-old series."

Posted May 20, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
47%

Management (2009)

" An astute slice-of-life, a sympathetic character study, and an offbeat love story all rolled into one satisfying package. Mixes genre conventions with an appetizing quirkiness in an overall confection of bliss."

Posted May 15, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
37%

Angels & Demons (2009)

" Languid, over-bloated, preachy and too reliant on coincidence. Sometimes comes off as a pushy lecture produced and directed by Kirk Cameron."

Posted May 14, 2009

Rotten
.5/4

Rotten
18%

Next Day Air (2009)

" Reprehensible trash that has no business showing up on a theatrical marquee. With no one to care about, nothing to learn, and no place to go, the miserable plot just sits there and rots."

Posted May 7, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
95%

Star Trek (2009)

" Pulsates with a life and fire that the former series entries never quite equaled. So much is going on in each frame that one sits smiling for the duration, drinking in the images while yearning for a repeat viewing."

Posted May 6, 2009

Rotten
1.5/4

Rotten
36%

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

" Compared to the previous X-Men features, even the scope and grandeur feel miniscule. The movie ultimately just sits there, sputtering on fumes, without giving the audience something to invest their interests in."

Posted Apr 30, 2009

Fresh
2.5/4

Rotten
28%

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)

" Carves out a little place for itself as one of the few romantic comedies of 2009 that doesn't annoy or insult the viewer's intelligence."

Posted Apr 30, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
46%

Battle for Terra (2009)

" Sanctimonious claptrap—a 'can't-we-all-just-get-along' plea wrapped in futuristic warfare, dirty dishwater animation, and dreary plotting."

Posted Apr 30, 2009

Fresh
3.5/4

Rotten
15%

The Informers (2009)

" Aesthetically pretty, subjectively ugly, and emotionally incisive, the picture celebrates the passing of a not-so-innocent era and mourns the victims left in its wake."

Posted Apr 24, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
18%

Obsessed (2009)

" A predictable, trashily entertaining time-filler. There are signs in the first half that it could have been more than that, and this is why disappointment sets in."

Posted Apr 24, 2009

Rotten
1/4

Rotten
41%

Fighting (2009)

" A purpose-free, self-serious yawner that is just dreary, uninspired and hopelessly forgettable."

Posted Apr 23, 2009

Fresh
2.5/4

Rotten
55%

The Soloist (2009)

" Director Joe Wright may not always be able to resist self-indulgence, but credit the filmmaker for tending to the story with a pace and tone that meld commerciality with an art-house mentality."

Posted Apr 23, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
85%

Earth (2009)

" Every bit as majestic and eye-opening as the title infers."

Posted Apr 22, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
62%

Crank High Voltage (2009)

" The chaotic onslaught of gruesomely violent and graphically sexual exploitation is so ugly and ceaseless this time that it eventually numbs, and then bores, the viewer."

Posted Apr 17, 2009

Rotten
1.5/4

Rotten
56%

17 Again (2009)

" A high school fantasy where few classes are taken, tests are a figment of one's imagination, and the students, all of them stock exaggerations, roam the hallways without a thought in their puny minds."

Posted Apr 16, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
85%

State of Play (2009)

" Becomes too cute by a half and too convoluted by a whole, ultimately relying on a seemingly never-ending string of climactic plot twists and tacked-on revelations to ride the proceedings out."

Posted Apr 16, 2009

Rotten
.5/4

Rotten
13%

Dragonball: Evolution (2009)

" A few times each year, a movie comes along that makes the viewer just want to shake his or her head in disbelief at the ineptitude that has found its way to the screen. Dragonball: Evolution is amazing in its badness."

Posted Apr 10, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Rotten
51%

Observe and Report (2009)

" By taking chances and freeing itself of a safety net, the picture arrives as a welcome respite to the same-old, same-old."

Posted Apr 9, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
46%

Hannah Montana The Movie (2009)

" Likable in segments but its heart isn't quite in the right place. In its last minutes, the film spinelessly squanders the chance to be more than just sugary junk food."

Posted Apr 9, 2009

Fresh
3/4

Fresh
88%

Adventureland (2009)

" As a universal tale of the post-adolescent experience, Adventureland is knowledgeable and wise, virtually every bone in its body an honest one."

Posted Apr 2, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Rotten
28%

Fast & Furious (2009)

" As brashly dumb as all the earlier pictures in the series, but this time there is also a more rampant mean-spirited streak running through it."

Posted Apr 2, 2009

Fresh
2.5/4

Fresh
72%

Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)

" A wispy-thin but suitably quick-witted homage to the science-fiction genre, Monsters vs. Aliens is not up to par with the best of Pixar and Disney, but it is a step in the right direction."

Posted Mar 26, 2009

Rotten
1.5/4

Rotten
18%

The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

" Begins with promise but quickly derails as scene after scene becomes mere setup for predictable 'boo!' moments, overly flashy editing, and hokey CGI effects."

Posted Mar 26, 2009

Rotten
0/4

Fresh
66%

Duplicity (2009)

" A caper without intrigue and a romance without humanity, this disastrously wasteful star vehicle manages quite the feat by both crushing the viewer's soul and devouring their spirit in two hours flat."

Posted Mar 20, 2009

Rotten
2/4

Fresh
73%

Sunshine Cleaning (2009)

" Aims to be bittersweet and lighthearted, but its frothy side and unfocused narrative have misplaced the necessary depth needed for the story to take full flight. Sunshine Cleaning misses the mark, not because of what is there, but what isn't."

Posted Mar 19, 2009

Fresh
2.5/4

Rotten
32%

Knowing (2009)

" Alternately ludicrous, eerily plausible and just a tad overreaching, the film shares its finer points with shortcomings and comes up with an overall cinematic experience more ambitious than most big-budget special effects extravaganzas."

Posted Mar 19, 2009
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