ROTTEN TOMATOES: David Germain

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

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	Journey to the Center of the Earth
	Barbershop
	Penelope
	The Spiderwick Chronicles
	Grace is Gone
	Nine Lives
	Transformers
	Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard
	1408
	Hot Fuzz
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	Hancock
	The Love Guru
	The Happening
	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
	88 Minutes
	Leatherheads
	Operation Inchon
	21
	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!
	Vantage Point
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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2.5/4	"With crisp images and depth that makes you feel you could reach out and stick your hand into the middle of the action, the movie projected in digital 3-D form actually makes that theme-park ride kind of fun." -- Associated Press Posted Jul 11, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	60%
	"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	Hancock (2008)	38%
	"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	The Love Guru (2008)	15%
	"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	The Happening (2008)	19%
	"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	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%
	"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	88 Minutes (2008)	6%
	"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	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
	"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 2, 2008	Operation Inchon ()	n/a
	"Lack of originality is where 21 really deals a losing hand." -- Associated Press Posted Mar 27, 2008	21 (2008)	35%
	"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	Barbershop (2002)	83%
	"Horton may hear a Who, but the rest of us may hear a lot of hoopla, and it's not all the charming sort you expect from a benign Seussian world." -- Associated Press Posted Mar 12, 2008	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
	"No offense intended, but a pig snout is very becoming on Christina Ricci." -- Associated Press Posted Feb 27, 2008	Penelope (2008)	52%
	"*The assassination thriller Vantage Point* might have been a triumph of form over content, technique over substance, if only there were anything worthy about its form or technique.*" -- Associated Press* Posted Feb 20, 2008	Vantage Point (2008)	35%
	"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	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	79%
	"*Truth be told, everyone and everything about Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins* is pretty unlikable.*" -- Associated Press* Posted Feb 8, 2008	Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)	24%
	"Everything about the movie is as clunky and unimaginative as the title." -- Associated Press Posted Jan 29, 2008	Over Her Dead Body (2008)	14%
	"The movie might satisfy bloodthirsty action fans, but for most people, this is one Stallone do-over we could have done without." -- Associated Press Posted Jan 24, 2008	Rambo (2008)	35%
	" Nicholson and Freeman are so lovably companionable, they almost make you forget the glaring contrivances screenwriter Justin Zackham concocts." -- Associated Press Posted Jan 9, 2008	The Bucket List (2007)	42%
	"*As with the first movie, Book of Secrets* leaps around like a choppy travel documentary.*" -- Associated Press* Posted Dec 21, 2007	National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007)	31%
	"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	Grace is Gone (2007)	57%
	"With boundless ambition far exceeding his ability to tell a coherent story, Kelly manages only an artistic apocalypse." -- Associated Press Posted Nov 14, 2007	Southland Tales (2007)	34%
	"Much of the movie plays like a civics lesson." -- Associated Press Posted Nov 7, 2007	Lions for Lambs (2007)	28%
	"Cusack and Coleman are on screen together most of the movie, and the fact that they don�t completely overstay their welcome amid the maudlin action says a lot for the restraint they bring to the characters." -- Associated Press Posted Oct 31, 2007	Martian Child (2007)	30%
C	"A surprisingly plain, sappy, even insipid comedy, considering the filmmaker behind it." -- Associated Press Posted Oct 26, 2007	Dan in Real Life (2007)	65%
	"You can only see so many snarling hissy fits by vampires with perpetually bloody chins before they start looking less like monsters and more like ill-tempered circus clowns whose makeup is running." -- Associated Press Posted Oct 17, 2007	30 Days of Night (2007)	49%
	"*Like The Yards, We Own the Night* is broody to the point of anesthesia and operatic to the verge of bombast. And like its predecessor, the new film takes itself far too seriously.*" -- Associated Press* Posted Oct 9, 2007	We Own The Night (2007)	54%
	"Peter and Bobby Farrelly's take on the 1972 Neil Simon-Elaine May original is not nearly as funny as you'd like for a movie that reunites them with There's Something About Mary star Ben Stiller in another gross-out romance." -- Associated Press Posted Oct 4, 2007	The Heartbreak Kid (2007)	29%
B-	"The stories are sketches, often without resolution, and while individual segments succeed admirably, taken together the portraits are a fitful match." -- Associated Press Posted Oct 1, 2007	Nine Lives (2005)	75%
	"It's certainly a goodhearted story, and the movie does offer a little plot twist that deviates from the usual formula. After that, though, The Game Plan quickly reverts to the established playbook for safe, sappy family fare." -- Associated Press Posted Sep 26, 2007	The Game Plan (2007)	27%
	"*While Mr. Bean's Holiday* is hardly a memorable vacation, Atkinson proves an agreeably silly tour guide.*" -- Associated Press* Posted Aug 20, 2007	Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)	50%
	"The early intensity of Sunshine wanes in the third act. The film becomes a ferocious jumble, and rather than a supernova finish, it winks out amid stale New Age notions of the continuity of life and connectedness of all things." -- Associated Press Posted Jul 17, 2007	Sunshine (2007)	75%
	"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	Transformers (2007)	57%
	"Familiarity is not quite breeding contempt for Harry and his friends and enemies. But it's starting to breed indifference." -- Associated Press Posted Jul 9, 2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)	77%
	"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	Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)	81%
	"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	1408 (2007)	78%
	"Amid all the vapid dialogue and visual fireworks, the performances seem like afterthoughts, particularly those of Gruffudd and Alba." -- Associated Press Posted Jun 13, 2007	The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)	35%
	"Ocean's Thirteen still feels like one trip too many to the craps table, playing the same hunches, with the outcome unimaginatively clear from the start: Categorical victory for the rascally good guys, utter defeat and humiliation for the villain." -- Associated Press Posted Jun 6, 2007	Ocean's Thirteen (2007)	70%
	"When your best character is a serial killer�s imaginary friend, you know your movie�s in trouble." -- Associated Press Posted May 30, 2007	Mr. Brooks (2007)	56%
2/4	"*There are a couple of genuinely funny sight gags, but most of the roadside attractions of Wild Hogs* are either boring or outright annoying.*" -- Los Angeles Daily News* Posted May 12, 2007	Wild Hogs (2007)	15%
	"We've heard that before. And we've seen it all before, as this woeful sequel presents a strained story and a barrage of turgid action that looks like inferior outtakes from the first movie." -- Associated Press Posted May 8, 2007	28 Weeks Later (2007)	71%
	"Lucky You is a curiously ordinary and uninvolving tale from the filmmaker behind such insightful character pieces as Wonder Boys and L.A. Confidential." -- Associated Press Posted May 4, 2007	Lucky You (2007)	28%
	"*The paranormal thriller Next* shows how a solid crew of filmmakers and performers can apply a big-studio budget to a good story idea and still have absolutely everything come out wrong.*" -- Associated Press* Posted Apr 26, 2007	Next (2007)	29%
	"Unfortunately, after setting up this fresh blue-collar scenario in the movie's first hour, Del Toro wallows in pyrotechnics." -- Associated Press Posted Apr 18, 2007	Hellboy (2004)	80%
	"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	Hot Fuzz (2007)	90%
	"Part of the filmmakers' point is that any old nutcase might be lurking behind the drawn curtains of the house next to you in just such an anonymous locale. Still makes for a mighty limiting, boring place to set a movie, though." -- Associated Press Posted Apr 10, 2007	Disturbia (2007)	67%
	"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	The Hoax (2007)	85%
	"[There's] enough funny material for a great little Saturday Night Live sketch. The trouble is, there's an extra 80 minutes or so of down time in which Ferrell, Heder and their co-stars are pretty much repeating their characters' shallow schtick." -- Associated Press Posted Mar 27, 2007	Blades of Glory (2007)	69%
	"[The film] has enough buoyancy to remain afloat, though without the vigor of Terrence Howard and the charm of Bernie Mac, it likely would sink in its own sea of clich�s." -- Associated Press Posted Mar 20, 2007	Pride (2007)	46%
	"A quiet powerhouse of a film, an implacable, uncompromising French police drama, both old-fashioned and modern, that underlines the reasons impeccably made crime stories do so well on-screen." -- Associated Press Posted Mar 16, 2007	Le Petit Lieutenant (2006)	79%

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