ROTTEN TOMATOES: Dustin Putman

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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: DustinPutman.com

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

Total Reviews: 1828
Total QuickRatings: 2

Location: Frederick, Maryland, USA

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Fresh 3/4	Rotten 10%	Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)	" It doesn't pretend to be an awards contender, and yet, oddly enough this year, it's far more entertaining and astutely written than the majority of recent releases that are." Posted Dec 17, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 83%	Avatar (2009)	" *Take away the snazzy technology and what is left? Precious little. From a writing and storytelling standpoint, Avatar* is a considerable failure, not even worth a fraction of its built-in hype.**" Posted Dec 14, 2009
Rotten .5/4	Fresh 77%	Invictus (2009)	" Pulls out all the stops in its pursuit to become one of the year's most unlikely worst films." Posted Dec 10, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 85%	A Single Man (2009)	" An intimate drama with a rattling emotional core, a film about loss, despair, redemption, and the little moments in life that make all the heartache worth enduring." Posted Dec 10, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 83%	The Princess and the Frog (2009)	" Intentional or not, what kind of message does it send out that the studio's first African-American princess has to be relegated for the vast majority of screen time to the form of an amphibian?" Posted Dec 7, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 91%	Up in the Air (2009)	" Both funny and sad, life-affirming and, as with life, not always fair. Fictional characters though they are, there is such an aching intimacy and resounding spontaneity to them that they seem real. It is bittersweet to have to say good-bye." Posted Dec 3, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 46%	Everybody's Fine (2009)	" The film wobbles in limbo between affecting scenes that feel honest and don't push too hard, and others that drip with manipulation and pandering artifice. By the end, the latter unsavory sentiments win out." Posted Dec 3, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 57%	Brothers (2009)	" Good, old-fashioned writing and acting can sometimes be enough to lift potentially mediocre material to something that is worthwhile and satisfying. Imagine that." Posted Dec 3, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 5%	Old Dogs (2009)	" A flawed but likable piece of fluff with zany antics and earnest sentiment to spare. Its infectious energy and naively big heart gradually win you over." Posted Nov 24, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 72%	The Road (2009)	" The picture glimpses what it might really be like if the earth went to hell. As shattering as the sights are, turning away is out of the question." Posted Nov 24, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 31%	Ninja Assassin (2009)	" Nearly incomprehensible, the picture devolves quickly into an array of shaky cam, epilepsy-inducing editing, and blatantly fake CGI bloodshed the color of red paint." Posted Nov 24, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 71%	The Blind Side (2009)	" *If a Hallmark greeting card could throw up, the puke would come in the form of The Blind Side.*" Posted Nov 19, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 28%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" Depressingly old-fashioned verging on misogynistic." Posted Nov 19, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 23%	Planet 51 (2009)	" Do anal probe gags sound like fine family entertainment? How about multiple scenes depicting ugly gay panic? Not to worry; a penis joke referring to a male member as an 'antenna' is right around the corner." Posted Nov 19, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 39%	2012 (2009)	" Giant-sized, explosive and technically astounding. This is no less than the end of the world Roland Emmerich is dealing with, and he tosses into the pot so much delirious spectacle that, yes, there are even kitchen sinks in sight." Posted Nov 12, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 92%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" A defibrillator could have only helped." Posted Nov 12, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 44%	The Box (2009)	" Goes off on a bunch of wild, convoluted tangents that don't add up and grow sillier by the minute. By the time nosebleed epidemics, watery portals and NASA experiments are added into the mix, the picture has walked off a ledge it never recovers from." Posted Nov 5, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 91%	Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)	" Precious is a rarefied beauty, an innately human story that offers inspiration without sap, fleeting hope without contrivance, ultimate redemption with sincerity. One of the year's best and boldest." Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 54%	The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)	" A loopy, fact-scattered comedy close to woeful in its failure at producing laughs and some much-needed levity. If there is some big, meaningful point to the film, it is lost in a landmine of slapstick and mugging." Posted Nov 5, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 18%	The Fourth Kind (2009)	" *In a land of recycled ideas and remakes, The Fourth Kind* is a valiant original, no matter how deceptive it may ultimately be.**" Posted Nov 5, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 55%	Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)	" Children not already familiar with the past iterations of A Christmas Carol will be in heaven if they can get past the spookier elements, while the rest of viewers will be happy with, if not quite euphoric for, what Robert Zemeckis has cooked up." Posted Nov 5, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 16%	Gentlemen Broncos (2009)	" An uneven comedy that gets high scores for the amount of laughs it does provide. My assessment? Normal is overrated." Posted Nov 4, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 94%	An Education (2009)	" A resonant coming-of-age story, at once tough and delicate, that signifies how much times have changed in the proceeding fifty years, and, in other ways, how much they have stayed the same." Posted Nov 4, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 80%	Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)	" The film paints Michael Jackson in a glorious light, making certain that, since he did not live to see his visions come to fruition on the London stage, this cinematic rough draft would be a swan song worth being proud of." Posted Oct 28, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 45%	Saw VI (2009)	" The good news: it is easily a step up from the worthless, dirge-worthy likes of Saw IV and Saw V. The not-so-good news, then, is that the film is still unnecessary and convoluted, the series having long since run out of steam and freshness." Posted Oct 23, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 48%	Astro Boy (2009)	" A morbidly insensitive insult." Posted Oct 22, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 37%	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)	" There is an undoubted vision behind the cameras, one that is bound to only crystallize if the powers-that-be give this potential new franchise the nurturing it deserves." Posted Oct 22, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 21%	Amelia (2009)	" Overly glorifies its human subject, cautious to get its hands dirty and dig beneath the surface of Earhart's public life. And yet, even so, Hilary Swank is a joy to watch." Posted Oct 22, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 11%	The Stepfather (2009)	" The Stepfather is studio-produced drivel that puts a negative label on horror movies and psychological chillers. The only pleasure to be had from watching it is to so easily be able to pick it apart." Posted Oct 16, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 24%	Law Abiding Citizen (2009)	" *When does a highly watchable movie stop being a beacon of enjoyment and turn into a morally reprehensible insult? For one, when its name happens to be Law Abiding Citizen.*" Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 73%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" *Bold and cinematic, at once wondrously epic yet achingly intimate and honest. Touting it as this century's answer to 1939's The Wizard of Oz* would not be flagrant hyperbole.**" Posted Oct 15, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 87%	A Serious Man (2009)	" A faint promising shadow of the potential masterwork it should have been." Posted Oct 8, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 12%	Couples Retreat (2009)	" *After traveling to Eden with the shallow, self-involved, unpleasant twits that populate Couples Retreat, you'll be wishing they'd all have packed their bags and gone straight to hell, instead.*" Posted Oct 8, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 50%	Antichrist (2009)	" A fairy tale gone fatalistically wrong, the stark opposite of happily ever after. Impresses with its sheer dauntless, sobering nerve." Posted Oct 8, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 87%	The House of the Devil (2009)	" Puts to shame most major studio horror releases. Classy even while getting down-and-dirty, unusually savvy about the importance of tension and character nuance over viscera and a soulless body count." Posted Oct 8, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 82%	Paranormal Activity (2009)	" The viewer walks out of Paranormal Activity wishing there was more to it, while acknowledging all the same that the film's cumulative impact is formidable, permeating long after the lights have come up." Posted Oct 2, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 75%	Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)	" Anyone up on current events and at least passingly familiar with the history of the U.S. will learn few new insights. What they will learn is that they have seen this all before, and done better, by a director who seems to be going through the paces." Posted Oct 1, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 57%	The Invention of Lying (2009)	" Perhaps bites off more than it can comfortably chew, but isn't without a pleasing portion of food for thought for viewers tired of being unchallenged by mainstream studio fare." Posted Oct 1, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 83%	Whip It (2009)	" *Never less than sheer fun, Whip It* enlivens Bliss' touching journey and makes roller derby seem so much cooler than boring old football or basketball.**" Posted Oct 1, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 89%	Zombieland (2009)	" Playing like a useful survival guide to an undead outbreak, a guts-filled horror film that turns George Romero on his head, and a knowing, occasionally referential screwball comedy, Zombieland is a zippy blast." Posted Oct 1, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 27%	Pandorum (2009)	" By the time one of the creatures tosses a character a pipe and they proceed to martial arts fight, it's safe to presume that a shark has been jumped and there is no turning things around." Posted Sep 25, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 40%	Surrogates (2009)	" Broaches topical subjects with a meditative quality that blends nicely with its dark brand of not-so-far-off fantasy." Posted Sep 25, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 72%	The Boys Are Back (2009)	" Where's Thin Lizzy when you need them?" Posted Sep 24, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 27%	Fame (2009)	" Some of the students specialize in classical music, others in dance, and still others in singing and acting, but the one thing they all have in common is their apparent enrollment in Clich�s 101." Posted Sep 24, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 18%	Love Happens (2009)	" A surprisingly thoughtful romantic drama saddled with a climactic scene so cloying and artificial that one can hardly believe it's part of the same movie. And yet, what surrounds this five-minute faux pas is really kind of great." Posted Sep 17, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 44%	Jennifer's Body (2009)	" Jennifer's Body could strip away its violence and otherworldly elements and would still work as a supernaturally-tinged emblem of teenage life." Posted Sep 17, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 77%	The Informant! (2009)	" *Repetitive to the point of supreme annoyance, The Informant!* would have been better informed with a page-one rewrite.**" Posted Sep 17, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 85%	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)	" It is often not the case that genuine originality shines through in studio filmmaking, but that feat has been more than achieved here." Posted Sep 17, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 23%	Sorority Row (2009)	" In spite of a peppy pace and speckles of inspiration here and there, Sorority Row feels empty and laborious when it should be fun, insincere when it should be earnest. Much like the sisters of Theta Pi, a brain couldn't have hurt, too." Posted Sep 11, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 6%	Whiteout (2009)	" When serious moments are accompanied again and again by collective widespread laughter from an otherwise well-behaved audience, it is a tell-tale sign that something has gone very wrong in translation from page to screen." Posted Sep 10, 2009

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