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DUSTIN PUTMAN
Dustin Putman

PUBLICATION(S)
TheMovieBoy.com

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.
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CONTACT INFO
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STATS
Total Reviews: 1645
Total QuickRatings: 2

CRITICS GROUP(S)
• Online Film Critics Society
• Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association

OTHER INFO
• Official Website(s)
• Location: Frederick, Maryland, USA


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4  The Dark Knight
3.5/4  Wherever You Are
3/4  The Strangers
2.5/4  Kung Fu Panda
2/4  The Incredible Hulk
1.5/4  Get Smart
1/4  You Don't Mess With The Zohan
.5/4  Righteous Kill
0/4  Disaster Movie
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4  Creepshow
4/4  Halloween
4/4  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
4/4  Synecdoche, New York
4/4  Pet Sematary
4/4  Don't Look Now
4/4  Lisa and the Devil
4/4  The Dark Knight
4/4  Cloverfield
4/4  No Country for Old Men
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/4  Disaster Movie
0/4  Meet the Spartans
0/4  Hitman
0/4  Unearthed
0/4  Dragon Wars
0/4  Epic Movie
0/4  Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
0/4  All The King's Men
0/4  The Black Dahlia
0/4  The Cave
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

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2/4
 
" Holds an archaic, pre-feminist mentality far more disturbing than any of its tame horror elements can boast."
Posted Nov 20, 2008
 
Twilight (2008)47%
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2.5/4
 
" A warm and even perceptive family film, not always original but undeniably sweet-natured."
Posted Nov 20, 2008
 
Bolt (2008)86%
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2/4
 
" The plot's development is obvious and then ridiculous, and the numerous fights and chases all begin to look alike after a while."
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
Quantum of Solace (2008)66%
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2/4
 
" An overly convenient romantic drama that feels too prefabricated to be bought into."
Posted Nov 11, 2008
 
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)91%
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2/4
 
" People may want to label this emotionally cold curiosity piece as a cult in the making, but such claims might be jumping the gun. The picture doesn't hold nearly enough charm for that."
Posted Nov 8, 2008
 
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)26%
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2/4
 
" The Boy in the Striped Pajamas could have been brilliant, and instead leaves one feeling unclean, angry, and distastefully toyed with."
Posted Nov 7, 2008
 
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)64%
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2/4
 
" Fans of Bernie Mac won't want to miss his final screen performance. Everyone else need not bother."
Posted Nov 6, 2008
 
Soul Men (2008)44%
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2/4
 
" The nonsensical title is the least of its problems--how, exactly, are the characters escaping to Africa if the place they begin is technically a part of Africa?"
Posted Nov 6, 2008
 
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)59%
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2/4
 
" When the finale of your movie involves a twenty-minute fantasy battle between role-playing enthusiasts, it is safe to say you have lost your way."
Posted Nov 6, 2008
 
Role Models (2008)76%
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2.5/4
 
" Not the be-all-end-all groundbreaker some are labeling it as, but it does put a new, sweet spin on a subgenre long in need of some freshening up."
Posted Nov 5, 2008
 
Let the Right One In (2008)97%
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3.5/4
 
" One of the most handsome, lushly detailed horror features in years. Trick 'r Treat is destined to put the most sour of souls in the Halloween spirit."
Posted Oct 30, 2008
 
Trick 'r Treat (2008)n/a
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2.5/4
 
" The very R-rated Zack and Miri Make a Porno is a compulsively watchable comedy, balls-out (literally and figuratively) and kind of adorable, too."
Posted Oct 30, 2008
 
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)64%
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4/4
 
" All of the pieces of Creepshow come together in a smorgasbord of ghastly images, welcome humor, and solid, old-fashioned storytelling."
Posted Oct 30, 2008
 
Creepshow (1982)65%
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3/4
 
" A satisfying follow-up that retains the same macabre yet spirited tone."
Posted Oct 30, 2008
 
Creepshow 2 (1987)25%
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2/4
 
" Bogged down by ridiculous plotting involving warlocks, druids and Thorn that have no place in a movie about a villain who is supposed to be 'purely and simply evil.'"
Posted Oct 29, 2008
 
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1996)4%
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3/4
 
" It is high time for viewers with a hang-up to reevaluate the pleasures that Halloween III: Season of the Witch has to offer."
Posted Oct 29, 2008
 
Halloween 3: Season of the Witch (1982)33%
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2.5/4
 
" This is an uneven Halloween addition, but also more ambitious than the norm."
Posted Oct 28, 2008
 
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)14%
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2.5/4
 
" Feels more like an obligatory teen slasher than the previous films...but gets the job done."
Posted Oct 28, 2008
 
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)22%
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3/4
 
" A more than solid if admittedly inferior continuation."
Posted Oct 28, 2008
 
Halloween II (1981)26%
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2.5/4
 
" As far as slashers go, My Bloody Valentine is fairly standard stuff. And yet, the film contains a pleasing atmosphere, turning a day dedicated to love into a day to be feared."
Posted Oct 27, 2008
 
My Bloody Valentine (1981)25%
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4/4
 
" To call Halloween merely brilliant isn't giving it enough credit. As a horror film and as a historical milestone that single-handedly shaped and altered the future of an entire genre, it's downright transcendent."
Posted Oct 27, 2008
 
Halloween (1978)91%
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3/4
 
" Practically dripping with the blood, sweat and tears of those who set out to make a genuinely good party movie"
Posted Oct 27, 2008
 
Night of the Demons (1989)n/a
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3/4
 
" An uncompromisingly wicked, subjectively brave chiller practically crying out to be discovered."
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
Satan's Little Helper (2004)n/a
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3/4
 
" With a storytelling sensibility more common in foreign films than mainstream ones, Passengers is a compact, thought-provoking tale that challenges the viewer while shedding light on one's own life, and how he or she has chosen to lead it."
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
Passengers (2008)17%
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3.5/4
 
" For an 11-year-old boy (in 1993) already in love with horror movies, Halloween and Thora Birch, Hocus Pocus was my dream movie sprung to life."
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
Hocus Pocus (1993)30%
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3.5/4
 
" Orchestrates a thick pall of apprehension and good-time suspense."
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
The Fog (1980)69%
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3.5/4
 
" As ruthless and nerve-jangling as any motion picture from this year or last."
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
Trigger Man (2007)89%
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2/4
 
" Actually a fairly serviceable slasher flick up until a head-scratching last fifteen minutes that introduces and then fails to explain a series of plainly stupid plot twists."
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)15%
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2/4
 
" Lacks the clarity and identity of the earlier 1974 and 1986 installments."
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 (1989)20%
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3.5/4
 
" A ripe and wicked horror-comedy, as black as pitch and every bit as violent as naysayers mistakenly accused the first film of being."
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)45%
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4/4
 
" A cutthroat, unendingly bleak masterpiece of horror cinema."
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)90%
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2.5/4
 
" Surprises, dismays and unsettles--pretty good for a movie that went straight to video."
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
Grandmother's House (1988)n/a
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3/4
 
" Blends unthinkably nasty horror elements with perverse comedy, intimate drama, and outrageously on-target satire without missing a beat."
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
Mother's Day (1980)43%
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3/4
 
" Xtro may be morbid, unsettling, and even upsetting--it pushes upon boundaries and then crosses them--but it's a bonafide original in the genre."
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
XTRO (1983)20%
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1.5/4
 
" Jigsaw was put out of his misery two movies ago. Lionsgate might want to consider doing this misbegotten series the same favor."
Posted Oct 24, 2008
 
Saw V (2008)12%
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1.5/4
 
" May be mediocre for its first 100 minutes, but it falls completely apart in a climax that is overwrought, silly, and damagingly misdirected."
Posted Oct 23, 2008
 
Pride and Glory (2008)34%
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4/4
 
" The picture, just about as surreal as David Lynch on his quirkiest day, is at once staggering, baffling, morose, frightening, hilarious, continuously inventive, and unspeakably touching."
Posted Oct 23, 2008
 
Synecdoche, New York (2008)64%
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3.5/4
 
" A gripping true story, stranger than fiction."
Posted Oct 23, 2008
 
Changeling (2008)56%
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1.5/4
 
" That the freaky angels all over the ads aren't even real is akin to if audiences had flocked to see Jurassic Park back in 1993 and discovered that the dinosaurs only appeared in a couple brief dream sequences."
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
Max Payne (2008)18%
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2/4
 
" If the historical backdrop which the film is set in is well-portrayed, it is the shaggy-dog plotting that is the problem."
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
The Secret Life of Bees (2008)58%
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3.5/4
 
" Eerily transcendent, Dressed to Kill is a layered machine of on-target character work and the sort of tension that only the best of the best filmmakers can ratchet."
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
Dressed to Kill (1980)84%
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3/4
 
" Raucous, thoughtful and romantic in nearly equal measure, Sex Drive is a teen comedy pulled off with unusual flair."
Posted Oct 16, 2008
 
Sex Drive (2008)40%
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2/4
 
" The good news is that W. isn't bad at all. In fact, it is a decidedly evenhanded depiction of the President. The problem, then, is that it is rushed, choppy and lacks an ending."
Posted Oct 16, 2008
 
W. (2008)58%
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2.5/4
 
" A needless sequel, but a pretty good one all the same."
Posted Oct 16, 2008
 
Pet Sematary II (1992)31%
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4/4
 
" Haunting, sorrowful and reverberatingly eerie. Above all, Pet Sematary is a remarkably mature and thought-provoking look at the mysterious nature of death and the complexity of the grieving process."
Posted Oct 16, 2008
 
Pet Sematary (1989)50%
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3.5/4
 
" Wrenching and uncompromising, but not without an all-important glimmer of hope. Hathaway's performance is one that Oscar voters would be remiss to overlook."
Posted Oct 15, 2008
 
Rachel Getting Married (2008)87%
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2/4
 
" Cute but inconsequential, pleasant to a degree but so willowy that it hardly seems to exist at all."
Posted Oct 15, 2008
 
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)94%
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3/4
 
" The weakest entry in the trilogy, but it's still smarter than the majority of horror films that get released each year."
Posted Oct 15, 2008
 
Scream 2 (1997)80%
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3.5/4
 
" A pointedly knowledgeable, frequently funny satire on slasher conventions and a terrifically scary, joyously suspenseful horror picture."
Posted Oct 15, 2008
 
Scream (1996)84%
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3/4
 
" One of the more memorable teen-oriented horror movies of the last few years. As much a comment on the objectification of women as it is a grimy, violent, enthralling slasher pic."
Posted Oct 15, 2008
 
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2008)55%

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