Michael Phillips

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Chicago Tribune
For 2,578 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1 point higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Michael Phillips' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 The Third Man
Lowest review score: 0 Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,779 out of 2578
  2. Mixed: 510 out of 2578
  3. Negative: 289 out of 2578
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Michael Phillips
    Roll Red Roll
    Schwartzman’s film is a strong, cogent examination of outrage, coolly and carefully documented, one text, tweet and reckoning at a time.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Michael Phillips
    Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Bi, not yet 30, has made a movie that feels like a visual sigh and, yes, a dream. It’s a reminder of just how expansive the cinema’s boundaries remain.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Phillips
    The Hustle
    Well, it’s a dud. Nothing quite clicks.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Michael Phillips
    Tolkien
    Too often Tolkien lumbers up to its big moments, such as the preposterous climax involving the title character scrambling around the western front, calling out his schoolmate’s name. Fact or fiction isn’t the issue. Either way it plays like hokum.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Michael Phillips
    Hail Satan?
    The musical score, and some of director Lane’s editing strategies, have a way of playing into the more comic aspects. Yet it’s not a mean-spirited affair. In fact, it’s a sly primer in homegrown grassroots activism.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Michael Phillips
    Avengers: Endgame
    It’s the time travel conceit that keeps “Endgame” hopping, and the trial-and-error sequences recall some of the best parts of the first “Iron Man” 11 years back.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Michael Phillips
    Penguins
    In the spirit of previous Disneynature film voiceover artists John C. Reilly and Tina Fey, Helms contributes a winning inner-monologue voice for Steve, while also delivering the alternately threatening and comforting narration.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Michael Phillips
    Diane
    It’s harder than it should be to describe Kent Jones’ Diane in a way that makes it sound distinctive or special, which it is.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Michael Phillips
    The Best of Enemies
    It’s a surprise and a small wonder, then, when The Best of Enemies starts getting good and pretty much stays that way to the end. This may be an apples/oranges comparison, but: For a true-ish story of racial animus, bone-deep prejudice and the American South in the civil rights era, it’s a better, more nuanced and more interesting feel-good movie than a certain, recent, less interesting Best Picture Academy Award winner we could mention.
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