For 197 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 65% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 12.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Phil Hall's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 54
Highest review score: 100 Drift
Lowest review score: 0 The Groomsmen
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 59 out of 197
  2. Negative: 54 out of 197
197 movie reviews
    • 60 Metascore
    • 90 Phil Hall
    Spins in its own orbit and dares the audience to come into its weirdly one-of-a-kind environment. This is a delightful work of humor which is worthy of Spielberg-level praise.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 10 Phil Hall
    This one deserves to go back in the refrigerator – preferably to the very back of the refrigerator!
    • 59 Metascore
    • 100 Phil Hall
    One of the year's best films. An extraordinary work of intellectual maturity and emotional depth.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Phil Hall
    Sadly, Naqoyqatsi quickly degenerates into a monotonous skein of banal images which strangely reinforces the message that we're living in a damn dull society.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Phil Hall
    Wooden, one-dimensional epic.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Phil Hall
    There is some very un-Mormon gender bending going on here.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 20 Phil Hall
    Tiresome, trite and choked with every lousy Dixie-fried stereotype imaginable.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Phil Hall
    Obviously, this is one subject which may not seem to require the attention of documentary filmmakers.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Phil Hall
    Thoroughly obnoxious and relentlessly unfunny comedy.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Phil Hall
    Being released at the same time that Bowie's latest album "Heathen" is being unveiled. Bowie fans who need a reason to celebrate the trajectory of the artist's career can make use of this cinematic Alpha and CD Omega.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Phil Hall
    Small, amateurish Israeli feature.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Phil Hall
    A noisy, chaotic affair.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 0 Phil Hall
    After sitting through this movie, you will want to throw something more pungent than rice at The Groomsmen.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 100 Phil Hall
    Cimino fashioned a deep, multi-textured screenplay rich with fully dimensional characters. His ensemble cast brought the story to vivid life. Kristofferson gave a career peak performance here as a man who seems perpetually out of his element.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 100 Phil Hall
    One of the most effective, intelligent, mature and romantic love stories to come across the screen recently is, of all things, a documentary.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Phil Hall
    While imperfect, it does provide an intriguing glimpse into a subculture, which many people will be surprised to learn, still exists.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Phil Hall
    A delightfully silly romp which reinvents the legendary Italian lover's adventures into the realm of broad farce.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Phil Hall
    Easily the most surprising comedy of his career. The surprise: it's not funny.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Phil Hall
    By the time the film is over it is not so much a "who-done-it?" but a "why-did-we-sit-through-this?"
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Phil Hall
    It is an entertaining bit of fluff, with a few engaging performances and enough visual panache to keep audiences diverted and amused.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Phil Hall
    A mediocre film that presents the troubled poet Sylvia Plath as a jealous, possessive and irritating woman. It is hard to recall another biopic which is so unflattering to its subject.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Phil Hall
    If there is one film which makes the most out of life, this is it.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Phil Hall
    Jaglom has the good sense to cast the legendary Lee Grant in an extraordinary role.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Phil Hall
    Beautifully produced but emotionally vacant drama.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Phil Hall
    A beautifully crafted documentary.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Phil Hall
    It is a shame the film doesn't cast a wider net into deeper political waters – the outrage is barely scratched in this production.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 10 Phil Hall
    At 100 minutes in running time, Dallas 362 can be called "The Amateur Hour-and-40-Minutes."
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Phil Hall
    While I admire Bishop Jakes and I frequently watch his sermons on TV, I have to question his tactic of charging people admission to generate hosannas on his behalf.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 100 Phil Hall
    It is a horrifying and devastating spectacle of life gone dreadfully out of control, yet it is also riveting and hypnotic in such a dramatic sensation that you are left breathless by the sequence of events which will haunt and torture for as long as your memory remains intact.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 20 Phil Hall
    To its credit, the film's costume design is stunning. But unless you have a kimono fetish, there's no reason to pay a good dollar (or a yen, for that matter) on this junk.

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