Phil Hall
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34% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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65% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 12.1 points lower than other critics.
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Phil Hall's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 54 | |
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| Highest review score: | Drift | |
| Lowest review score: | The Groomsmen | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 59 out of 197
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Mixed: 84 out of 197
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Negative: 54 out of 197
197
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- Phil Hall
Chicago is a failure, but that should not come as a surprise. Bob Fosse, who directed and choreographed the original 1975 Broadway production, was long baffled in making a film of the show and eventually gave up trying.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
If Dogville has a reason for importance, it is the astonishing all-star ensemble who try very hard to put life into their cardboard characters and make this silly film work.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
Reconfigured into a very different one-woman movie by Gibson and director Jeremy Kagan. Unfortunately, the transformation was not successful.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
The Quiet is best for cheap laughs by jaded moviegoers with absolutely nothing better to do with their time.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
The primary problem with “Rabbit Test” was that it was based on a hoary one-joke concept – in this case, a man becomes pregnant. But Rivers had no clue how to take the concept and expand it into a flowing, coherent comedy script.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
Easily the most surprising comedy of his career. The surprise: it's not funny.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
More of a hangnail sketch -- no one can come away from this offering with a clue on what makes Wall Street click.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
The one lesson learned from watching this film is that Canadians can make movies just as badly as anyone else.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
An Italian-British-French-Spanish-Romanian co-production. A better argument against multinational cooperation cannot be imagined.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
Writer/director Gary Burns offers a suffocating experience which is too boring to be accepted as a satire, too lame to be accepted as a farce, and too infantile to be accepted as a drama.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
Perhaps it is a shame that no one thought of digitally restoring and theatrically releasing the sex videos that Crane made with the many women he pleasured...that would have been far more entertaining than anything found in Auto Focus.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
Emily Blunt’s Victoria and Rupert Friend’s Albert come across like museum mannequins – utterly devoid of any genuine passion.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
The new bad movie from Clint Eastwood which takes Dennis Lehane's best-selling thriller and turns it into an inert mess that clocks in at 137 minutes but feels like 137 hours.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
While it would be foolish to expect a completely faithful Shakespeare adaptation from Godard, there is no pleasure in being fooled into thinking that this vague, obscure, annoying, cacophonous wreck of a film is anything but a joke being played by a self-indulgent filmmaker.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
Typical of too many films produced in Israel: plodding, verbose, badly-made and completely monotonous.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
A thoroughly awful Korean production which vainly attempts to recast the slam-bang conventions of American action-adventure flicks into the sticky world of contemporary Korean politics.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
Clooney has littered his film with such a high quantity of mistakes that it is hard to know where exactly to begin finding fault.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
Fans of prison flicks would do better to catch the HBO series "Oz" or the five millionth rebroadcast of "The Shawshank Redemption."- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
Tiresome, trite and choked with every lousy Dixie-fried stereotype imaginable.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
Little more than a travelogue designed to show off the grandeur of the Hermitage, with the silly actors in fancy costumes getting in the way of the paintings and sculptures on display.- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
Bubble is among his (Soderbergh) worst films. What in the world was he thinking with this?- Film Threat
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- Phil Hall
It seems as if every possible cliche and story twist from any seafaring picture of the past 80 years made its way into this flick.- Film Threat
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- 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.- Film Threat
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