Phil Spector
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 24, 2013
User Score
5.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 16
  3. Negative: 5 out of 16

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  1. beingryanjude
    Sep 1, 2014
    6
    Regardless of whether it is true or not--it's held together by two strong performances and wonderful writing. Phil Spector is a bold view of a nationally recognized court case--by the end, you'll have plenty of opinions.

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Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 30 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 30
  3. Negative: 3 out of 30
  1. Sioux City Journal
    Reviewed by: Bruce Miller
    May 29, 2013
    40
    Both actors [Al Pacino and Helen Mirren] could thrive with this story (Pacino's a ringer for Spector) but Mamet speculates a bit too much. Had he eliminated the title character entirely, it might have been more intriguing.
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  2. Salon
    Reviewed by: Willa Paskin
    Mar 26, 2013
    40
    Phil Spector is missing dramatic tension. It’s staged as a movie but it’s constructed more like a play, with plenty of scenes of two people exchanging Mametian dialogue in claustrophobic spaces.
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  3. Zap2it (Inside the Box)
    Reviewed by: Geoff Berkshire
    Mar 26, 2013
    40
    While it's never as silly or artless as HBO's overpraised "Game Change," Spector is low-stakes, procedure-oriented and deliberately claustrophobic, lacking in the sort of sharply pointed dialogue one may expect from Mamet
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