ROTTEN TOMATOES: Michael Phillips

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	My Kid Could Paint That
3.5/4	In the Valley of Elah
3/4	Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief)
2.5/4	Resurrecting the Champ
3/5	Step Up 2 the Streets
2/4	The Nanny Diaries
1.5/4	Self-Medicated
1/4	The Brothers Solomon

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	The Flight of the Red Balloon
4/4	Snow Angels
4/4	Still Life
4/4	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4/4	The 400 Blows
4/4	City Lights
4/4	There Will Be Blood
4/4	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4/4	Margot at the Wedding
4/4	My Kid Could Paint That
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Bratz: The Movie
0/4	Hostel: Part II
1/4	88 Minutes
1/4	The Heartbreak Kid
1/4	Good Luck Chuck
1/4	Shoot 'Em Up
1/4	The Brothers Solomon
1/4	Gray Matters
1/4	TMNT
1/4	Wild Hogs
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

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3.5/4	"Spanning a year beginning in the summer of 1984, The Witnesses offers the considerable satisfaction of a beautifully acted ensemble piece built on the foundation of a serious subject%u2014the dawn of the AIDS crisis%u2014handled just so." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 15, 2008	Witnesses (2003)	90%
2/4	"I realize the first film (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) made almost $745 million worldwide. Well, some things make tremendous profits simply by showing up and getting the trains to run on time." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 15, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	69%
3/4	"Like everything Mamet touches, whether predominantly comic or dramatic, this stern cautionary tale concerns whom we can trust (ourselves, if we live by a few simple, honorable rules of conduct) and whom we cannot (others, especially if they're in the film" -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 8, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	71%
1.5/4	"So many things, small and large, erode any sense of fun here. The movie looks like crud -- like it, too, stayed up and drank all night." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 8, 2008	What Happens in Vegas (2008)	29%
3/4	"At its best, it's buoyant pop entertainment focused on three things: speed, racing and retina-splitting oceans of digitally captured color." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 8, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	34%
2.5/4	"A misjudged degree of cinematic dazzle obscures the outrages at the core of Standard Operating Procedure, director Errol Morris' first documentary since The Fog of War, and the first Iraq documentary to focus on the infamous Abu Ghraib photo" -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 1, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
1.5/4	"Certain formula-driven romantic comedies reach a point where the audience realizes it won't be much fun watching the main character get his way. Nor will it be much fun watching him get his comeuppance. This is not where you want your audience." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 1, 2008	Made of Honor (2008)	12%
3.5/4	"Mainly it has Robert Downey Jr. The newly insurable actor, who has had his run-ins with various chemicals in the past, plays this louche playboy with a knowing glint in his eye."" -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 30, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
2/4	"Every moment of this project feels beat-driven, focus-grouped and designed to package Fey as a viable movie star with great pins (as one character takes pains to note) to go with the breasts (ditto). This isn't writing, it's advertising." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 24, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	60%
1.5/4	"Moving slowly these days, Burt Reynolds does less than no acting in this role, and he's still the best thing in Deal." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deal (2008)	0%
2/4	"As thriller storytelling, however, Deception cannot get enough of the obvious. Each major story revelation is so flagrantly telegraphed, when the revelations arrive they're more like fax confirmation sheets of what already came through." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deception (2008)	12%
3/4	"By the end of this modest, strange venture, Leto made me believe it was worth being forced to hang out on the sidewalk with this man, if only to get a creeping sense of what that might've been like." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 24, 2008	Chapter 27 (2008)	21%
3.5/4	"It is a fine and plaintive experience, more modern-day folklore than ethnographic study, and a wonderfully assured piece of cinema." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 24, 2008	Tuya's Marriage (2008)	82%
2/4	"You find yourself smiling at some of the bits, wincing through many, many others, and ultimately wondering if the pacing would've improved had either H or K developed a terrible cocaine habit." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 24, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	56%
2/4	"Only in flashes does Wong Kar-Wai let you forget about the relentless, meticulous beauty long enough to lose yourself inside it." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 18, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	49%
3.5/4	"Richard Jenkins and "The Visitor" make lovely music together. It's a case of a veteran character actor slipping on a leading role like the most comfortable pair of pants in the world." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 18, 2008	The Visitor (2008)	92%
4/4	"Plenty of well-meaning filmmakers advertise emotion without contextualizing it. Hou's latest film feels to me like a masterpiece responding intuitively to a masterpiece." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 18, 2008	The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)	80%
1/4	"The preposterous "88 Minutes" is a serial killer movie starring Al Pacino's festival of hair." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 18, 2008	88 Minutes (2008)	6%
3.5/4	"Jason Segel has what Nicolas Cage and Gene Wilder and a precious handful of other witty actors have: The ability to make egregious humiliation and painful neediness a source of limitless mirth." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 18, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	84%
3/4	"*The thing about a certain grade of contemporary French comedy, of which Priceless* is a fine example, is the quality of the playing style. Nobody forces the situations, even the broadest ones.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Apr 10, 2008	Priceless (2008)	85%
3/4	"The performances and Marcos Siega's direction put a pleasing sheen on the material." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 10, 2008	Chaos Theory (2008)	30%
2/4	"*In Ellroy's original scenario Street Kings* was a period piece, set in the 1990s just after the Rodney King riots. I wonder if it would've made more sense that way.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Apr 10, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	33%
2/4	"*While Smart People,* wouldn't necessarily have taken off with a different leading actor, Quaid's self-conscious characterization calls attention to the artificiality of the story's construction.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Apr 10, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%
2/4	"*Tragically, Leatherheads* is just OK, though the film may well find an audience among those eager for a little diversion, what with the nostalgia factor and the George Clooney factor.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Apr 6, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
3.5/4	"Shine a Light is akin to paying for a very good seat at a Stones concert, and while some of us couldn't do that for real, even if we saved up, Scorsese's fond film...is a stroll down memory lane, conducted by four men who know the way, and know how" -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 3, 2008	Shine a Light (2008)	86%
2/4	"While you may stick with the film -- it's a slick time-waster -- you never believe it." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 28, 2008	21 (2008)	31%
1.5/4	"I don't doubt [Stephen Chow's] talent. With this one, though, I doubt his story sense and his borderline-insane mixture of tones." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 27, 2008	CJ7 (2008)	45%
2.5/4	"*For all its stodginess, however, Flawless* is a reasonably good time, for one reason. The reason's name is Maurice Micklewhite, better known as Michael Caine.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Mar 27, 2008	Flawless (2007)	62%
2/4	"The project represents an uncertain Britification of a script by Chicago native Michael Ian Black, and the result finds itself stranded somewhere out in the Atlantic, mid-crossing." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 27, 2008	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	48%
3.5/4	"It's a sharp mixture of neorealist grit and lyricism, and while other writer-directors would treat the sibling relationship at the film's center very differently--more melodramatically, for starters--Bahrani lets us into two improvised lives naturally." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 20, 2008	Chop Shop (2003)	n/a
3.5/4	"This 1970-set tale of a 12-year-old shaped by three driving forces--his country's brutal dictatorship, his left-wing parents' disappearance and a nation's obsession with the World Cup--pulls you into a well-observed world and its characters." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 20, 2008	The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2008)	84%
4/4	"With the sublimely moving Snow Angels, writer-director David Gordon Green has made the best film about parents, children and relational perils since Little Children." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 20, 2008	Snow Angels (2008)	68%
2.5/4	"What does it say about a film when you believe only parts of the journey, yet are moved by the arrival?" -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 20, 2008	Under the Same Moon (2008)	74%
2/4	"Drillbit Taylor makes last summer's very funny Superbad look even better in retrospect." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 20, 2008	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
1.5/4	"Charlize Theron only gets better as an actress, and she certainly wouldn't sign on to a low-budget indie such as Sleepwalking without believing in the material. The material, alas, does Theron no favors." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 14, 2008	Sleepwalking (2008)	16%
3.5/4	"Van Sant has made his best film in many years. I didn't realize it until a second viewing. These things sometimes happen, especially if the first encounter was in the middle of a film festival." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 14, 2008	Paranoid Park (2008)	76%
2/4	"*Both versions of Funny Games* force the audience to eat it, really eat it, and while they're eating it, to think about the mechanics and the narrative tropes of a typical revenge drama.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Mar 14, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	49%
2/4	"*It's a little Karate Kid,* a smidge of Fight Club...a lot of The O.C. (evil boy Gigandet played an evil boy on that series), and presto: probable hit.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Mar 14, 2008	Never Back Down (2008)	25%
2.5/4	"Your enjoyment of this G-rated enterprise will have everything to do with how much you're willing to overlook: how much story padding, how many references to Henry Kissinger or Apocalypse Now or MySpace. Does Seuss need any of this?" -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 14, 2008	Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	78%
3/4	"Director Barry Poltermann's sweet little evocation of a show business career captures Reilly at 'the twilight of an extraordinary life,' in Reilly's words." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 6, 2008	Life of Reilly (2007)	100%
1.5/4	"*Not since Bob Crane put his dubious smirk to work in Disney's Superdad* a generation ago has this particular set-up seemed quite so hoary.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Mar 6, 2008	College Road Trip (2008)	14%
3/4	"Any heist film containing the line 'I will not be lectured by the porn king of Soho!' is on the right track." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 6, 2008	The Bank Job (2008)	77%
3/4	"*By the end of Miss Pettigrew,* an artificial construct full of familiar comic archetypes has relaxed into a charming Cinderella story.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Mar 6, 2008	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)	76%
3/4	"Sometimes you have a hankering for a slab of 10,000-year-old cheese. Here it is, on a cracker." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 6, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
3.5/4	"*It is a mark of the filmmaking and storytelling intelligence of The Counterfeiters* that Ruzowitzky neither pours on the melodrama nor plays coy with the reality of things.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Feb 28, 2008	The Counterfeiters (2008)	94%
3/4	"The new picture, directed by Paulo Morelli, does not try to compete with the dizzying visual gyrations and propulsive, nearly maniacal energy of the previous one, which was directed by Fernando Meirelles." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 28, 2008	City of Men (2008)	77%
2.5/4	"Compared to Juno MacGuff, Penelope Wilhern is practically mute, but they're half-sisters under the skin." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 28, 2008	Penelope (2008)	53%
1.5/4	"Like so much in this life, Will Ferrell's comedies tread the razor-thin line separating smart/stupid from stupid/stupid." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 28, 2008	Semi-Pro (2008)	21%
4/4	"Still Life is the first great film of the year. It's beautiful but so much more--full of subtle feeling, framed by a monstrous, eroding landscape." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 21, 2008	Still Life (2008)	93%
2.5/4	"Be Kind Rewind may exist in a hazy, dreamy time warp, but its artistic impulses are strictly YouTube." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 21, 2008	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	65%

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