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
2/2	Wanted
3.5/4	Dan in Real Life
3/4	Things We Lost in the Fire
2.5/4	Sleuth
3/5	Step Up 2 the Streets
2/4	Rendition
1.5/4	Lars And The Real Girl
1/4	88 Minutes

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
4/4	The Dark Knight
2/2	Wanted
4/4	WALL-E
4/4	Reprise
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
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Bratz: The Movie
0/4	Hostel: Part II
1/4	Space Chimps
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
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

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4/4	"This is a superb picture, sharp, open-minded, wised-up and cinematically accomplished. I wonder if any man could've handled the Polanski enigma with the same ironic intelligence [Marina] Zenovich has." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 24, 2008	Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)	88%
2.5/4	"Thompson, Goode and Atwell make for fine screen company, despite [Emma]Thompson's arguable miscasting." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 24, 2008	Brideshead Revisited (2008)	73%
2/4	"The story is both a muddle and a drag, having to do with stem cell research and regeneration and missing limbs and a fraught psychic, and that's enough detail for the purposes of this review." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 24, 2008	The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)	29%
2.5/4	"The trick to the Men II Boyz comic genre -- where grown men are simply older, pudgier versions of their teen selves, struggling to find their place in the world -- is to find the surprises and payoffs within the Peter Pan syndrome." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 24, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	58%
2/4	"*Everything's in twinkle overdrive. As with most stage-to-screen transfers, about a half-hour of material has been excised, and Mamma Mia!* never had that much story to begin with.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jul 18, 2008	Mamma Mia! (2008)	54%
1/4	"Space Chimps sucks a whole lot of talented people into a wormhole of lousy." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 17, 2008	Space Chimps (2008)	38%
4/4	"Nolan paints an inky portrait of a city falling apart, and in a movie rife with two-faced masquerading freaks, the Joker is merely the least conflicted of the bunch. Ledger's work is improbably droll, impossibly creepy, meticulously detailed." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 16, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
3/4	"Under the direction of Guillaume Canet, who adapted Harlan Coben's English-language best seller with Philippe Lefebvre, this is a splendid ensemble doing its level best to keep the audience guessing all the way through an increasingly knotty narrative." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 10, 2008	Tell No One (2008)	92%
3.5/4	"*Werner Herzog is a magnet for obsessives, and his lovely new film, Encounters at the End of the World,* takes you places an ordinary filmmaker might've gone to yet missed completely.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jul 10, 2008	Encounters at the End of the World (2008)	95%
2/4	"Better material and more adept direction might've made this a perfectly solid commercial enterprise." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 10, 2008	Meet Dave (2008)	21%
3/4	"I can't tell you how this film looks in 2-D, which is how the majority of the nation's customers will partake of it. I saw it in 3-D. I liked it. It's dopey, but I liked it." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 10, 2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)	60%
3/4	"*I can barely keep up with the mythology put forth by the Hellboy* series, but I enjoyed the first film, and I enjoyed the new one.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jul 10, 2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)	87%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 9, 2008	Chop Shop (2007)	95%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 9, 2008	Flawless (1999)	37%
2/4	"*Striving for low-key character comedy, Diminished Capacity* ends up diminishing its returns.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jul 3, 2008	Diminished Capacity (2008)	28%
3/4	"As driven by linguistics and euphemism as this film is, it's also a slippery and wonderfully acted drama%u2014Michael Clayton with a far more troubling moral landscape." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 3, 2008	Heartbeat Detector (2008)	76%
1.5/4	"*In this highly superheroic summer of Iron Man* and the forthcoming The Dark Knight, Hancock can offer only an A-list headliner in a D-list project.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jul 1, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
2/4	"Finding Amanda, the alternate title of which might well have been "I Oughta Be in Rehab," is an uneasy chronicle of addiction and denial wrapped in the rhythms of Neil Simon." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 26, 2008	Finding Amanda (2008)	38%
3.5/4	"Much of what Maddin asserts as truth is balderdash. He was not, for example, born in the locker room of the local hockey team's arena." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 26, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	96%
2/2	"*If you went for Sin City* or Shoot 'Em Up, you'll probably enjoy Wanted. I like my trash with a little less fetishism when it comes to instruments of slaughter.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
4/4	"It's remarkable to see any film, in any genre, blend honest sentiment with genuine wit and a visual landscape unlike any other." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
2.5/4	"A grandly kitschy rendering of Genghis Khan's early years, the ones revealing how a boy became a ruthless yet humane warrior, devoted family man and all-around good fellow, Mongol might as well be called Braveheart in a Yurt." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 19, 2008	Mongol (2008)	88%
3/4	"The director guides the viewer through a sly consideration of near-sociopathic not-quite-lovers, one of whom finds refuge in religion, the other in romantic obsession." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 19, 2008	The Duchess of Langeais (2008)	67%
2/4	"*Missed it by that much. Actually, the new version of Get Smart* misses by a fair-size margin. It's too bad. It's just trying to give us a good time at the retroplex.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jun 19, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
1.5/4	"We're talking 15 or 20 minutes of decent material. The movie runs a little longer than that." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 19, 2008	The Love Guru (2008)	15%
3/4	"The film has a bit of the overdetermined, cosmic-coincidence quality you find, for example, in a work like Babel. These are troubled people caught in the grip of fate, yet Akin, I think, has the skill and the insight to make do with a little less p" -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Edge of Heaven (2008)	90%
2.5/4	"War, Inc. has that provocateur's edge, and it's at least awake to the world around us." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 13, 2008	War, Inc. (2008)	31%
2.5/4	"War, Inc. has that provocateur's edge, and it's at least awake to the world around us." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 12, 2008	Great Sci-Fi Classics - Vol. 4 (1950-1978)	n/a
2/4	"Savage Grace is content to glide along, and while its key performances are intelligent, none of the writing activates these real-life characters fully." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 12, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	42%
1.5/4	"*After the insufferably dense mermaid mythology of Lady in the Water,* Shyamalan clearly wanted to keep things simple. He whizzed straight past simple to simplistic.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jun 12, 2008	The Happening (2008)	19%
3/4	"Incredible overstates it, but The Incredible Hulk finds a viable way to retell an old Jekyll and Hyde story, dating back to the early 1960s and a Cold War that inspired its share of unruly Marvel Comics misfits." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 12, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
	"*Everything about Kung Fu Panda* is a little better, a little sharper, a little funnier than the animated run of the mill. It's one of the few comedies of 2008 that knows what it's doing.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Jun 6, 2008	Kung Fu Panda (2008)	88%
2/4	"Some filmmakers can imagine everything and select nothing, and while it's clear as a bell Tarsem has more talent than almost any 10 directors put together, in The Fall he's basically showing off with every new wondrous image." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 29, 2008	The Fall (2008)	53%
4/4	"*A kinetic delight, Reprise* comes from director Joachim Trier, born in Denmark but raised in Oslo, Norway, and it's a highlight of the filmgoing year so far.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted May 22, 2008	Reprise (2008)	89%
2/4	"A lot of the picture veers uneasily between solemnity and slapstick and 47 different genres." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 18, 2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)	76%
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)	66%
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)	27%
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)	36%
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)	62%
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)	11%
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)	20%
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)	88%
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)	54%
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)	47%

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