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PHIL VILLARREAL
PUBLICATION(S)
Arizona Daily Star

BIOGRAPHY
Arizona Daily Star film critic Phil Villarreal's His 2008 novel, "Stormin' Mormon" is now for sale. He blogs at philmguy.com and becauseitoldyouso.com and is a 2000 graduate of the University of Arizona.
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STATS
Total Reviews: 1470
Total QuickRatings: 94

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Phoenix Film Critics Society

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• Location: Tucson


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Rebel Without a Cause
3.5/4 Hairspray
3/4 Days of Glory
2.5/4 Nancy Drew
2/4 A Mighty Heart
1.5/4 What Would Jesus Buy?
1/4 Evan Almighty
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
4/4 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4/4 There Will Be Blood
4/4 Juno
4/4 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
4/4 The Dead Girl
4/4 No Country for Old Men
4/4 American Gangster
4/4 The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
4/4 Michael Clayton
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/4 88 Minutes
1/4 Fool's Gold
1/4 P.S. I Love You
1/4 August Rush
1/4 Milarepa
1/4 The Game Plan
1/4 Evan Almighty
1/4 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
1/4 Thr3e
1/4 Eragon
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

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1.5/4
 
"Girls rock, flat documentaries do not."
Posted May 16, 2008
 
Girls Rock! (2008)73%
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3/4
 
"Riedel's film is a breakthrough achievement and a hopeful sign of more to come."
Posted May 16, 2008
 
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summers (2008)82%
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3/4
 
"They're necessary, eat-your-shredded-wheat watching for any movie lover, and are worlds better than all those middling Harry Potter films."
Posted May 16, 2008
 
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)70%
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3/4
 
"Finding a way to compartmentalize your bitterness while keeping your heart open to enlightening relationships is a more difficult task than facing Ivan Drago. In Russia. On Christmas Day. For no money."
Posted May 15, 2008
 
Then She Found Me (2008)54%
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3/4
 
"The sequel proves you can still have fun with Harold and Kumar, but you can never go back to White Castle again."
Posted May 12, 2008
 
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)56%
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"The Wachowski brothers' message with Speed Racer is We give up."
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)35%
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3/4
 
"Reminds me of Mario Kart."
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)35%
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2.5/4
 
"A 34-year-old music-video director, Labaki shows promise with a smooth, artistic eye, although she succumbs to the Mel Gibson-like tendency to give herself the most closeups."
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Caramel (2008)91%
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1.5/4
 
"The cinematic equivalent of the Bush administration."
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Made of Honor (2008)12%
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3.5/4
 
"Easily the best superhero film since "Batman Begins," which for my money is the best in the genre."
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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"Pearls from Perelman"
Posted May 1, 2008
 
The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)22%
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2/4
 
"And then, THUD. Like an Acme anvil, the ending smashes everything to smithereens and you're left as discouraged as Wile E. Coyote."
Posted May 1, 2008
 
The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)22%
 N/A  
"Makes you believe Robert Downey Jr. has other superpowers than the ability to resurrect his career every time he gets strung out and imprisoned."
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
 N/A  
"Abdominal contractions, uncontrollable screaming and a loss of bladder control are signs you're either going into labor or watching Baby Mama."
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)61%
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3/4
 
"Fey and Poehler prove to be a movie force to be reckoned with, reminiscent of David Spade and Chris Farley in "Tommy Boy.""
Posted Apr 23, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)61%
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1/4
 
"If one is the loneliest number, two is company, three is a crowd and four is an orgy, then eighty-eight must be the universal symbol for unwatchability."
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)6%
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2.5/4
 
"The problem is there's nothing for the audience to latch onto and laugh at."
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)84%
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"More lewd than shrewd."
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)84%
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3/4
 
"That there's nothing definitive to wrap your arms around is frustrating. And intriguing."
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Paranoid Park (2008)76%
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"It's possible to be so smart that you're actually a blithering idiot."
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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"Poirier is smart, lucky"
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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3/4
 
"Poirier's dialogue, filled with uncomfortable pauses and characters talking themselves in and out of philosophical quandaries, is the best part of the film."
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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3/4
 
"There seems to be far more shrouded in darkness than Gibney's flashlight reveals."
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)100%
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2/4
 
"There are so many scenes of him running, it's surprising Pegg didn't just take off and never come back to the set after he saw how things were going."
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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3/4
 
"You'll have fun at 21 but will walk out of the theater a little bit lighter in the pocket, wondering where the time went."
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
21 (2008)31%
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3/4
 
"Star Jess Weixler, exerting the command and persona of a young Meryl Streep, grants enough earnest innocence that instead of fearing Dawn, you fear for her."
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Teeth (2008)79%
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3.5/4
 
"If the war effort is bent on alienating the core of troop morale while frightening potential recruits from joining up, mission accomplished."
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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3/4
 
"More than once, the narrative may push you to tears, but the emotion Carlitos draws most effectively is not pity but awe. We should all be such great Americans."
Posted Mar 24, 2008
 
Under the Same Moon (2008)74%
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3/4
 
"The minimalist realism is a drawback as well as an asset."
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)96%
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2.5/4
 
"Seriously, when it comes to filling your soundtrack with whiny, alt-rock ballads, you should highly consider backing down."
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
Never Back Down (2008)25%
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3/4
 
"The overarching lesson for kids is to trust those who claim to hear voices, as well as compulsively worry that any time they bust out a dust cloth, they may be destroying thousands of civilizations. Huh."
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)78%
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2.5/4
 
"I can't figure out exactly when the film 10,000 B.C. is set, but it's definitely ancient times. Like before they had cars, guns or tabloid blogs. And definitely before they had cohesive plots or dialogue that made sense."
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
10,000 B.C. (2008)9%
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2/4
 
"The closest it comes to being interesting is when air raid sirens blare, bringing all the nonsense to a halt for a too-brief respite. But there are only so many air raids to go around."
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)76%
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3/4
 
"While Kolirin clearly loves his characters, you can sense a general tone of condescension in the way they think and interact."
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
The Band's Visit (2007)98%
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3.5/4
 
"Brazil's Boyz n the Hood."
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
City of Men (2008)77%
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3/4
 
"Wagner has turned the page on a promising career, and it will be exciting to see what the next chapter brings."
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)86%
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3.5/4
 
"Shares a trait with Henry: It's relentlessly powerful and makes up for its lack of well thought-out plotting with deftly effective execution."
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)41%
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2.5/4
 
"You know when a basketball team that's trailing at the end of the game obnoxiously extends the pain by calling a billion timeouts? That's exactly how Semi-Pro goes out."
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Semi-Pro (2008)21%
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3/4
 
"It would be easier to sit back and rest on his legend rather than press on as an average filmmaker, which is what Coppola has become."
Posted Feb 21, 2008
 
Youth Without Youth (2007)29%
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3/4
 
"A tight, solid mystery/thriller that keeps you guessing until the end."
Posted Feb 21, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)37%
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3/4
 
" Reynolds has consistently ranked among the top unsung comedic actors of his era."
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
Definitely, Maybe (2008)72%
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2.5/4
 
"Any movie that requires a video game to fill gaps in the story raises a red flag."
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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1/4
 
"There's more continuity in an episode of Teletubbies."
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)10%
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2/4
 
"This movie is dripping a lot of things, none of them honey."
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
Honeydripper (2007)67%
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4/4
 
"Unlike Eddie Murphy and Jim Carrey, who make being funny look like a dreary chore, Vince Vaughn seems like a dude who actually enjoys his job."
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008)56%
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"Sandel has people"
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008)56%
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2/4
 
"like going to the zoo and catching the tiger during his nap instead of feeding time."
Posted Jan 31, 2008
 
Lynch (2007)53%
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3.5/4
 
" It's a cultural Rosetta Stone, bridging disparate cultures with a universal language %u2014 the pain of growing up."
Posted Jan 31, 2008
 
Persepolis (2007)95%
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3/4
 
"It's one of those movies you want to dismiss but can't bring yourself to turn away from."
Posted Jan 30, 2008
 
Over Her Dead Body (2008)13%
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3.5/4
 
"If I had a penny for every screaming explosion in Rambo, I'd be dead."
Posted Jan 25, 2008
 
Rambo (2008)33%

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