ROTTEN TOMATOES: Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5	Cemetary Man
4.5/5	The Emigrants
4/5	The Smiling Lieutenant
3.5/5	Damage
3/5	Kansas City Confidential
2.5/5	Number 17
2/5	Coquette
1.5/5	Call It Murder
1/5	Idiocracy
0.5/5	Bloodrayne 2

BEST REVIEWED
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5/5	The Fall of the House of Usher
5/5	Once
5/5	War and Peace
5/5	Elevator to the Gallows
5/5	Cemetary Man
5/5	The New World
5/5	Richard Pryor - Live in Concert
5/5	The Big Lebowski
5/5	The Unknown
5/5	The Best of Youth
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/5	Vampires vs. Zombies
0/5	9 Songs
0/5	Paparazzi
0/5	Zombie Doom
0/5	Megaforce
0.5/5	Bloodrayne 2
0.5/5	Black Cat
0.5/5	Domino
0.5/5	The Ring Two
0.5/5	Bad Guy
	more...

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

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3/5	"A valuable, moving portrait of an immigrant community that tends to be ignored by mainstream films" -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jun 29, 2008	His People (1925)	n/a
2.5/5	"A feature-length elaboration on its own hilarious trailer." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jun 19, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
3/5	"*[About I Don't Want...]: How long would it be before a mainstream Hollywood movie showed the same worldliness about sex." -- Goatdog's Movies* Posted Jun 16, 2008	The Oyster Princess/I Don't Want to Be a Man (1919-1920)	n/a
3/5	"The most interesting thing about the film is the elaborate way it interacts with and stands outside the cinema." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jun 9, 2008	The Kiss of Mary Pickford (1927)	n/a
3.5/5	"Has so much momentum and inarguable internal logic that it drags you along, laughing helplessly." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jun 2, 2008	Hot Water (1924)	n/a
5/5	"The film denies us the safe distance between viewer and viewed, and it does this so effectively that its horrors are occurring all around us." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted May 25, 2008	The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)	100%
4.5/5	"Deceptively simple, heartfelt." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted May 23, 2008	Ballad of a Soldier (1959)	100%
4/5	"*[About After Death] Bauer's filmmaking skills exploded in the two years after his first feature." -- Goatdog's Movies* Posted May 19, 2008	Mad Love - The Films Of Evgeni Bauer (1921)	n/a
3/5	"The filmmakers [realize] that they're working within a genre with firmly established conventions are but able to carve out a little niche for themselves." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted May 19, 2008	The Devil's Daughter (1973)	n/a
3/5	"Overall, it's an enjoyable sequel, although not up to the admittedly high--heh--standards of the first installment." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted May 11, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	54%
2.5/5	"The film is barely competent, revealing its TV-movie roots in uncertain directorial guidance, technical flubs, [and] a patchwork script." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Apr 26, 2008	Testament (1983)	88%
2.5/5	"*From a technical standpoint, Smart People* is incredibly lacking*" -- Goatdog's Movies* Posted Apr 26, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%
4/5	"Its politics are abhorrent to me, but my god, it's such a slick, well-crafted thriller ... that I can't hate it" -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Apr 18, 2008	Cape Fear (1962)	95%
3/5	"A middle-of-the-pack entry in the series." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Apr 4, 2008	Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear (1945)	n/a
0.5/5	"This film's a minor cinematic crime entirely unworthy of my rhymes." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Apr 2, 2008	Bloodrayne 2 (2007)	n/a
3/5	"Its somewhat unlikely [Best Picture] nomination is neither an embarrassment to the Oscars ... nor a strong credit to the judgment of the Academy." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Mar 24, 2008	The White Parade (1934)	n/a
4/5	"The "scary little kid" subgenre has never been scarier or more nihilistic." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Mar 19, 2008	The Children (1980)	n/a
2.5/5	"A fair-to-middlin' example of that transitional hybrid, the part-talkie." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Mar 17, 2008	The Barker (1928)	n/a
4.5/5	"One of the most exciting and frightening sci-fi/horror films of the last decade." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Mar 13, 2008	Cloverfield (2008)	77%
3.5/5	"[Streisand gives] a natural, unforced performance, easily one of the three or four best Best Actresses in Oscar history." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jan 28, 2008	Funny Girl (1968)	97%
4.5/5	"A shockingly assured directorial vision." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jan 19, 2008	There Will Be Blood (2007)	92%
2/5	"Deus ex machina ... is the only driving force." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jan 14, 2008	The Golden Compass (2007)	41%
2/5	"Concept: excellent. Setup: intriguing. Execution: well... too many interesting ideas bungled." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jan 14, 2008	30 Days of Night (2007)	49%
3.5/5	"Much of the dialogue sparkles with wit and humanity." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jan 14, 2008	Juno (2007)	93%
2.5/5	"Defined by grand cinematic gestures that go nowhere." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jan 5, 2008	Atonement (2007)	83%
3/5	"Enchanting for most of its running time." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Dec 4, 2007	Enchanted (2007)	93%
3/5	"Aside from Cooper's performance, the best thing about the film is its grasp on what it was like to be a kid." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Nov 26, 2007	Skippy (1931)	n/a
4/5	"The film is remarkable for several reasons, foremost among them the awe-inspiring spectacle of greed in action that is the land rush." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Nov 25, 2007	Tumbleweeds (1925)	100%
2/5	"The film doesn't know or care who Anwar El-Ibrahimi is outside of how his plight affects the white folks connected with him." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Nov 21, 2007	Rendition (2007)	48%
3/5	"The dull, obvious ending doesn't quite erase the successes of the first half, but it's a close one." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Oct 13, 2007	Control (2007)	88%
4/5	"Literate and convincing." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Oct 7, 2007	Michael Clayton (2007)	91%
5/5	"An embodiment of what the digital revolution was supposed to provide but so often doesn't." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Oct 5, 2007	Once (2007)	97%
2.5/5	"A little like a study of the American Civil War that discusses the Confederacy without mentioning the Union." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Sep 25, 2007	Helvetica (2007)	88%
2.5/5	"Defined by radical and often unprompted changes in characters' behavior." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Sep 24, 2007	Tom Brown of Culver (1932)	n/a
3/5	"What started out as a very good film ends up fair-to-middling because the actors aren't up to delivering dialogue that in turn doesn't measure up." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Sep 24, 2007	The Love Trap (1929)	n/a
2/5	"An ugly, nasty, self-deluding piece of sadistic trash." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Sep 17, 2007	The Brave One (2007)	44%
5/5	"There's literally not another film in the world like it." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Sep 12, 2007	War and Peace (1968)	100%
1.5/5	"Even the funny bits are ruined by overemphasis." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Aug 18, 2007	Hot Rod (2007)	39%
2.5/5	"A historical relic flawed by miscasting but almost redeemed by an unjustly misunderstood ending." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Aug 6, 2007	The Doorway to Hell (1930)	n/a
4.5/5	"One of the best sci-fi/action films ever made." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jul 30, 2007	Predator (1987)	78%
2.5/5	"[Hayes] flogs her big moments until they're dead." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jul 18, 2007	The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)	n/a
3.5/5	"A grand, sprawling tale of the civilizing of the west." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jul 15, 2007	Red River (1948)	100%
3/5	"Despite its structural flaws, it often delivers the goods." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jul 11, 2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)	77%
4/5	"A timeless melodrama." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jul 6, 2007	Twilight of a Woman's Soul (1913)	n/a
4/5	"Literally has everything that makes [the pre-Code era] so magical." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jul 4, 2007	Employees' Entrance (1933)	n/a
2.5/5	"There's so much going on that it's easy to be distracted into feeling like you've seen something." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Jun 9, 2007	China Seas (1935)	n/a
3/5	"Of all the crackpot political films to come out of Hollywood ... this is surely the crackpottest, and must really be seen to be believed." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted May 17, 2007	Gabriel Over the White House (1933)	91%
3/5	"The best thing about the film is a sweet, slightly damaged performance by Drew Barrymore." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted May 6, 2007	Lucky You (2007)	28%
3/5	"A smart, efficient little thriller that wears its heredity proudly." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Apr 30, 2007	Disturbia (2007)	67%
4.5/5	"Attenborough's Pinky is ... one of the scariest noir villains of all time." -- Goatdog's Movies Posted Apr 23, 2007	Brighton Rock (1947)	n/a

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