For 185 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 65% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Phil Hall's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 53
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 55 out of 185
  2. Negative: 51 out of 185
185 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 39
    • Phil Hall 60
    A small, no-budget, seemingly unsophisticated film that creates a minor energy miracle by fueling its running time on pure raffish charm.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Phil Hall 60
    This is clearly not a pleasant film to watch on many levels.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Phil Hall 60
    A meandering and disappointing documentary about one of Africa's most beloved yet elusive musical giants.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Phil Hall 60
    The film is a visceral overload of wordplay ranging from the spontaneous neighborhood park jams to the overflowing concert venues.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Phil Hall 60
    A beautifully crafted documentary.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Phil Hall 60
    If Stalin's Wife doesn't provide solid answers, it nonetheless offers a fascinating tapestry of love, madness, politics, suspicions and jealousies.
    • Metascore: 24
    • Phil Hall 60
    A guilty pleasure diversion. Yeah, it is dumber than a bag of hair. But it is also fast, occasionally funny and genuinely entertaining in an old-fashion no-brainer manner.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Phil Hall 60
    Jaglom has the good sense to cast the legendary Lee Grant in an extraordinary role.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Phil Hall 60
    A good film, but it should’ve been a great one.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Phil Hall 60
    A treasure in celebrating remarkable women with a unparalleled zest for life.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Phil Hall 60
    It is an entertaining bit of fluff, with a few engaging performances and enough visual panache to keep audiences diverted and amused.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Phil Hall 60
    Bruno Dumont’s Flanders is something you don't see everyday: a decidedly non-sentimental love story.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Phil Hall 60
    A stirring and touching production, and it is difficult not to be moved by the women’s medical progress. However, it suffers from a somewhat leisurely pacing.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Phil Hall 60
    Yiddish Theater: A Love Story is a slight but moving documentary focusing on the final performances given by Zypora Spaisman, the Polish-born star of New York’s Yiddish theater.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Phil Hall 60
    Rich with compelling, often heartbreaking stories.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Phil Hall 60
    For those who never heard of "The Goldbergs" and its amazing star, Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg will provide a special introduction to a special person.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Phil Hall 60
    To its favor, the film is blessed with strong peformances by Ozgu Namal as Meryem and Murat Han as Cemal.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Phil Hall 50
    While the screen didn't really need another Carmen, it certainly needs a knockout femme fatale like Diop Gai. Hopefully, Carmen can get a much-needed rest and audiences can get much more of this stunning African icon-in-waiting.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Phil Hall 50
    This is a curious example of taking a hair-raising story and draining the drama from every corner, leaving it a bit flat and ultimately forgettable.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Phil Hall 50
    At the risk of being called an anti-Semite, I would like to propose a moratorium on Holocaust movies -- While it would be crass to discount the importance of the subject, at the same time one has to admit there is some degree of excess going on here.
    • Metascore: 31
    • Phil Hall 50
    A potentially great film stuck inside a not-so-great film. Watching Dog Run is fairly painful since flashes of brilliance peek out and shine at unexpected moments.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Phil Hall 50
    A mild but diverting farce about misperceptions involving gays and goombas.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Phil Hall 50
    A style-rich, substance-weak B-level gangster movie which is noteworthy for two unusual reasons: it is one of the very few films from Thailand to gain international release and it is the perhaps the only film of its genre to feature a love story between a hit man and a pharmacist.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Phil Hall 50
    Achieves the impossible by taking one of the most compelling and harrowing stories imaginable and channeling it into one of the most ordinary movies of the year.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Phil Hall 50
    While the Raymond Burr sequences and the subsequent clumsy English dubbing of the remaining Japanese footage made the U.S. version an unintentionally funny movie, the complete Japanese version is an unfunny bore.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Phil Hall 50
    A well-intended but hopelessly ill-focused documentary which wants to be the "That's Entertainment!" for the New York theater but seems like a hodgepodge of anecdotes, factoids and moldy memories.
    • Metascore: 34
    • Phil Hall 50
    Never quite clicks, primarily because the central male characters are badly miscast.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Phil Hall 50
    The film's leisurely pacing is often too slow for its own good, and many scenes meander endlessly with no true payoff.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Phil Hall 50
    A documentary which wobbles and weaves as much as often as it soars.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Phil Hall 50
    A lopsided effort which is part-thriller, part-social commentary, and totally forgettable.