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 6.4 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: 59
    • Phil Hall 40
    Wooden, one-dimensional epic.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Phil Hall 40
    Even if you love all things Yiddish, there is precious little to embrace here.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Phil Hall 40
    Maybe someday an enterprising filmmaker will make a film about this forgotten chapter in Muslim-Jewish relations. It would be a lot more compelling and memorable than the nonsense in Monsieur Ibrahim.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Phil Hall 40
    By the time the film is over it is not so much a "who-done-it?" but a "why-did-we-sit-through-this?"
    • Metascore: 58
    • Phil Hall 40
    In throwing hatchets at Murdoch and his silly Fox network while pretending the rest of the media world is fine and objective, the film comes across as a shrill, one-note slam against a very easy target.
    • Metascore: 91
    • Phil Hall 40
    Achieves the impossible in taking a genuine socio-political tragedy and turning it into an anvil drama which will fray the patience of the most sympathetic audiences.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Phil Hall 40
    While I admire Bishop Jakes and I frequently watch his sermons on TV, I have to question his tactic of charging people admission to generate hosannas on his behalf.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Phil Hall 40
    What may have seemed energetic and innovative four decades ago is fairly enervated today, and only the most rabid Godard fanatics will find reason to seek out its new theatrical re-release.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Phil Hall 40
    The film's screenplay is thick with major lapses in logic, resulting in a story that ultimately makes little sense.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Phil Hall 40
    The film presents the Rwandans in the worst possible way: venal, corrupt, vicious, stupid, barbaric and completely incapable of governing themselves. Honestly, I've seen more intelligent and sympathetic depictions of Africans in Tarzan movies.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Phil Hall 40
    Fairly mundane and frequently boring.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Phil Hall 40
    Beautifully produced but emotionally vacant drama.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Phil Hall 40
    It is a shame the film doesn't cast a wider net into deeper political waters – the outrage is barely scratched in this production.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Phil Hall 40
    Wilson overstuffs the film with endless artsy shots of nature.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Phil Hall 30
    Emily Blunt’s Victoria and Rupert Friend’s Albert come across like museum mannequins – utterly devoid of any genuine passion.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Phil Hall 30
    With a clumsy hip-hop score permeating every free inch of the soundtrack and ugly 16mm cinematography that would never be allowed out of Film School 101, the audio-visual experience is a wreck. The quality of Quality of Life is non-existent.
    • Metascore: 29
    • Phil Hall 30
    The Quiet is best for cheap laughs by jaded moviegoers with absolutely nothing better to do with their time.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Phil Hall 30
    The film is professionally made but a thorough bore at every imaginable level.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Phil Hall 30
    Zhang Yimou is seriously off his game with the utterly ridiculous Curse of the Golden Flower, a new epic that feels like "Hero" meets "The Lion in Winter" meets "Peyton Place." The film is worthless as a serious work of art, but it may offer the jaded viewer a surplus source of MST3K-inspired wisecracks.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Phil Hall 30
    Sadly, the whole affair is little more than ennui with a pedigree.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Phil Hall 30
    The one lesson learned from watching this film is that Canadians can make movies just as badly as anyone else.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Phil Hall 30
    Inert, inept epic.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Phil Hall 30
    A noisy, chaotic affair.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Phil Hall 30
    Writer/director Gary Burns offers a suffocating experience which is too boring to be accepted as a satire, too lame to be accepted as a farce, and too infantile to be accepted as a drama.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Phil Hall 30
    About as funny as a funeral.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Phil Hall 30
    Small, amateurish Israeli feature.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Phil Hall 30
    Perhaps it is a shame that no one thought of digitally restoring and theatrically releasing the sex videos that Crane made with the many women he pleasured...that would have been far more entertaining than anything found in Auto Focus.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Phil Hall 30
    Nothing more than a big old chunk of horse poop.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Phil Hall 30
    Easily the most surprising comedy of his career. The surprise: it's not funny.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Phil Hall 30
    An Italian-British-French-Spanish-Romanian co-production. A better argument against multinational cooperation cannot be imagined.