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PHIL HALL
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BIOGRAPHY
Phil Hall is a contributing editor for Film Threat. He is also the book editor for the New York Resident weekly newspaper.
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Total Reviews: 841

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(This Critic's Cinematic Taste as Determined by Rotten Tomatoes)
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5 Iraq in Fragments
4.5/5 All My Loving
3.5/4 Sins of Jezebel
4/5 Screamers
3.5/5 Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds
3/5 Poster Boy
2.5/5 The Outlaw
2/5 Wordplay
1.5/5 Hermanas
1/5 Road To Hollywood
0.5/5 Idiocracy
0/5 Open Cam
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 The Night of the Shooting Stars
5/5 Plan 9 From Syracuse
5/5 A Christmas Carol
5/5 Life of Reilly
5/5 Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
5/5 Christian the Lion
5/5 Another Sky
5/5 Sacco & Vanzetti
5/5 Flatland: The Film
5/5 King Lear
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/5 Coffee Date
0/5 Captain & Tennille - Christmas Show
0/5 Song of Norway
0/5 La Vie En Rose
0/5 Shanghai Surprise
0/5 Dog The Bounty Hunter - The Best of Season 3
0/5 From Other Worlds
0/5 Paul McCartney: The Space Within Us
0/5 Open Cam
0/5 The Groomsmen
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 58% of the time.

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1.5/5
 
"The result is anything but poetic." -- Film Threat
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets (1989)n/a
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2/5
 
"It's a shame the film doesn't cast a wider net into deeper political waters." -- Film Threat
Posted Apr 26, 2008
 
Without the King (2007)93%
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1.5/5
 
"Don't be surprised if you find your thumb inching to the fast-forward button." -- Film Threat
Posted Apr 23, 2008
 
You Belong to Me: Elusive Lover ()n/a
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2.5/5
 
"This is vintage so-bad-it's-good material." -- Film Threat
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)n/a
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5/5
 
"One of the greatest films of the 1980s." -- Film Threat
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)67%
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1.5/5
 
"Monotonous and frequently amateurish." -- Film Threat
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
Bubbe Meises, Bubbe Stories (1994)n/a
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3/5
 
"Anyone who thinks show biz is glamorous and easy should watch this film." -- Film Threat
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)88%
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3/5
 
"For social significance, if not artistic depth, the film deserves a contemporary audience." -- Film Threat
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
The Dragon Painter (1919)100%
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3/5
 
"One of the most bizarre films of the 1930s." -- Film Threat
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Lot In Sodom (1933)n/a
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1/5
 
"Although it runs 78 minutes, it feels like 78 hours. This is a Jellyfish with no sting." -- Film Threat
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Jellyfish (2008)79%
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2.5/5
 
"Technicolor Parisian travelogue, MGM-style, that barely skims the Fitzgerald source material." -- Film Threat
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)83%
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2.5/5
 
"Best for Anthony Dean Griffey's vigorous performance as the doomed lumberjack." -- Film Threat
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny - Conlon, LuPone (2007)n/a
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1.5/5
 
"That wacky old Faust gets himself into the worst imaginable bargain." -- Film Threat
Posted Mar 4, 2008
 
Ferruccio Busoni - Doktor Faust / Philippe Jordan, Thomas Hampson (2006)n/a
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3/5
 
"Compelling documentary on the creation of the racially-charged opera." -- Film Threat
Posted Feb 20, 2008
 
Margaret Garner (2006)n/a
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4/5
 
"The arrival of the film is, to misuse a dervish cliche, something worth singing and dancing about." -- Film Threat
Posted Feb 10, 2008
 
Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008)63%
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3/5
 
"It is difficult not to be moved by the women's medical progress." -- Film Threat
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Walk to Beautiful, A (2008)88%
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1.5/5
 
"Too artsy for its own good." -- Film Threat
Posted Feb 6, 2008
 
Mala Noche (1985)94%
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3.5/5
 
"Engaging documentary on the master architect's work in 1920s Japan." -- Film Threat
Posted Feb 5, 2008
 
Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright's Buildings & Legacy in Japan (2005)n/a
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1.5/5
 
"Too many sequences are so poorly recorded that subtitling is required to decipher what is being said." -- Film Threat
Posted Jan 28, 2008
 
Orthodox Stance (2008)47%
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4/5
 
"A charming farce centered around the glorious Josephine Baker." -- Film Threat
Posted Jan 25, 2008
 
The French Way (1940)n/a
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5/5
 
"The year's best documentary, bar none." -- Film Threat
Posted Jan 23, 2008
 
Plan 9 From Syracuse (2007)n/a
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1/5
 
"An all-star home movie." -- Film Threat
Posted Jan 11, 2008
 
Beat the Devil (1954)78%
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4/5
 
"Marvelous collection of Langdon's rarely-seen shorts from his Sennett and talkie periods." -- Film Threat
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Lost and Found: The Harry Langdon Collection ()n/a
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5/5
 
"Scary Christmas, via Richard Williams' brilliant Oscar-winning animated short." -- Film Threat
Posted Dec 25, 2007
 
A Christmas Carol (1972)n/a
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2.5/5
 
"Typical disease-of-the-week TV fare, made memorable by a young John Travolta on the cusp of superstardom." -- Film Threat
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)n/a
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0/5
 
"Honestly, this awful little movie should have stayed in the closet." -- Film Threat
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
Coffee Date (2006)47%
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3/5
 
"Hey, how would you like to see Sylvester Stallone naked?" -- Film Threat
Posted Dec 4, 2007
 
Italian Stallion (1970)n/a
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2/5
 
"The only obvious question that Oswald's Ghost raises is: how come Mort Sahl wasn't in the movie?" -- Film Threat
Posted Dec 2, 2007
 
Oswald's Ghost (2007)74%
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5/5
 
"Anyone expecting epicene camp or gossip about Gene Rayburn and Fannie Flagg will not know what hit them." -- EDGE Boston
Posted Nov 29, 2007
 
Life of Reilly (2007)100%
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0/5
 
"Rarely has a holiday presentation been as dreary and inert as this sad little affair." -- EDGE Boston
Posted Nov 27, 2007
 
Captain & Tennille - Christmas Show (1976)n/a
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3/5
 
"Dan Katzir's film is, in many ways, an elegy to the Yiddish theater." -- Film Threat
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story (2007)87%
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2.5/5
 
"Androgynous young men with samurai swords face lumpy gangsters with guns while ethereal girl-wizards flit in and out through holes in the air." -- EDGE Boston
Posted Nov 8, 2007
 
Karas: The Revelation (2007)n/a
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2/5
 
"It is a production that is constantly at odds with itself in regard to both style and substance." -- Film Threat
Posted Oct 29, 2007
 
Shinbone Alley (1971)n/a
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2.5/5
 
"It is difficult to watch Nosferatu simply because it is so hard to find a decent copy of the film." -- Film Threat
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
Nosferatu (1922)98%
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2/5
 
"The idea of cavemen celebrating a holiday designed to commemorate the birth of Jesus is, on its own terms, decidedly peculiar." -- EDGE Boston
Posted Oct 24, 2007
 
A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1995)n/a
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2/5
 
"There's a dreadful sense of been-there/done-that in watching this straight-to-DVD holiday offering." -- EDGE Boston
Posted Oct 24, 2007
 
Tom & Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale ()n/a
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1/5
 
"As a history lesson, the film is so elementary and silly that you'd half-expect to find Mr. Peabody and Sherman peeking around the Wailing Wall." -- EDGE Boston
Posted Oct 24, 2007
 
O Jerusalem (2007)30%
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3/5
 
"Even with its imperfections and politically incorrect presentation, this film is a memorable achievement." -- Film Threat
Posted Oct 24, 2007
 
Othello (1965)80%
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3/5
 
"If the film is a failure, then at least it is a striking and provocative failure that attempted to challenge audiences." -- Film Threat
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Zabriskie Point (1970)63%
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3.5/5
 
"Intelligent, often poignant, and valuable for offering an oral history by those who witnessed one of the most traumatic events of the 20th century." -- Film Threat
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007)100%
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0/5
 
"If you ever wondered why Florence Henderson never became a movie star, this film will answer that question." -- Film Threat
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
Song of Norway (1970)n/a
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1.5/5
 
"Harper's Meir speaks softly and carries a big shtick." -- Film Threat
Posted Oct 11, 2007
 
Golda's Balcony (2007)67%
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2.5/5
 
"Beatles fans have always been too kind in overlooking the film's obvious flaws." -- Film Threat
Posted Oct 8, 2007
 
The Beatles - Help! (1965)90%
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3/5
 
"From a historic perspective, if not an artistic one, the film deserves to be sought out and reconsidered." -- Film Threat
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
Tamango (1959)n/a
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2/5
 
"The film is stuck with an utterly quotidian screenplay that never truly provokes the viewer." -- Film Threat
Posted Oct 3, 2007
 
The Girl Next Door (2007)62%
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3.5/5
 
"Even in its badly chopped American edition, this French animated feature deserves to be seen and appreciated." -- Film Threat
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
Johnny the Giant Killer (1954)n/a
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2.5/5
 
"You haven't lived until you've seen the film's train-bound finale, with a two-fisted E.G. Marshall smacking Harold Sakata while Rita Hayworth carries a yapping poodle as she wobbles around in a druggie haze." -- Film Threat
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
The Poppy is Also a Flower (1966)n/a
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2/5
 
"Too sloppy to make any genuine impact." -- Film Threat
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
The Slanted Screen: Asian Men In Film & Television (2006)n/a
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2.5/5
 
"It is a painful but important subject, to be certain, but the film dilutes its own effectiveness by devolving into a collection of talking heads who often seem to be repeating each other." -- Film Threat
Posted Sep 13, 2007
 
Unknown Soldier (2006)60%

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