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PHIL VILLARREAL

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Biography: Phil Villarreal blogs about movies at becauseitoldyouso.com. His book Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel is due out Sept. 1.

Favorites: Waking Life, Swingers, Clerks, Reservoir Dogs, Rocky, True Romance

Publications: Arizona Daily Star

Critics' Group: Phoenix Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 1622
Total QuickRatings: 94

Location: Tucson

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Rotten 2/4	Rotten 37%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" Heavier on demons than angels." Posted May 14, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 97%	Up (2009)	" A Pixar pinnacle. That may seem like outlandish praise, given the animation studio's sterling tax record. But when was the last time you walked out of a Pixar movie simply giddy, as if you were high on computer-animated pixels?" Posted May 13, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 70%	Rudo and Cursi (2009)	" The actors' chemistry lifts what might have been an average sports melodrama to something near special." Posted May 10, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 38%	Gigantic (2008)	" Happy would be sad if you didn't want to see her story. And you wouldn't like a Manic Pixie Dream Girl when she's angry." Posted May 9, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" For the first time in 15 years, Star Trek actually matters." Posted May 6, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 32%	Fanboys (2009)	" What if the movie sucks?" Posted Apr 29, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 36%	X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)	" Whoever pirated X-Men Origins: Wolverine got a punishment that fit the crime." Posted Apr 29, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 15%	The Informers (2009)	" An aimless mess. But at least the mess is sexy and exciting." Posted Apr 24, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 89%	Sin Nombre (2009)	" Imagine City of God without the zippy camerawork or Slumdog Millionaire without the millionaire and you get the feel of Sin Nombre." Posted Apr 23, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 55%	The Soloist (2009)	" A duet, with two master performers collaborating in absorbing harmony." Posted Apr 22, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 78%	12 (2007)	" Mikhalkov is probably a little too successful at re-creating the feeling of being trapped at a seemingly never-ending meeting." Posted Apr 15, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 56%	17 Again (2009)	" Turns out there's more to Zac Efron than the grinning, vacant marionette from the High School Musical series." Posted Apr 15, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 92%	The Black Balloon (2008)	" The outlines are broad and obvious, and Thomas such a bore, that The Black Balloon loses air." Posted Apr 8, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 51%	Observe and Report (2009)	" If you would have told me that Kevin James and Seth Rogen would basically make the same movie and both would have come out the same, I wouldn't have believed you." Posted Apr 8, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 73%	The Great Buck Howard (2009)	" Malkovich expertly starts the relationship between his character and the audience on several wrong feet before winning us over." Posted Apr 1, 2009
N/A	Fresh 88%	Adventureland (2009)	" Failure shaped Mottola's outlook" INTERVIEW Posted Apr 1, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 88%	Adventureland (2009)	" The thunder that follows the Superbad lightning." Posted Apr 1, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 84%	Two Lovers (2009)	" If this is it for Joaquin Phoenix's film career, at least he's going out the right way." Posted Mar 25, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 72%	Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)	" I liked it more than anything Pixar has made the last five years." Posted Mar 25, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 82%	I Love You, Man (2009)	" I sort of like you, man.." Posted Mar 18, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	N/A	Beisbol: The Latin Game (2007)	" A spirited, enchanting baseball doc." Posted Mar 16, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 4%	Miss March (2009)	" They've got enough solid material for a half-hour sitcom, including two great, oh-so-politically incorrect lines worthy of integrating into the annals of pop culture, but that does not a feature film make." Posted Mar 13, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 97%	The Class (2008)	" The hard-hitting film makes most other school-based films resemble child's play, as careers and futures of both the teacher and student hang in the balance, in the uncaring hands of an indifferent system." Posted Mar 12, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 84%	Wendy and Lucy (2008)	" Here's one movie that will make you want to go home and hug your dog." Posted Mar 5, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 64%	Watchmen (2009)	" Tends to play like the SportsCenter version of the big game. It's got all the highlights but little of the tension and atmosphere that give those moments impact." Posted Mar 4, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 63%	Che (2008)	" It's a fight with your bladder and attention span worth waging." Posted Feb 25, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 68%	Were the World Mine (2008)	" All teen comedies would be this divine were the world Gustafson's." Posted Feb 13, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 13%	The Pink Panther 2 (2009)	" I laughed once, at an unexpected gag, involving a ricocheting bullet, that was a nice play on an old gunfighting cliche. The rest of the film was a slow-bleeding gut shot." Posted Feb 6, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 88%	Coraline (2009)	" The 3-D in Coraline is so low-key that I forgot it was there for much of the film. But maybe that's less a knock on the visuals than it is a compliment to the movie's ability to pull me into its zany world." Posted Feb 4, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 85%	Azur and Asmar - The Princes' Quest (2008)	" The film is full of out-there artistic decisions that don't quite pay off, it makes you feel like you're taking medicine without a spoonful of sugar." Posted Jan 28, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 70%	The Midnight Meat Train (2008)	" Goes full speed on ultra-gory rails before slamming to an abrupt stop." Posted Jan 28, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 18%	New in Town (2009)	" It's a given dis one is more fer da ladies than da fellas, and some of da dialogue is pretnear hard da swallow." Posted Jan 28, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 98%	The Wrestler (2008)	" It was almost worth the malaise of watching Mickey Rourke squander years of potential just so he could make his grand comeback." Posted Jan 22, 2009
N/A	Rotten 57%	Yonkers Joe (2008)	" Return of the Othicks" INTERVIEW Posted Jan 22, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 57%	Yonkers Joe (2008)	" The typecast actor breaks out of his comfort zone." Posted Jan 21, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 34%	Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)	" Producer Adam Sandler must have though so little of the film that he didn't even see it fit for a Rob Schneider cameo." Posted Jan 16, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 85%	JCVD (2008)	" You could hit up the DVD value bin and stage yourself a Lionheart and Kickboxer marathon to see the man the way he'd want to be remembered. Or at least the way I'd like to remember him." Posted Jan 15, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 56%	Defiance (2008)	" Zwick thrives on these sorts of historical action flicks, and he pumps the adrenal glands throughout." Posted Jan 15, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 69%	Revolutionary Road (2008)	" This cracked social mirror the director holds up to society is no pretty sight. Although it's impossible to turn away." Posted Jan 14, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 80%	Gran Torino (2008)	" Just like Walt's Gran Torino, Eastwood's engine is still purring as well as it did in '72." Posted Jan 8, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 13%	Bride Wars (2009)	" As romantic as the dollar dance and as funny as the quips from a hokey wedding DJ." Posted Jan 7, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 62%	The Reader (2008)	" Profound but too dyslexic for its own good." Posted Jan 2, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 60%	Valkyrie (2008)	" Bryan Singer has managed a new, unexpected feat %u2014 he's learned to make boring movies." Posted Dec 24, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 90%	I've Loved You So Long (2008)	" Makes the most out of dead air and empty spaces." Posted Dec 24, 2008
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 92%	Frost/Nixon (2008)	" Truly shines as a bare-bones filmmaking exercise." Posted Dec 24, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 78%	Doubt (2008)	" A melodrama that changes the rules in an effort to seem fresh. But at its heart it's still a boo-here, hiss-there formula romp." Posted Dec 24, 2008
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 23%	Bedtime Stories (2008)	" Kids will have the best time, because the comedy is geared toward them and they won't remember the Sandler who wouldn't sleepwalk through roles." Posted Dec 24, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 72%	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	" Damn thing never seems to end." Posted Dec 24, 2008
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 27%	Seven Pounds (2008)	" But even without the head-shaker ending, the movie would have been a failure due to Smith's lackadaisical performance." Posted Dec 18, 2008
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 94%	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	" Hardscrabble British director Danny Boyle does an astounding job at building and maintaining suspense." Posted Dec 18, 2008

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