Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

Agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

Biography:
Michael W. Phillips Jr. started reviewing films at the age of 15, when he walked into the local newspaper office and asked if they wanted a film critic. The paper closed down soon thereafter. He took a break to attend college and start graduate school in History, then he restarted his career as a film critic with a geocities site in 2000. Somewhere in there he had a short-lived professional relationship with a major movie site that he'd rather not discuss. He moved to his own URL in 2004. In 2005, he was hired as a film critic for yet another small, local paper, which ceased publication shortly thereafter. He's reasonably sure he had nothing to do with this, but after closing down two newspapers, he's not positive anymore. He pays the bills by editing print ads for fast food retailers, as well as programming and running the projector at a film revival house. He's also a filmmaker.
Publications:
Goatdog's Movies , Movie-Vault.com
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
1104
Total QuickRatings:
51
Location:
Chicago, IL

Worst Reviewed Films

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0/5 —— Vampires vs. Zombies (2004) " A rendition of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's classic vampire story 'Carmilla,' tossed in a wannabe-Tarantino blender with soft-core porn and zombies." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted May 2, 2006
0/5 25% 9 songs (2005) " Dreary and pointless, drainingly so, and for a movie that consists basically of sex, rock 'n' roll, and drugs (in approximate order of frequency), that's pretty pathetic." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Apr 17, 2005
0/5 18% Paparazzi (2004) " The worst film I have seen in a long, long time." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Sep 12, 2004
0/5 —— Zombie Doom (1999) " I knew, without a doubt, that I was watching the worst movie I had ever seen, or would ever see." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Apr 20, 2003
0/5 0% Megaforce (1982) " The kind of bad that makes you wish you were somewhere, anywhere else." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 28, 2002
0.5/5 89% A Serious Man (2009) " I hated just about every agonizing, smug minute of it." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Dec 17, 2009
0.5/5 —— BloodRayne II: Deliverance (2007) " This film's a minor cinematic crime entirely unworthy of my rhymes." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Apr 2, 2008
0.5/5 —— Hei mao (Black Cat) (1991) " Do you want action? Suspense? Comedy? A good romance? Great acting, direction, and script? Go somewhere else." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted May 4, 2006
0.5/5 19% Domino (2005) " Only my personal vow never to walk out of a movie kept me in the theater until the end credits." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Oct 29, 2005
0.5/5 20% The Ring Two (2005) " Just about as bad as the first film was. If anything, it's a little stupider." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Apr 15, 2005
0.5/5 44% Nabbeun namja (Bad Guy) (2001) " Almost entirely garbage." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 20, 2005
0.5/5 —— Zombie 4 - After Death (2002) " Not the worst zombie movie I've ever seen, but it was close." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Nov 13, 2004
0.5/5 15% Gothika (2003) " Muddled and stupid." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Nov 30, 2003
0.5/5 43% Dolemite (1975) " This is not a good or enjoyable movie, no matter what the hip guy in your film class says." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Nov 19, 2003
0.5/5 17% House of 1000 Corpses (2003) " A waste of nine bucks and 88 minutes of my life." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Apr 20, 2003
0.5/5 13% Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2 (2000) " This film ranks on my personal lists of: Worst Sequels, Worst Movies, and Worst Examples of Film-making to Cash in on a Trend." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Apr 20, 2003
0.5/5 0% Revolt of the Zombies (1936) " In many, many ways, this is not a good movie." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Dec 16, 2002
0.5/5 26% Swordfish (2001) " Trite and overdone and undercooked and thrown together and ridiculous and wasteful." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jul 20, 2002
0.5/5 34% Resident Evil (2002) " I would say that chaos ensues, but it started the minute the opening credits started to roll, so 'ensuing' is not very helpful. Chaos reigns." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Mar 17, 2002
0.5/5 15% Dracula 2000 (2000) " Unable to add a single new thought or shot to the tired vampire genre." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Mar 10, 2002
0.5/5 39% Hannibal (2001) " An excuse for all types of revolting and offensive gore." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 28, 2002
0.5/5 —— Nightfall () " Do not ever rent this film." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 28, 2002
1/5 —— Zombies on Broadway (1991) Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 29, 2008
1/5 —— Making the Grade (1984) " The filmmakers had studied other teen comedies, but not closely enough to pick up any real feeling for their subjects." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Apr 2, 2007
1/5 73% Idiocracy (2006) " There's about 15 minutes' worth of laughs here; the problem is that the film is 84 minutes long." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Sep 30, 2006
1/5 11% The Man (2005) " There's nothing here you haven't seen elsewhere." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Sep 18, 2005
1/5 16% Cursed (2005) " Messy and disconnected, not scary but not really funny, and nearly completely uninteresting." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Mar 7, 2005
1/5 45% The Day After Tomorrow (2004) " Colossal, cheesy, and meaningless." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jun 5, 2004
1/5 19% The Beach (2000) Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 28, 2002
1/5 38% Marie Baie des Anges (Marie from the Bay of Angels) (Angel Sharks) (1998) " By the time the plot (if you can call it that) went off the deep end ... I had already stopped caring." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 28, 2002
1/5 22% Stigmata (1999) Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 28, 2002
1/5 19% New Rose Hotel (1999) " A major misfire from one of my favorite directors." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 28, 2002
1.5/5 —— The Big Tits Dragon (Kyonyû doragon: Onsen zonbi vs sutorippâ 5) (2010) " This film, called Big Tits Zombie and featuring both big tits and zombies, is unforgivably boring." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Oct 17, 2010
1.5/5 70% Sherlock Holmes (2009) " A loud, stupid film." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jan 31, 2010
1.5/5 72% Carmen Jones (1954) " A film in which talented, attractive people sing ugly lyrics to beautiful music in other people's beautiful voices amid ugly shot framing and ill-timed cutting." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Oct 1, 2009
1.5/5 39% Hot Rod (2007) " Even the funny bits are ruined by overemphasis." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Aug 18, 2007
1.5/5 —— Dangerous Passage (1944) " The bad guys ... are indistinguishable except for their hats, and our hero is indistinguishable from the deck furniture." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jan 13, 2007
1.5/5 94% The Music Man (1962) " One of the most obnoxious musicals ever to be staged for movie cameras." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Sep 29, 2006
1.5/5 73% Around the World in 80 Days (1956) " This is the worst film to win the Best Picture Oscar." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Sep 10, 2006
1.5/5 24% Lady in the Water (2006) " It's thin stuff, stretched out to nearly two hours by Shyamalan's faith in his own abilities, but not much else." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jul 23, 2006
1.5/5 —— Call It Murder () " It wasn't really terrible, but I have no idea what kind of point it was trying to make." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted May 7, 2006
1.5/5 50% In Old Arizona (1928) " If it appears that I'm being too hard on this film, one doesn't have to look very far to see far superior films, both sound and silent, released around the same time." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted May 2, 2006
1.5/5 64% Koroshiya 1 (Ichi the Killer) (2001) " I think there is a line between ... exploring sadism and practicing it, and Miike takes a Carl Lewis long jump over that line and doesn't look back." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted May 21, 2005
1.5/5 —— Smilin' Through (1932) " It shows off the weaknesses of its leads; it stews in rank sentimentality; and it suffers from an uneven tone and attention-killing pacing problems." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Feb 12, 2005
1.5/5 79% Ivanhoe (1952) " I could do while watching it was giggle." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Jan 16, 2005
1.5/5 —— Hard Rock Zombies (2004) " It's atrocious, but in an enjoyble way. Except for the music, which is not enjoyable in any way." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Dec 5, 2004
1.5/5 30% Flashdance (1983) " An utterly preposterous piece of Reagan-era bootstrapping propaganda." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Sep 4, 2004
1.5/5 22% Van Helsing (2004) " Sommers is just painting by numbers." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted May 22, 2004
1.5/5 31% Underworld (2003) " Such an awful wreck of a movie that there must be a good, fun-bad movie lurking in there waiting for a good editor to dig it out." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted Oct 12, 2003
1.5/5 50% Onmyoji (2001) " The worst foreign film I have ever seen in the theater." — Goatdog's Movies
Posted May 4, 2003
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