Keith Phipps
Tomatometer-approved critic
Publications:
New York Magazine/Vulture,
Rolling Stone,
AV Club,
GQ,
TV Guide,
The Dissolve,
The Verge,
Uproxx,
The Ringer,
Polygon,
MEL Magazine
Critics' Group:
Chicago Film Critics Association
Official Websites:
http://https://twitter.com/kphipps3000
Movie Reviews Only
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90% | Wattstax (2000) |
The swaggering "Theme From Shaft" fades into the unsparingly sad state-of-the-community number "Soulsville," beautifully summing up what's come before. - AV Club
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| Posted Dec 17, 2020
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26% | Jiu Jitsu (2020) |
Once it kicks into gear, it never feels like a waste of viewers' time, either. - Polygon
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| Posted Nov 16, 2020
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39% | Rebecca (2020) |
There's no way to watch it without being reminded you could be watching Hitchcock's version instead. - The Ringer
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| Posted Oct 23, 2020
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88% | The Mummy (1932) |
An eerie, weirdly moving film about loneliness and the persistence of history. - AV Club
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| Posted Oct 6, 2020
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87% | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) |
Shatner and Montalban never share the same space, but their face-offs highlight the film, as they both wring every drop of drama out of their lines. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 9, 2020
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60/100 | 78% | Greyhound (2020) |
As living room viewing, it's the sort of movie that plays beautifully on a lazy Sunday afternoon, when the explosions and sound of bending steel matter less than the characters they threaten. - TV Guide
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| Posted Jul 9, 2020
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93% | Irma Vep (1996) |
A funny and fascinatingly open-ended look at the state of the art, Irma Vep is well worth a look. - AV Club
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| Posted Jun 16, 2020
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98% | Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) |
Kiki's slow pace and light-on-conflict plot may surprise kids... but it's difficult not to be won over by the film's endearing characters and beautiful animation, as well as a storyline that stresses the values of independence and friendship. - AV Club
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| Posted Jun 11, 2020
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92% | Night Warning (1983) |
It's an exceptional film, both in its execution and its content. - Fangoria
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| Posted May 21, 2020
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21% | Mercury Rising (1998) |
There's such a lack of vision behind Mercury Rising that the title could have it going in either direction and it would still end up in the same familiar place. - AV Club
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| Posted Apr 23, 2020
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B+ | 90% | The Wolf Man (1941) |
It finds modern sophistication and cultured intellects unprepared to deal with a threat that's already at hand, maybe even under our own skin. - AV Club
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| Posted Apr 13, 2020
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65% | 13 Going on 30 (2004) |
Apart from the moment when Garner unselfconsciously flirts with a 13-year-old boy, the film is pretty much devoid of comic spark, and though it seems to have sweet intentions, it keeps sending mixed messages. - AV Club
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| Posted Mar 25, 2020
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A- | 61% | The Mummy (1999) |
It's passable entertainment, but it'll likely leave you wanting more. - AV Club
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| Posted Feb 26, 2020
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86% | Color Out of Space (2020) |
Cage serves the film well, playing Nathan as a man whose personality seems to fluctuate as if being distorted by cosmic radiation. - Polygon
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| Posted Jan 23, 2020
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41% | The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) |
As it goes with the TV show, so it goes with the movie, which benefits from being shot largely in Rome and suffers from trying to stretch its sitcom antics to feature length. - AV Club
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| Posted Jan 15, 2020
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52% | Charlie's Angels (2019) |
The film emerges as a perfectly agreeable action movie, one that's both true to the concept of Charlie's Angels, and probably unrecognizable to anyone time-traveling from the 1970s. That's okay, though. Some concepts have to evolve to survive. - Polygon
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| Posted Nov 18, 2019
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56% | The Santa Clause 2 (2002) |
Despite the obviously mercenary nature of this sequel, there's a thimbleful of clever ideas at work here, most notably in the way Allen's RoboSanta begins to turn his toy factory into a tiny dictatorship. - AV Club
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| Posted Nov 4, 2019
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52% | Boxcar Bertha (1972) |
Boxcar Bertha is filled with recognizably Scorsese touches. - The Ringer
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| Posted Nov 1, 2019
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100% | Nightjohn (1996) |
Smart, memorable and well worth seeing, Nightjohn is the sort of film that often gets undeservedly overlooked. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 27, 2019
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74% | Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019) |
It's a pretty thin premise for a movie, but that's not necessarily a problem. - The Verge
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| Posted Sep 20, 2019
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62% | It Chapter Two (2019) |
It's an appreciably less-engaging film in every way, suffering from lurching storytelling, wild vacillations in tone (even within scenes), and a strong cast that never fully gels as a group. - The Verge
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| Posted Sep 6, 2019
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85% | Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (2019) |
A bittersweet, complex, conversation-starting look back at the film business at the close of a tumultuous decade, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood also works as a strong argument for why it's too soon for Tarantino to pack it in. - Slate
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| Posted Aug 5, 2019
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67% | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) |
Even though Statham and Johnson are both big, bald slabs of muscle, they make a fun study in contrasts. - The Verge
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| Posted Aug 1, 2019
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90% | Galaxy Quest (1999) |
It's a warm, appealing comedy filled with well-realized characters and jokes ranging from the wry to the slapstick-y. - The Verge
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| Posted Jul 22, 2019
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84% | Crawl (2019) |
Crawl would look pretty good in just about any season. In this one it positively glows. - Slate
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| Posted Jul 13, 2019
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49% | Jurassic Park III (2001) |
The latest sequel to Steven Spielberg's clever, scary 1993 original is even less necessary than Spielberg's borderline nonsensical (but still pretty entertaining) 1997 follow-up, The Lost World. - AV Club
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| Posted Jun 26, 2019
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40% | Scream 3 (2000) |
Virtually none of the craftsmanship of Craven's best is on display here, and what good ideas do turn up are largely recycled from previous efforts. This Scream has been widely marketed as the series' final installment. Better late than never. - AV Club
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| Posted Jun 17, 2019
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22% | Dark Phoenix (2019) |
Still, Dark Phoenix deserves points for taking a new approach. - The Verge
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| Posted Jun 5, 2019
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56% | Ma (2019) |
As might be expected from an actress who frequently finds depths in roles both large and small, Spencer takes the chance to get beneath her character's skin. - The Verge
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| Posted May 30, 2019
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52% | Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998) |
Why Do Fools Fall In Love never really conveys the essence of its subject. - AV Club
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| Posted May 23, 2019
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94% | Shadow (2019) |
Even without its distinctive look, Shadow would be memorable, an accomplished fusion of what Zhang does well, but the visuals take it to another plane. - The Verge
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| Posted May 8, 2019
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1% | Alone in the Dark (2005) |
Beware the film that confuses before it even begins. - AV Club
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| Posted Apr 9, 2019
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45% | The Cell (2000) |
Almost worth seeing because there's nothing else like it, it's also easy to wish there never will be again. - AV Club
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| Posted Mar 31, 2019
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22% | Practical Magic (1998) |
ts flat whimsy, VH1-ready musical montage sequences, and less-than-magic magic realism will probably not be enough to hold the attention of all but the most undiscriminating fans of witches and Stockard Channing. - AV Club
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| Posted Mar 30, 2019
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39% | Reefer Madness (Tell Your Children) (Doped Youth) (1936) |
Espers' 1936 film deserves its reputation as one of the most entertainingly bad movies ever made. - AV Club
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| Posted Mar 29, 2019
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90% | Shazam! (2019) |
It's almost as if superhero stories were at heart about wish fulfillment. It's almost as if they're allowed to be fun. - The Verge
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| Posted Mar 23, 2019
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100% | For the Love of Spock (2016) |
The film offers a better sense of who Leonard Nimoy was, and where Spock came from, than a more objective approach could. - The Verge
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91% | High Flying Bird (2019) |
Yet, regardless of how the film looks, Soderbergh's pacing and gift for editing are what keep the action tight, while McCraney's crisp dialogue livens up potentially mundane, exposition-heavy exchanges. - The Verge
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| Posted Feb 8, 2019
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59% | Deep Blue Sea (1999) |
Deep Blue Sea, a sort of cross between Aliens (without the thrills) and The Poseidon Adventure (without the camp compensations), doesn't deliver the killer-shark-versus-A-list-character-actor thrills you crave. - AV Club
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| Posted Jan 11, 2019
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38% | Gummo (1997) |
Take away the shock value, and there isn't much there: just a stylistically promising student film peddling bargain-basement surreal nihilism that, stretched over 90 minutes, grows awfully tedious. - AV Club
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| Posted Jan 7, 2019
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70% | The Mule (2018) |
A spry, funny, moving film that never heads in the direction in which it looks like it's about to head, kind of like its protagonist. - Slate
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| Posted Dec 13, 2018
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87% | Sisters (1973) |
An expertly paced, technically audacious thriller that's too knowing to be easily dismissed as a mere exercise. - AV Club
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| Posted Oct 3, 2018
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B+ | 64% | Race with the Devil (1975) |
Race With The Devil has problems getting over the flat, TV-style direction by Cleopatra Jones director Jack Starrett, but it gets by on engaging drive-in goofiness, even if it's tough to swallow the idea that mid-'70s Texas swarmed with Satanists. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 27, 2018
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63% | The Wild Angels (1966) |
In many ways, The Wild Angels was a bellwether of where the decade was headed. - The Verge
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| Posted Sep 7, 2018
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94% | Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018) |
If Come Inside could benefit from a little more candor and invention, Williams himself prevents it from becoming predictable. - Rolling Stone
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| Posted Jul 13, 2018
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B+ | 85% | Downhill Racer (1969) |
Downhill Racer doesn't always work... As a look at how [Robert] Redford's character and those orbiting him spend their time between runs, however, it's superb. - AV Club
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| Posted May 30, 2018
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80% | Unsane (2018) |
Watching Stephen Soderbergh's Unsane is like being locked in a circus cage with a tiger. - Uproxx
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| Posted Mar 21, 2018
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39% | The Strangers: Prey At Night (2018) |
From the first notes of Adrian Johnston's John Carpenter-inspired score to the retro font used for the title card, Prey At Night sets itself up as an homage to classic slasher films, and mostly does right by its inspirations. - Uproxx
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| Posted Mar 8, 2018
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87% | Thoroughbreds (2018) |
It plays at times like a new take on Strangers on a Train in which both parties commit to unspeakable acts without any reservations. - Uproxx
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| Posted Mar 6, 2018
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23% | The 15:17 to Paris (2018) |
Whatever he's done in the past, Eastwood here seems most interested in paying tribute to some men who deserve the commendation - nothing more, and nothing less - Uproxx
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| Posted Feb 8, 2018
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