Phil Hall

Phil Hall HotWired's Pop Apr 9, 2021 Landmark documentary. Go to Full Review Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938) 89% 86%

Phil Hall HotWired's Pop Apr 9, 2021 It remains fascinating. Go to Full Review Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) 80% 88%

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Jan 19, 2020 2/5 The adventure turns into a grotesque exaggeration of Murphy's Law - anything that can go wrong happens tenfold. Go to Full Review 1917 (2019) 88% - -

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Dec 5, 2019 1/5 Here is something that you don't see every day: a documentary that gets its facts wrong. Go to Full Review Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) 97% 94%

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Nov 12, 2018 1.5/5 The cinematic equivalent of throwing spaghetti against the wall - sadly, nothing really sticks, leaving the viewer with a wasted pasta of a movie. Go to Full Review The Other Side of the Wind (2018) 82% 58%

Phil Hall Film Threat Jan 9, 2018 5/5 Disturbing and very different. Seek this one out. Go to Full Review The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965) 100% 71%

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Dec 21, 2017 1.5/5 With a blubbery voice and a penchant for cutesy physical movements, Gary Oldman does a smashing impersonation of Benny Hill's Mr. Scuttle, but the resemblance to Britain's wartime leader isn't quite there. Go to Full Review Darkest Hour (2017) 84% 82%

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Dec 14, 2017 1.5/5 It feels like a mean-spirited parody of Annie Hall. Go to Full Review Manhattan (1979) 93% 92%

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Dec 6, 2017 0/5 Streep, as usual, is all hand gestures and eye flutters, speaking softly while carrying a big shtick. Go to Full Review The Post (2017) 88% 74%

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Nov 30, 2017 0/5 This film is one holiday gift that deserves to go back to the Returns Department. Go to Full Review The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) 79% 77%

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Nov 11, 2017 0/5 Horrendous Go to Full Review I Love You, Daddy (2017) 37% 54%

Phil Hall Film Snobbery Dec 21, 2016 1.5/5 Anyone coming to this work for the first time should be forewarned that the will generate more giggles (and perhaps a yawn or two), but there is absolutely nothing here to fear. Go to Full Review The Shining (1980) 74% 90%

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Dec 21, 2016 1/5 A one-note bore. Go to Full Review La La Land (2016) 91% 80%

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Dec 1, 2016 3/5 Who needs CGI idols when you have this fresh, profane dynamo of a superstar? Go to Full Review Dolemite (1975) 64% 66%

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Dec 1, 2016 3/5 Deserves respect for attempting to offer a user-friendly consideration of what Snowden tried to achieve. Go to Full Review Snowden (2016) 61% 70%

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Dec 1, 2016 1.5/5 The elusive and celebrated young man seemed to be something of a bore. Go to Full Review I Am JFK Jr. (2016) - - 55%

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Dec 1, 2016 3/5 A fascinating view of a doomed film. Go to Full Review Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (2015) 77% 64%

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Dec 1, 2016 3/5 A moving portrait of a brave man's struggle against ALS. Go to Full Review Gleason (2016) 96% 90%

Phil Hall Cinema Crazed Dec 1, 2016 3/5 Impressive documentary on Guatemala's reformist Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz Go to Full Review Burden of Peace (2014) - - - -

Phil Hall Film Snobbery Dec 1, 2016 3.5/5 Artistically ambitious B-movie classic. Go to Full Review Gun Crazy (1950) 91% 84%