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OFCS Rating: 78% Fresh |
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4/5 | "I was on the edge of my seat throughout most of the movie." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Blake French |
3/4 | "Its quick pace and engaging performances make it far more involving than simple experimentation." |
| Nitrate Online |
| Dan Lybarger |
A- | "Joel Schumacher’s latest film is a thrilling, suspenseful 90 minutes... and it’s great entertainment." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
4/4 | "...80 minutes of pure and unflinching brilliance, a nonstop adrenaline rush that is as exhilarating and engrossing as the great summer blockbusters of the past." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
3/4 | "...there's no denying that Phone Booth is mostly an exemplary thriller..." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
C+ | "All the heavy moralizing that comes after the nutty scenario soon becomes tiresome, and it left me wanting to hang-up on this film." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
2.5/4 | "More of a stunt than a fully-developed motion picture, but it is nonetheless pulled off with an engrossing flair." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
2.5/4 | "May have worked better as an 80s parable or with Larry Cohen behind the camera but it gets the juices pumping nonetheless." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Ed Gonzalez |
B | "I, for one, will never answer a pay phone again." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
3.5/4 | "It would have been quite fascinating to see what Hitchcock would have done with the idea, but he would certainly admit that Schumacher, Farrell and Sutherland have done him proud." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B | "Still a good movie: taut, tight, spare, invigorating. With a better filmmaker at the helm it could have been a great movie, a modern classic." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
3/4 | "Phone Booth is a subversively dandy escapist flick that uses its confinement and crassness as its wickedly hysterical calling card...won’t leave anybody disconnected from its action-packed gaudiness." |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
C | "A thin conceit...slick, hyperkinetic but utterly superficial. You just might want to hang up." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
| "Phone Booth is a taut psychological thriller about a scary encounter between a vigilante sniper and a self-centered publicity agent who is brought face-to-face with his sins of spin." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
3/4 | "The best way to describe Phone Booth is preposterous but entertaining." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
1/5 | "Joel Schumacher, master of the overblown, tries to craft a stripped-down, simple thriller and fails as desperately as only he can." |
| Netflix |
| James Rocchi |
3/4 | "Eighty-one minutes of sheer anxiety." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
9/10 | "At the core, a gimmick movie, but if all gimmick movies were as well-executed as this, I'd have little reason to complain about them -- ever." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
3/4 | "For a straightforward, populist popcorn movie, you could do a lot worse than this. It's a clean, effective thriller." |
| MovieMartyr.com |
| Jeremy Heilman |
5/10 | "While intriguing and even engaging for a while, the effort runs out of gas and real estate far too soon." |
| Screen It! |
| Jim Judy |
7/10 | "Phone Booth is a great call." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
| "Thanks to a sharp screenplay by Larry Cohen, "Phone Booth" rings up a fair amount of suspense and pathos." |
| Light Views |
| John Larsen |
8/10 | "There's a lot of really implausible stuff here, but that doesn't stop it from being a whole lot of fun." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
3/4 | "'Enlace Mortal es un sólido thriller que representa una de las mejores opciones de escapismo que han llegado a las pantallas en lo que va del año. Verdaderamente recomendable.'" |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
3.5/5 | "Plays with the notions of personal responsibility and personal connection in a society increasingly desensitized to these things." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
3/4 | "Between Farrell’s wrenching performance and Sutherland’s ominous voice-over, 'Phone Booth' is more suspenseful than most movies." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
A- | "A tight, suspenseful, compelling movie that may very well revolutionize the action film genre." |
| Countingdown.com |
| Larry Carroll |
3/5 | "The payoff doesn't quite equal the intensity of the spectacularly squirm-inducing premise, but Farrell takes his showboating star turn and runs with it." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
3/4 | "An experiment in tension that pays off admirably." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
2/4 | "The situation requires something more believably frightening than "a madman"" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "Quick, dirty, and economical, with an on-the-fly energy that Hollywood films rarely evince these days." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
2.5/5 | "What might have been a pretty decent claustrophobic thriller turns into a Mr. Rogers moral lesson (be nice to the pizza delivery guy)." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
3.5/4 | "This is the kind of thriller I most enjoy seeing - one that really pulls me in, makes me feel the danger, and keeps me thinking on my way out the door." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
C- | "Farrell and Whitaker are always great to watch, but the movie feels manipulative and padded." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
4/5 | "Um suspense bem realizado que se beneficia principalmente da personalidade fascinante de seu vilão." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
| "Joel Schumacher's high-concept thriller is a prime example of what can go wrong when a promising idea is poorly executed." |
| TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
| Rick Curnutte |
B- | "For all its high-profile exposure, it's basically a gimmicky throwaway with only a hot star to separate it from direct-to-cable obscurity. That's not necessarily a criticism." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B | "It works, thanks mainly to the actor inside that phone booth, Collin Farrell." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
| "A modern morality tale complete with Kiefer Sutherland as God's voice. Okay, so he's a sniper on the other end of the phone, but with the things he says and the stereo sound he might as well be the Almighty." |
| Movie Views |
| Ryan Cracknell |
4/5 | "A flick that will absolutely keep your rump glued to the seat for 90-some minutes and force you from the theater discussing the fun you just had. And in my book that's always worth 8 bucks." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Scott Weinberg |
B | "Watching any guy talking on the phone for 80 minutes could have grown tiresome. Farrell keeps us enthralled and, in the process, entertained." |
| Eclipse Magazine |
| Sean O'Connell |
B- | "Generally holds together at least while you're watching it, and has a level of moral interest not common in movies of this sort." |
| Decent Films Guide |
| Steven D. Greydanus |
2.5/4 | "High-concept hokum invested equally in the Catholic and the apocalyptic." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
| "Click here to see review" |
| Wolf Entertainment Guide |
| William Wolf |
8/10 | Read review |
| Modamag.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
2.5/4 | Read review |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
7/10 | Read review |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
2/4 | Read review |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
3/4 | Read review |
| In the Dark |
| Jonathan F. Richards |
3/10 | Read review |
| www.susangranger.com |
| Susan Granger |
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OFCS Rating: 78% Fresh |
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