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Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

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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.

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Chicago, IL

Official Website:

http://goatdog.com

Reviews

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2.5/5 “The story is pretty tired, the depictions of the natives pretty xenophobic ... but it's worth watching for a few moments that transcend the film they're stuck in.” – Goatdog's Movies May 2, 2021 Full Review 4/5 “The genius of this film is that it literalizes the metaphor: these zombie soldiers aren't symbols of some larger issue, they're literally the costs of Bush's war.” – Goatdog's Movies Apr 29, 2021 Full Review Sherlock, Jr. (1924) 86% 5/5 “I need a different scale to rate this movie.” – Goatdog's Movies May 29, 2015 Full Review Salome (1922) 67% 3/5 “” – Goatdog's Movies Mar 12, 2014 Full Review One Foot in Heaven (1941) 100% 3/5 “It's worth watching for March's performance -- although we don't get to hear him preach enough -- and for his take-down of a wealthy family determined to run his church for him.” – Goatdog's Movies Feb 3, 2012 Full Review Nevada Smith (1966) 50% 2/5 “Not a worthless film, although it's impossible to take seriously.” – Goatdog's Movies Dec 30, 2011 Full Review Bridesmaids (2011) 89% 4/5 “I laughed almost without pause; at several points I made horselike snorting sounds that hurt the insides of my nose.” – Goatdog's Movies Dec 30, 2011 Full Review The Dark Knight (2008) 94% 4.5/5 “Visceral and terrifying.” – Goatdog's Movies Dec 29, 2011 Full Review Angels Crest (2011) 22% 2/5 “A high-school production of a second-rate Greek tragedian.” – Goatdog's Movies Dec 29, 2011 Full Review Contagion (2011) 85% 4/5 “A supercharged cross between an episode of CSI and a World Health Organization infographic.” – Goatdog's Movies Dec 29, 2011 Full Review Last Pullman Car (1985) 4/5 “One of Chicago documentary group Kartemquin Films's many incisive documentaries about social injustice.” – Goatdog's Movies Dec 29, 2011 Full Review The Perfect Host (2010) 44% 2.5/5 “It's a film, not a play, and it doesn't work.” – Goatdog's Movies Dec 29, 2011 Full Review Midnight in Paris (2011) 93% 3/5 “Watchable, and on a certain level, it's quite enjoyable.” – Goatdog's Movies Dec 29, 2011 Full Review Stake Land (2010) 75% 4.5/5 “May be the best blunt-force-trauma, tear-your-throat-out vicious vampire film since Near Dark.” – Goatdog's Movies Dec 15, 2011 Full Review 13 Assassins (2010) 95% 4.5/5 “Miike's sadistic fetishization of violence and suffering is nowhere in evidence.” – Goatdog's Movies Dec 15, 2011 Full Review Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) 84% 2.5/5 “If the best thing about a spy movie is the wallpaper, perhaps you've miscalculated.” – Goatdog's Movies Dec 14, 2011 Full Review The Debt (2010) 77% 2.5/5 “Wants to ask deep philosophical questions [but] the protracted ending prevents any of these philosophical darts from sticking.” – Goatdog's Movies Dec 5, 2011 Full Review Point Blank (2010) 91% 4.5/5 “Action cinema distilled.” – Goatdog's Movies Nov 20, 2011 Full Review Four Brothers (2005) 53% 2.5/5 “Feels like a nervous student's heavily footnoted thesis film.” – Goatdog's Movies Nov 20, 2011 Full Review Warrior (2011) 84% 2.5/5 “Suddenly Thunderdome doesn't seem like such a pipe dream anymore.” – Goatdog's Movies Nov 16, 2011 Full Review She Demons (1958) 2.5/5 “Seems to have been created by choosing randomly from a selection of 13-year-old boys' 'these are a few of my favorite things' lists.” – Goatdog's Movies Nov 5, 2011 Full Review Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951) 4/5 “Not a film noir, but you should still invest your time in locating and viewing it.” – Goatdog's Movies Oct 30, 2011 Full Review Maniac (1934) 89% 3/5 “A truly wretched film that I enjoyed, partly because of and partly in spite of its excessive excrescence.” – Goatdog's Movies Oct 17, 2011 Full Review Along the Great Divide (1951) 2.5/5 “Flawed by structural problems in the script but buoyed by its A-list leading cast” – Goatdog's Movies Oct 10, 2011 Full Review Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) 3.5/5 “A wonderful little film on its own, but it's also a handy little primer of early-1930s genre conventions.” – Goatdog's Movies Aug 19, 2011 Full Review
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