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Scott Phillips

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Biography:

Scott Phillips holds a degree in print journalism from the University of Georgia. His first film review was published in 1988. Scott has been the Executive Editor and Senior Writer for The Movie Isle since its inception in November 2017. In September 2019, Scott joined the WRBL News Team (a CBS affiliate in Georgia) and currently hosts The Screen Scene at WRBL.com.

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Oddity (2024) 96% “It scares without cheating. It’s stellar craftsmanship. Plain and simple. I’ll take Oddity over Longlegs any day of the week.” – Forbes Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Longlegs (2024) 86% “In the end, the mystery itself isn’t much of a mystery. Dust off your Scooby Doo crime-solving skills, and unmasking the person assisting Longlegs is painfully easy.” – Forbes Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Brave Citizen (2023) “Brave Citizen is my favorite film from the first week of Fantasia 2024. I went in with no real expectations, only to discover an action gem.” – Forbes Jul 29, 2024 Full Review The Dead Thing (2024) 83% “Kane has heeded his own advice and crafted a tight, tense film that also has a lot to say about our modern dating culture and how relationships have become so reliant on technology. I look forward to seeing what he does next.” – Forbes Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% “Kinds of Kindness feels like it was made by a cynical god as he watches our silly attempts to control our own lives and laughs at our foolishness. If the laughs are a litmus test for mental health, then I may be leaning a bit toward madness myself.” – Forbes Jul 4, 2024 Full Review Janet Planet (2023) 85% “(Director) Baker takes a fly-on-the-wall approach to telling her tale, and in this case, less is definitely more. She has the good sense to simply stay out of the way of the characters on the screen.” – Forbes Jul 4, 2024 Full Review MaXXXine (2024) 72% “MaXXXine is an ode to a time when horror films were more fun than sadistic. It’s the 80’s horror film you never knew you needed and certainly didn’t expect forty years later.” – Forbes Jul 4, 2024 Full Review Abigail (2024) 83% “I don’t mind that someone made an amusement park ride out of the undead. I just wish it wasn’t also brain dead.” – Forbes Apr 15, 2024 Full Review Cuckoo (2024) 79% “Cuckoo is a ride. You must be willing to give yourself over to it. If you prefer familiar plot beats and character tropes, this film will hit you in the face like a shovel.” – Forbes Apr 15, 2024 Full Review Dìdi (2024) 96% “The performances are uniformly excellent. Joan Chen will break your heart as Didi’s under-appreciated mother who puts her dreams and needs on hold to rear two children who spend most of their time arguing with her.” – Forbes Feb 28, 2024 Full Review In the Summers (2024) 93% “The screenplay by writer-director Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio is pitch perfect. ” – Forbes Feb 28, 2024 Full Review Sujo (2024) 93% “Sujo was my favorite film of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and rightly won the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. Put this one on your personal Watch List.” – Forbes Feb 28, 2024 Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% “Dune 2 is the much-anticipated pay-off, a vast improvement over the mythology-laden first film. Epic battles scenes, palace intrigue, romance and religious prophecies abound.” – Forbes Feb 28, 2024 Full Review Past Lives (2023) 95% “Past Lives is astute and sharply-observed, emotional without being sentimental. It has lived rent-free in my mind since I saw it six months ago. It’s not to be missed.” – Forbes Jan 2, 2024 Full Review The Holdovers (2023) 97% “The original screenplay from David Hemingson is smart, witty and emotionally resonant. Throw in stellar performances by Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and newcomer Dominic Sessa, and you have one of the best comedies in recent memory.” – Forbes Jan 2, 2024 Full Review How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) 95% “Pipeline is simultaneously a top-notch thriller and an examination of our modern political system where the voices of individual citizens seem to carry no weight.” – Forbes Jan 2, 2024 Full Review Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 93% “It wouldn’t be in my all-time Top 5 of Scorsese films. But that’s not the metric at work here. It’s still a brilliant movie and one of the best films of the year.” – Forbes Jan 2, 2024 Full Review The Zone of Interest (2023) 93% “t’s a chilling original look at subject matter that has already been masterfully examined in films like Shoah and Schindler’s List. Love it or hate it, you must admit that you’ve never seen anything like it.” – Forbes Jan 2, 2024 Full Review American Fiction (2023) 93% “Sterling K. Brown (This is Us) steals every scene he’s in as Monk’s wild, partying gay younger brother. He’s the very definition of a Best Supporting Actor. ” – Forbes Jan 2, 2024 Full Review Anatomy of a Fall (2023) 96% “The film is more about the secrets we keep from the ones we love than an edge-of-your-seat murder inquiry. It's less concerned about whodunit and more interested in examining how well we know the people who rest their heads on the pillows beside ours.” – Forbes Jan 2, 2024 Full Review Dream Scenario (2023) 91% “Dream Scenario has a lot to say about fame in our social media world and the dangers of having your dreams come true. ” – Forbes Jan 2, 2024 Full Review Oppenheimer (2023) 93% “If Dunkirk, [Christopher Nolan's] 2017 film about the historic World War II battle, was his bid to prove that he’s a “serious filmmaker”, then Oppenheimer proves that he should be considered one of the modern masters of cinema.” – Forbes Aug 3, 2023 Full Review Fast X (2023) 57% “the wheels on the muscle cars keep turning even if they look worse than the Chrysler LeBaron driven by John Candy and Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987). They are spectacles with no stakes, and even the spectacles are computer fakery.” – Forbes Jul 5, 2023 Full Review Sisu (2022) 94% “Where the John Wick films are elegant in their choreography and steeped in genteel concepts of violence like duels with pistols at dawn, Sisu is gritty and brutal like a rabbit punch to the kidney. ” – Forbes Jul 5, 2023 Full Review Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 96% “Thanks to Tom Cruise’s daredevil spirit and director Chris McQuarrie’s impeccable staging and filming, this seventh installment delivers everything audiences are hoping for.” – Forbes Jul 5, 2023 Full Review
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