Phone Booth carries over this remnant of 2000s morale with a sadistic twist, but that's not what defines it. Instead, the film is a rollicking ride that appeals to both cinephiles and entertainment-seeking viewers alike.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Oct 29, 2023

Phone Booth is proof that great movies needn't numb the posterior – and action films can make you think.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 5, 2023

File the following under Things I Never Dreamed I’d Say: I had a fine time with this movie directed by Joel Schumacher.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 19, 2022

A movie that, among other virtues, boasts a brilliant use of tension and that manages to catch your interest at all times. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 15, 2020

Recalling some of the great Alfred Hitchcock films, Phone Booth takes a simple premise and grabs the audience by the throat.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 15, 2019

Phone Booth is thrilling on many counts...

| Apr 4, 2018

The script reads like it was phoned in. Why doesn't Farrell use his cell phone? We're offered a lame excuse.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 3, 2018

One of the few artistically decent and commercially viable films Joel Schumacher has made over the past decade.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 15, 2012

This movie doesn't make sense on any level.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 27, 2010

The next time I hear a payphone ringing, I definitely won't pick it up.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 10, 2009

Gives a fond remembrance of the days when a thriller actually used its title "Thrill"...

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 27, 2007

And here it is, ladies and gentleman, an entire 90-minute movie primarily set inside the cramped confines of a phone booth.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 5, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2005

Phone Booth est un excellent suspense, mais aussi un drame psychologique qui s'aura vous divertir.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Feb 25, 2005

... a solid 90 minutes of well-intentioned entertainment, but it will do more to fuel urban paranoia than it will to make anybody re-examine their lives.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 15, 2005

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 7, 2004

Way beyond plausible, but mercifully short.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 6, 2004

As pure entertainment, Phone Booth succeeds as well as any movie released in the past few years.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 6, 2004