Phone Booth is thrilling on many counts...

| Apr 4, 2018

This movie doesn't make sense on any level.

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

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

Raises more questions than it answers as it attempts to convince us that a moralistic sniper would torture a sleazy publicist into tears of guilt and remorse over what amounts to a few paltry, venial sins.

| May 16, 2003

If this sounds like a Kafkaesque spoof thrown together for the annual Publicists Guild of America luncheon, Larry Cohen's script is only occasionally that clever.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 22, 2003

The premise is admittedly a killer -- fun to think about, fun to see realized, not so fun to see screwed up in the last half-hour.

| Apr 22, 2003

It's amazing how Phone Booth hits its dramatic peak at the end of the first act and then descends into standard thrillerisms.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 20, 2003

Phone Booth gets under your skin, despite the overload of tricks, twists, technical gimmicks and last-minute surprise that Schumacher employs to quicken the adrenaline and boost the running time.

| Apr 19, 2003

A first-tier thriller, Phone Booth will make you think twice before you ever enter a public phone facility again, but while it curls your hair, it makes you think.

| Apr 15, 2003

It's a movie perfectly designed for tossing back popcorn.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2003

[A] taut thriller that hooked me from the outset.

Full Review | Apr 7, 2003

A superficially gritty yet soullessly slick melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 4, 2003

Anyone inclined to argue with the logic of the story -- and there's certainly much to argue about -- is advised to just sit back and watch how Farrell's Stu unravels before our eyes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2003

It's cinematic flash, tarted up with gritty gray-blue lighting and gimmicky photography.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2003

A movie that combines a seriousness of purpose with an impish delight in craft, in a way Hitchcock would have appreciated.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2003

Nothing about Stu, in the end, is really important enough to justify the Sturm und Drang of Phone Booth or its tempest in a telecommunications teapot.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2003

This is a slight story enlivened by good acting, crisp pacing and some graceful comic touches.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Apr 4, 2003

The reason it works is simple: Farrell.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 4, 2003

Short, suspenseful, funny, and profane.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2003

What keeps Phone Booth going, despite its premise, is the acting and the writing, both of which are top-notch.

Full Review | Apr 4, 2003