ROTTEN TOMATOES: Phil Villarreal

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PHIL VILLARREAL

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Biography: Phil Villarreal blogs about movies at becauseitoldyouso.com. His book Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel is due out Sept. 1.

Favorites: Waking Life, Swingers, Clerks, Reservoir Dogs, Rocky, True Romance

Publications: Arizona Daily Star, OK! Magazine

Critics' Group: Phoenix Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 1636
Total QuickRatings: 88

Location: Tucson

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Rotten 2/4	Fresh 78%	Invictus (2009)	" Without looking it up, I'm guessing the title is Latin for drudgery." — OK! Magazine Posted Dec 11, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 90%	Up in the Air (2009)	" The film catches a jet stream of thought-provoking whimsy and barrels through fatalist turbulence before landing in a rich catharsis." — OK! Magazine Posted Dec 4, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 92%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" Fantastic may be a little overboard when it comes to descriptors for Mr. Fox, but entrancing is about right." — OK! Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 23%	Planet 51 (2009)	" Doesn't belong anywhere near the best animated picture race, but you can do a lot worse when looking for a family flick to pass the time." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Nov 21, 2009
Fresh 2/4	Rotten 39%	2012 (2009)	" 2012 is no disaster movie, it's a high-rent remake of The Parent Trap." — OK! Magazine Posted Nov 13, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 54%	The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)	" Peter Straughan's peppy, Star Wars-reference laden script matches Clooney's star power, but the plot goes a bit too far off the rails at the end." — OK! Magazine Posted Nov 6, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 80%	Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)	" The movie entertains and sometimes awes, just like its subject." — OK! Magazine Posted Oct 28, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 21%	Amelia (2009)	" Earhart must have been more interesting than the film makes her out to be, and more magnetic than the airhead as Swank interprets her." — OK! Magazine Posted Oct 23, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 73%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" More effective birth control than condoms." — OK! Magazine Posted Oct 16, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 82%	Whip It (2009)	" There's an extended sequence of underwater kissing that makes it seem that both Page and Pigg are mer-people. Seriously, they never come up for air as they make out in about 15 different positions. It's only the audience that's drowning." — OK! Magazine Posted Oct 1, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Rotten 44%	Jennifer's Body (2009)	" This movie thrives on its intended level of Scream-style horror comedy, blazes through its running time and had me laughing throughout." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Sep 18, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" By far the best World War II film I've ever seen." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Aug 22, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 91%	Ponyo (2009)	" His twisted version of Finding Nemo meets Splash, the movie won't go down as one of his best, but it's still better than 90 percent of animation out there." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Aug 15, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 86%	500 Days of Summer (2009)	" It's a movie that makes me wish I were still a film critic so I could beg tens of thousands of readers to see it rather just the few who will read this post." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Aug 2, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 36%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" Heavier on demons than angels." — Arizona Daily Star Posted May 14, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 98%	Up (2009)	" A Pixar pinnacle. That may seem like outlandish praise, given the animation studio's sterling tax record. But when was the last time you walked out of a Pixar movie simply giddy, as if you were high on computer-animated pixels?" — Arizona Daily Star Posted May 13, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 73%	Rudo and Cursi (2009)	" The actors' chemistry lifts what might have been an average sports melodrama to something near special." — Arizona Daily Star Posted May 10, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 38%	Gigantic (2008)	" Happy would be sad if you didn't want to see her story. And you wouldn't like a Manic Pixie Dream Girl when she's angry." — Arizona Daily Star Posted May 9, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" For the first time in 15 years, Star Trek actually matters." — Arizona Daily Star Posted May 6, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 32%	Fanboys (2009)	" What if the movie sucks?" — Arizona Daily Star Posted Apr 29, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 36%	X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)	" Whoever pirated X-Men Origins: Wolverine got a punishment that fit the crime." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Apr 29, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 14%	The Informers (2009)	" An aimless mess. But at least the mess is sexy and exciting." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Apr 24, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 88%	Sin Nombre (2009)	" Imagine City of God without the zippy camerawork or Slumdog Millionaire without the millionaire and you get the feel of Sin Nombre." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Apr 23, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 55%	The Soloist (2009)	" A duet, with two master performers collaborating in absorbing harmony." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Apr 22, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 79%	12 (2007)	" Mikhalkov is probably a little too successful at re-creating the feeling of being trapped at a seemingly never-ending meeting." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Apr 15, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 58%	17 Again (2009)	" Turns out there's more to Zac Efron than the grinning, vacant marionette from the High School Musical series." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Apr 15, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 90%	The Black Balloon (2008)	" The outlines are broad and obvious, and Thomas such a bore, that The Black Balloon loses air." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Apr 8, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 50%	Observe and Report (2009)	" If you would have told me that Kevin James and Seth Rogen would basically make the same movie and both would have come out the same, I wouldn't have believed you." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Apr 8, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 72%	The Great Buck Howard (2009)	" Malkovich expertly starts the relationship between his character and the audience on several wrong feet before winning us over." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Apr 1, 2009
N/A	Fresh 88%	Adventureland (2009)	" Failure shaped Mottola's outlook" — Arizona Daily Star INTERVIEW Posted Apr 1, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 88%	Adventureland (2009)	" The thunder that follows the Superbad lightning." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Apr 1, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 83%	Two Lovers (2009)	" If this is it for Joaquin Phoenix's film career, at least he's going out the right way." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Mar 25, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 72%	Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)	" I liked it more than anything Pixar has made the last five years." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Mar 25, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 82%	I Love You, Man (2009)	" I sort of like you, man.." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Mar 18, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	N/A	Beisbol: The Latin Game (2007)	" A spirited, enchanting baseball doc." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Mar 16, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 4%	Miss March (2009)	" They've got enough solid material for a half-hour sitcom, including two great, oh-so-politically incorrect lines worthy of integrating into the annals of pop culture, but that does not a feature film make." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Mar 13, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 97%	The Class (2008)	" The hard-hitting film makes most other school-based films resemble child's play, as careers and futures of both the teacher and student hang in the balance, in the uncaring hands of an indifferent system." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Mar 12, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 84%	Wendy and Lucy (2008)	" Here's one movie that will make you want to go home and hug your dog." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Mar 5, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 64%	Watchmen (2009)	" Tends to play like the SportsCenter version of the big game. It's got all the highlights but little of the tension and atmosphere that give those moments impact." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Mar 4, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 62%	Che (2008)	" It's a fight with your bladder and attention span worth waging." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Feb 25, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 68%	Were the World Mine (2008)	" All teen comedies would be this divine were the world Gustafson's." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Feb 13, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 13%	The Pink Panther 2 (2009)	" I laughed once, at an unexpected gag, involving a ricocheting bullet, that was a nice play on an old gunfighting cliche. The rest of the film was a slow-bleeding gut shot." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Feb 6, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 89%	Coraline (2009)	" The 3-D in Coraline is so low-key that I forgot it was there for much of the film. But maybe that's less a knock on the visuals than it is a compliment to the movie's ability to pull me into its zany world." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Feb 4, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 85%	Azur and Asmar - The Princes' Quest (2006)	" The film is full of out-there artistic decisions that don't quite pay off, it makes you feel like you're taking medicine without a spoonful of sugar." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Jan 28, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 70%	The Midnight Meat Train (2008)	" Goes full speed on ultra-gory rails before slamming to an abrupt stop." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Jan 28, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 18%	New in Town (2009)	" It's a given dis one is more fer da ladies than da fellas, and some of da dialogue is pretnear hard da swallow." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Jan 28, 2009
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 98%	The Wrestler (2008)	" It was almost worth the malaise of watching Mickey Rourke squander years of potential just so he could make his grand comeback." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Jan 22, 2009
N/A	Rotten 55%	Yonkers Joe (2008)	" Return of the Othicks" — Arizona Daily Star INTERVIEW Posted Jan 22, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Rotten 55%	Yonkers Joe (2008)	" The typecast actor breaks out of his comfort zone." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Jan 21, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 34%	Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)	" Producer Adam Sandler must have though so little of the film that he didn't even see it fit for a Rob Schneider cameo." — Arizona Daily Star Posted Jan 16, 2009

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