Phil Hoad
Critic Overview in Movies
61Avg. Critic Score
Critic Score Distribution
positive
49(29%)
mixed
118(70%)
negative
2(1%)
Highest Critic Score
100
Lowest Critic Score
Critic Reviews for Movies
Jun 15, 2026
Angel's Egg (1985)80
Jun 15, 2026
This unsettling parable has a scriptural concision and mystery.
May 12, 2026
Nobu60
May 12, 2026
This docu-portrait verges on corporate promo at times, though there are a couple of telling vignettes in the second half.
May 8, 2026
Wardriver60
May 8, 2026
Where it’s lacking in psychological bite, Wardriver’s demi-monde is convincingly venal in general terms. Thomas lends it enough fast-driving attack and romanticised ferment that it might just pass in the darkness for a Michael Mann film.
May 7, 2026
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea60
May 7, 2026
This hectic fantasia struggles to plumb deeper depths.
Apr 27, 2026
Ultras80
Apr 27, 2026
Here is a visually epic and surprisingly positive documentary about a maligned subculture: football ultras.
Apr 27, 2026
Brute 197640
Apr 27, 2026
Amid this farrago, the political critique comes over more like accidental backspatter than meaningful statement.
Apr 20, 2026
Broken Bird80
Apr 20, 2026
With an unerring but sardonic sense of how death presses in on us all, this is a promisingly pungent debut from Mitchell.
Apr 17, 2026
The Plague80
Apr 17, 2026
This is a memorable education in the laws of the tween jungle.
Apr 16, 2026
Endless Cookie80
Apr 16, 2026
There are serious points raised with wry obliqueness here: about police racism, land theft and, more positively, ancestral continuity. (Perhaps to keep the indigenous focus, Endless Cookie skirts the issue of Seth as a white chronicler.) But it’s also equal parts hallucinations in coffee froth of rutting caribous – and a palpably radiating love for community – in this often hilarious spawn of the likes of Fritz the Cat
Mar 9, 2026
Scarlet40
Mar 9, 2026
Visually ravishing though it is, Scarlet is a hefty disappointment from director Mamoru Hosoda, a leading light from whom we expect more than an incoherent and overbearing fantasy.