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Phone Booth

2002

Joel Schumacher

Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes ...

6.5

47,443

Thriller. Action A phone call can change your life, but for one man it can also end it. Set entirely within and around the confines of a New York City phone booth, PHONE BOOTH follows Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell), a low-rent media consultant who is trapped after being told by a caller - a serial killer with a sniper rifle - that he'll be shot dead if he hangs up. What do you do when you hear a ringing public phone? You know it's a wrong number, but ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"'Phone Booth' is 82 New York minutes long, all of them exciting."
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[It] is bogus on every level, right down to its half-hearted trick ending"
		Alan Morrison Empire	"Riveting as a thriller, sharp and funny as a satire, this is a slice of pure entertainment. Put everything else on hold and pick up Farrell's call (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie is essentially a morality play, and it's not a surprise to learn that Larry Cohen, the writer, came up with the idea 20 years ago--when there were still phone booths and morality plays (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Todd McCarthy Variety	"A half-hour TV slot, or even a short, might have proved the best format for this simple and surprise-deficient tale (...) [It] just doesn’t have enough going for it"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It's carried off with a certain pugnacious panache over its lean 81 minutes running time, and Schumacher is lucky enough to have as his star an actor currently radioactive with celebrity status (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Edelstein Slate	"A clever thriller with a brain-dead ending."

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