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Phil

2019

Greg Kinnear, Emily Mortimer, Jay Duplass, Robert Forster ...

Comedy. Drama A depressed dentist in mid life crisis tries to learn why one of his happiest patients suddenly commits suicide, and a dark comedic adventure ensues.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A movie as trifling as it gets (...) [Phil] is too innocuous a presence to draw the audience to him"	NEG
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Thoroughly unconvincing (...) The kind of bad movie that makes you wonder, 'How did so many good actors decide to take this job?'"	NEG
United States	John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"[An] alternatingly poignant and inane film a (...) 'Phil' isn’t a home run, exactly. But you could rule it a double to left."	NEU
United States	Kimber Myers Los Angeles Times	"The script from Stephen Mazur drags everyone down with its clumsy attempts at both humor and profundity in this pseudo-philosophical pseudo-comedy."	NEG
United States	Chad Byrnes LA Weekly	"Although 'Phil' has moments as derivative as a Lifetime Christmas movie, I respect its unabashed spirit (...) These scenarios are funny, other times just eye-rolling"	NEU

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