Phone Booth Reviews

Phone Booth Review
by Jerry Saravia (Rating: 2/4)
"Phone Booth" has a terrifically intense premise - a guy is stuck in the phone booth talking to a sniper who is ready to kill him if he leaves the booth. It is such a good premise - one not so dependent on plot than on action and behavior - that it is...more

Phone Booth Review
by Karina Montgomery (Rating: 3.5/5)
In an interview on the Daily Show, and I don't really know if he was kidding, Phone Booth star Colin Farrell said that early on, big blammo Michael Bay was attached to direct this thriller in a phone booth. Farrell claimed that Bay loved the script...more

Phone Booth Review
by Richard A. Zwelling (Rating: 3/4)
I must say that I am not the biggest Joel Schumacher fan. I have been watching films for a long time, and I have seen Schumacher turn out several unforgettable pictures (e.g. --The Client, 8MM, Bad Company). While the premise of Phone Booth intrigued...more

Phone Booth Review
by Shannon Patrick Sullivan (Rating: 3/4)
Directed by Joel Schumacher. Screenplay by Larry Cohen. Starring Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker. Running time: 80 minutes. Rated AA for offensive language by the MFCB. Reviewed on April 10th, 2003. more

Phone Booth Review
by Jonathan F. Richards (Rating: 3/4)
A half-century or so ago, when television was young and radio was in its prime, tight, well-crafted little dramas surged out of typewriters like eager young recruits, and flung themselves in waves before live network microphones and cameras. There...more

Phone Booth Review
by Dennis Schwartz (Rating: C+)
PHONE BOOTH (director: Joel Schumacher; screenwriter: Larry Cohen; cinematographer: Matthew Libatique; editor: Mark Stevens; music: Harry Gregson-Williams; cast: Colin Ferrell (Stu Shepard), Forest Whitaker (Capt. Ramey), Katie Holmes (Pamela McFadden),...more

Phone Booth Review
by Susan Granger (Rating: 3/10)
Susan Granger's review of "Phone Booth" (20th Century-Fox) If you heard a public phone ringing in a phone booth, would you answer it? I wouldn't, so this ridiculous concept lost me at the getgo. But just suppose you did - and on the other end of...more

Phone Booth Review
by Bob Bloom (Rating: 2/4)
PHONE BOOTH (2003) 2 stars out of 4. Starring Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell and Katie Holmes. Music by Harry Gregson-Williams. Written by Larry Cohen. Directed by Joel Schumacher. Rated R. Running time: Approx. 90...more

Phone Booth Review
by Jon Popick (Rating: 8/10)
There really isn't much to say about Phone Booth that isn't already obvious to anyone who has seen the film's trailer. Its very simple story places asshole Manhattan publicist Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell, Daredevil) in the eponymous phone booth for just...more

Phone Booth Review
by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: 3/4)
# stars based on 4 stars: 3 Reviewed by: Harvey Karten 20th Century Fox Directed by: Joel Schumacher Written by: Larry Cohen Cast: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell, Katie Holmes Screened at: Fox, NYC, 4/1/03 more

Phone Booth Review
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3/4)
"My two-thousand dollar watch is fake, and so am I," Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is forced to confess to all of the New York television cameras trained on the phone booth where he is holed up. Although everyone watching on their TV sets thinks that he...more