Phillip John Bartell (born February 18, 1970) is an American film editor, screenwriter, producer and director.
[1] Bartell has received critical praise for his work as editor of Dear White People (which Variety described as "precisely edited")[2] as well as The Vanished Elephant and Miss You Already.
Discussing The Vanished Elephant in Filmmaker Magazine, Jim Hemphill said, "That film, a Lynchian puzzle that leads the viewer through a complex labyrinth of disparate levels of reality, represented one kind of challenge for an editor, one that Bartell rose to and conquered with stunning proficiency."
In the Chicago Reader, Andrea Gronvall found it "funnier, lighter, and faster paced" than the 2004 original (directed by Bartell's co-writer Q. Allan Brocka).
[4] However in the Boston Globe, Wesley Morris found "no ostensible difference between them", saying, "This sequel, with the return of the first movie's insatiably slutty Los Angeles collegians, is as vulgar as its predecessor and just as almost-smart.