Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
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For 26 reviews, this critic has graded:
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32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.3 points higher than other critics.
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Bill Goodykoontz's Scores
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- TV
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Bill Goodykoontz 100
The new fall season's best show...Here's how good: It will make you like a Styx song. Yes. It may even make you love it. It will definitely make you hum Come Sail Away, that awful anthem from one of corporate rock's biggest hack acts. Why? Because it is the dead solid perfect choice for the first episode's closing scene, a scene so painfully perfect you'll wish you were 16 again. [25 Sept 1999, p.1D]Posted Feb 21, 2013 -
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Bill Goodykoontz 100
Lost is rip-roaring fun, an adventure that's best undertaken if you just sit back and enjoy the ride without thinking about it too much. [22 Sept 2004, p.1E]Posted Feb 26, 2013 -
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Bill Goodykoontz 90
The biggest and most pleasant surprise of the season. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 90
It's a fantastic show, neck-and-neck with Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip for best new show of the season. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 90
A wonderful, brilliantly brutal, scathing look at British politics. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
In Angel, both Angel and Cordelia are far more appealing than they were in Buffy. [5 Oct 1999, p.1D]Posted Mar 19, 2013 -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
It's seriously good, though not always serious. [3 June 2001, p.1E]Posted Apr 15, 2013 -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
Yes, it's a ridiculous notion, but it's also a lot of stylish fun. [29 Sept 2001, p.1E]Posted Mar 15, 2013 -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
These episodes aren't as slam-bang great as last season's first four. But they are scarier, more personal, making it seem as if this time we have more to lose. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
The interaction between Mal and the other characters boasts the same seamless savvy that makes Buffy and her pals so winning. [20 Sept 2002, p.1E]Posted Feb 23, 2013 -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
Sounds ho-hum, but it's really quite funny. Sheen may be playing himself, but he plays himself well, and Cryer is a gas. [22 Sept 2003, p.E1]Posted Apr 2, 2013 -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
It's easily one of the best new shows of the season. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
Elizabeth [is] portrayed by Mirren in as brilliant a performance as you're likely to see. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
So it's not the most original plot. So what? Kids are going to freak over it, and watch it again and again and again.... Tisdale is once again great as Sharpay--her performance of Fabulous is the best thing in the movie--and Lucas Grabeel gets his chance to shine as her long-suffering brother Ryan. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 70
Nothing groundbreaking here, obviously, but it's still pretty funny. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 70
There are reasons not to like Dexter, but thanks to Hall's winning portrayal and the cool, creep-out idea, it's almost impossible not to. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 60
It ain't bad. Unnecessary, maybe. Why watch the road-show version when you can rent the DVD of the original? But not bad. [20 Mar 2005, p.1E]Posted May 17, 2013 -
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Bill Goodykoontz 50
The family faces all of the usual TV problems -- girl trouble, parent trouble, popular-goon-at-school trouble, etc. -- that come with trying to fit in in a new town. And it all looks great, with the snow and mountains and whatnot. But it plays out ... calculated. [16 Sept 2002, p.1E]Posted Mar 19, 2013 -
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Bill Goodykoontz 40
But the oddest thing here is Harmon. Normally a charmer, his Gibbs is all stony glances and smarmy silences. Why waste that natural likability? [23 Sept 2003, p.1E]Posted Mar 3, 2013 -
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Bill Goodykoontz 40
The word the network would probably be happy to hear used to describe the show is "cute." And it is, a little. But a much more accurate description would be "disposable." -
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Bill Goodykoontz 40
And you thought Lost could be confusing. At least it doesn't give you a headache just thinking about it. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 40
Too often it feels like a missed opportunity, though there's always hope for improvement, more realistic in this case than most. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 10
It [is] such a cloying, annoying mess you can barely expend the effort to hate it. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 10
Oddly enough, the sex isn't what's offensive about the show. Everything else is. -
