Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
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For 87 reviews, this critic has graded:
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66% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Bill Goodykoontz's Scores
- Movies
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100
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20
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 44 out of 87
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Mixed: 38 out of 87
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Negative: 5 out of 87
87
movie reviews
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Bill Goodykoontz 100
The visuals are stunning, perhaps the most fully realized of any film. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 100
A genuine triumph, a great movie with astounding performances so natural, so genuine, that you forget it's a movie. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 90
Toy Story 3 is very much a worthy entry in the series, a movie well worth making (and seeing). It continues the legacy. It just doesn't expand upon it. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 90
A perverse delight, the rare film that makes you feel good about feeling bad (or at least watching others do so). -
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Bill Goodykoontz 90
The Secret in Their Eyes never lets you forget that you're watching a movie - and never lets you wish you were doing anything else. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 90
Please Give is an almost perfectly rendered slice of life, buoyant with wonderful performances. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
It's not a great movie so much as it is great moviemaking. It's basically a potboiler genre film, a B-movie with big talent attached. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
Carroll purists and freshman English majors may be aghast at the change in story, but for those who watched "Avatar" and marveled at the images but were left wanting by the wooden acting and tired story, "Alice" is a treat. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
This is unhinged genius, an amazing piece of acting. Brutal, yes, but magnetic all the same. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
There is a predictability to the story, but that's OK. The acting is superb, Holbrook in particular, making That Evening Sun an understated pleasure. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
If you're game, "Parnassus" is a richly rewarding experience. If not, it comes off like pretentious nonsense. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
Never miss a chance to see Helen Mirren. You certainly could do worse as far as movie advice goes. Mirren may not be the only reason to see The Last Station, about the final year of Leo Tolstoy's long, eventful life, but she's the best reason. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
It relies on a singularly brilliant performance by Colin Firth to make it one of the year's more satisfying films. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
Slow, stark and sometimes surreptitiously beautiful, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon is as cold and clinical an examination of evil as you could imagine. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
Terribly Happy must surely be the greatest Danish Western ever made. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
Polanski builds suspense slowly, exquisitely. It's not a matter of shocking the audience, although there are surprises, but of creating an ever-growing sense of dread. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
A funny, heartfelt look at families, relationships and the lies that prop them up as much as tear them down. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
It's also perfectly content to be an insanely violent, funny take on an established genre. And in that respect, Kick-Ass lives up to its name. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
Most of all, though, it's a welcome, offbeat look at a couple of originals, something that's in woefully short supply. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
What's breathtaking here is the scope of greed, corruption, arrogance and above all cynicism on display, not just regarding the system of government but the people it ostensibly serves. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
As an encore for Brand's Aldous, it's a welcome return. And for Hill, it's a chance to really shine. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 80
Although Jonah Hill has been sweetly, profanely funny in such films as "Superbad" and "Get Him to the Greek," in Cyrus he's a revelation. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 70
Daybreakers isn't a great film, but it's a good one, and in a market oddly lousy with vampire tales, it's an original. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 70
Its over-the-top violence is cartoonish at times, menacing at others - which is a good thing. And truly, if one must wander a barren, post-apocalyptic landscape with somebody, who better to wander with than Denzel Washington? -
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Bill Goodykoontz 70
Writer and director Ti West accesses all the hot buttons for fans of the genre in a manner that doesn't make fun of it (and its followers) in a "Scary Movie" way, but instead treats it with the appropriate amount of respect. (Key word: appropriate.) -
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Bill Goodykoontz 70
Both the film and television project were directed by Martin Campbell. He creates a nice level of tension throughout, and there are a couple of legitimate shocks (including one jaw-dropper). -
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Bill Goodykoontz 70
To pretend that the film doesn't make a political statement is silly. Of course it does. It wouldn't be effective at all if it didn't. -
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Bill Goodykoontz 70
It does give Cera a chance to play at being a bad boy. But it's just that - playing at it. -
