Bill Goodykoontz

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Arizona Republic
For 1,991 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Bill Goodykoontz's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Inside Out
Lowest review score: 20 Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,223 out of 1991
  2. Mixed: 713 out of 1991
  3. Negative: 55 out of 1991
1991 movie reviews
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Goodykoontz
    Supergirl
    Alcock is outstanding in portraying all of this — the nihilistic party girl with a tortured past, the tough-love mentor, the confused cousin of the Man of Steel. But the direction is messy, and the fight scenes, of which there are plenty, are shot way too dark, making it hard to know what’s going on, and hindered by remarkably poor computer graphics. A couple of scenes in particular look like they aren’t quite done yet. It all adds up to a promising portrayal diluted by sloppy storytelling.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Bill Goodykoontz
    Toy Story 5
    The new film...tackles the perils of technology, and while it has its moments, introduces a great new character, consistently scores with throwaway jokes and asides and finally centers a female character, it’s just not as good as the “Toy Story” movies that came before it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Bill Goodykoontz
    Pressure
    This is going to be the favorite movie of weather forecasters everywhere. As well it might. For a movie about the weather, it’s pretty exciting. And the cast, which includes Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon and Andrew Scott, is excellent.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Bill Goodykoontz
    Backrooms
    If you are the sort of movie fan who appreciates a director who doesn’t tie everything up in neat little bows, you’ll love this. It’s at times confusing, at times frustrating. But it feels as if Parsons maintains control over every frame of the film. He knows where he wants to go, even if at times, like in the Backrooms, it’s sometimes hard to follow.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Bill Goodykoontz
    The Sheep Detectives
    In an algorithm-driven world in which every decision is made based on numbers, prediction markets or a desperate attempt to be all things to all people (especially the people not buying your product), hooray for this weird little movie that refuses to play that game. If it can’t always figure out quite what it wants to be, it’s all the better for it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Bill Goodykoontz
    The Devil Wears Prada 2
    It's all too much on the surface, not enough underneath. In other words, fans of the first film will love it.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Goodykoontz
    Michael
    More curiosity than movie, “Michael,” a biopic so reverential towards its subject, Michael Jackson, that it borders on worshipful, can’t seem to figure out what it is.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Bill Goodykoontz
    Normal
    When it comes to dumb fun, generally speaking you want a pretty good balance between the two elements. “Normal” ignores this notion, gleefully so.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Bill Goodykoontz
    Project Hail Mary
    When you can sell a movie in which you spend a large chunk of time talking to a rock and still manage to be magnetic, you're doing something right. And in "Project Hail Mary," Gosling definitely is.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Bill Goodykoontz
    undertone
    It’s creepy as all get out and features a great performance from Nina Kiri, on-screen alone for most of the film, as a podcast host who has moved back to her childhood home to take care of her dying mother (Michèle Duquet). Things get weird.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Goodykoontz
    The Bride!
    I admire what Gyllenhaal attempts in The Bride! I was less satisfied with the execution.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    The President's Cake
    What’s most remarkable about the film, which was shot in Iraq, are the performances. The cast members are not actors. They’re non-professionals, at least, acting for the first time. Yet their performances feel so genuine, so lived-in.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Bill Goodykoontz
    How to Make a Killing
    In the end, How to Make a Killing is fine, fun, a nice diversion starring, if no longer the flavor of the month, then a good actor elevating the material around him.
    • 5 Metascore
    • 20 Bill Goodykoontz
    Melania
    All I can say is, no matter who made it, no matter who paid for it, no matter who it's about, "Melania" is a singularly bad movie.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Bill Goodykoontz
    The Testament of Ann Lee
    The Testament of Ann Lee is a biographical film about a real person, though one about whom a great number of details aren’t known. It runs up against some rough patches during the telling of the story, but overall it is immensely enjoyable, an unflinching (and nonjudgmental) look at faith, no matter how bizarrely we may think it’s practiced.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Bill Goodykoontz
    Dead Man's Wire
    Skarsgård makes the character a little sad, a lot delusional but never a joke. And he makes “Dead Man’s Wire” an underrated gem not to sleep on.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Bill Goodykoontz
    Marty Supreme
    Marty Supreme is breakneck, it’s nerve wracking and it is above all entertaining as all get out. It makes you eager to see what Chalamet’s going to do next.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Goodykoontz
    Avatar: Fire and Ash
    Avatar: Fire and Ash will doubtless join its predecessors in the billion-dollar club. It can't miss. It follows the formula of the previous two films — stunning advancements in film technology coupled with mind-numbing plot, evidently a lucrative combo. Don't get me wrong, these movies look great, genuinely so. They're just so dumb.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
    It’s fun, it’s smart and yes, it actually does have something to say. Delivered in this way, I think people are more inclined to listen.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Bill Goodykoontz
    Hamnet
    It is devastating and magnetic and most of all brilliant. Don’t miss it.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Bill Goodykoontz
    Wicked: For Good
    Grande and Erivo bring that relationship to life, making “Wicked: For Good” more emotional than you’d expect. These are two really good actors whose investments in what could have been let’s-put-on-a-show theater-kid performances go much deeper.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Bill Goodykoontz
    Die My Love
    Lawrence takes up that challenge and then some, with a performance that could have been rendered in broad strokes, and sometimes is, but also relies on small moments, a look in her eyes, a quick movement, to draw us in and keep us there.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Bill Goodykoontz
    Bugonia
    Every image feels intentional, with nothing left to chance. (This results in some amazing images, many of them involving Stone’s face.) Along with the precision of the performances, this makes Bugonia one of the more enjoyably weird times at the movies in recent memory.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    A House of Dynamite
    Bigelow brilliantly builds tension, to the extent that the third version we see is every bit as nerve-wracking as the first if not more so. This is nail-biting stuff, agonizing to sit through.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Bill Goodykoontz
    One Battle After Another
    The whole movie is amazing.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Goodykoontz
    Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
    It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever, a couple of not-so-wise men said a long time ago — and in a better movie.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Weapons
    My interpretation is that it’s a scary, funny film with a lot beneath the surface. And it’s certainly preferable to watching the news.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Bill Goodykoontz
    Caught Stealing
    Butler keeps you hooked and keeps you hoping. It’s a really good performance in a good movie, and proof of Aronofsky’s versatility. There’s some virtuosity in there somewhere, too.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Bill Goodykoontz
    KPop Demon Hunters
    It isn’t the kind of movie where you nitpick the details. It’s the kind of movie where you float along from one scene to the next, buoyed by catchy hits like “Golden” and “Soda Pop.” They don’t just serve the story, but drive it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Bill Goodykoontz
    Together
    This is a crazy movie, in the best possible way. Body horror films have to be willing to get nuts to really work ― “The Substance” knew this, for instance. And Franco and Brie, along with Shanks, fully commit to this.
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