Bill Goodykoontz

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Arizona Republic
For 1,987 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: 1,219 out of 1987
  2. Mixed: 713 out of 1987
  3. Negative: 55 out of 1987
1987 movie reviews
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Lincoln
    If it sounds like so much backroom politicking, it is. But it's exceptionally interesting, entertaining backroom politicking.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    The Muppets
    Clever and current without being cynical, smart without being condescending, funny without being exclusionary to grown-ups or to kids.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Maestro
    It’s exciting filmmaking, and Cooper rarely lets up.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Margin Call
    A terrific piece of entertainment. The financial lingo will please money wonks. But the film as a whole focuses more on the people and personalities who went into such a catastrophic failure.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    American Hustle
    Boasting terrific acting, a brilliant soundtrack, outrageous outfits and hair, and a kinda-sorta based-on-fact story of ambition and greed, it’s relentless, in the best possible way.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Oslo, August 31st
    Although it can be harrowing and disturbing, Joachim Trier's film -- and Lie's performance -- are so masterful that the movie seems more like a searing portrait of self-discovery and realization, with the understanding that not everything you learn about yourself will be pleasant.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Room
    Room is a terrific movie, one that has two outstanding performances, confident direction and a story line that is both harrowing and moving.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    The Holdovers
    If one definition of art is seeing what everyone else does, only in a different way, The Holdovers fits that bill. It’s a delight.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    The Card Counter
    As with First Reformed, Schrader crashes right through the boundaries separating the literal from the surreal. It is a strange journey, increasingly so, but an immensely satisfying one.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Belfast
    It’s a heartfelt salute from Branagh to his hometown, and what he loved there.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Hugo
    What Scorsese has really made is a beautifully crafted love letter to movies, the passion of his life. What sounded like an odd pairing winds up being a perfect fit.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Deaf President Now!
    With attacks on diversity and inclusion more abundant and dangerous than ever, “Deaf President Now!” is more relevant than ever.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Detroit
    Detroit, as a movie, is all over the place, yet oddly that messiness is one of its strengths. It is also appropriate. Necessary, even. It fits.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Gone Girl
    David Fincher's meticulous direction pays off in spades. From the way he expresses the book's construction — not quite he-said/she-said, but a version of that — to the way the film looks (cold and uncaring, like its characters) to his work with actors (go Tyler Perry!), Gone Girl delivers.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    BlacKkKlansman
    BlacKkKlansman is Spike Lee’s best movie in years, bringing together everything that makes him such a dynamic, exciting, urgent filmmaker – as well as some of what can drive you crazy about him, too.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Beginners
    A delightful film - gentle, playful, creative and ultimately happy - though it's a tricky journey.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    The Big Short
    The Big Short manages to entertain you while making you really, really mad.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Eighth Grade
    The transition between junior high and high school is exhilarating, traumatic, funny and horrifying, and Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade captures the whole experience perfectly.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Bellflower
    Bursts at the seams with wild creativity.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    I Am Not Your Negro
    Its importance lies in Baldwin’s insistence on exposing truths, many of them uncomfortable, many of them more urgent than ever.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    One Night in Miami
    It’s fantastic.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    The Big Sick
    It’s a terrific example of a movie that doesn’t work too hard to make you love it. It’s patient as it waits for you to come around to its considerable charms.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    The Wailing
    I love movies like The Wailing. Na Hong-jin’s film is like a genre buffet, with horror as the main course, but a hearty helping of mystery, crime drama, black comedy and family relations on the menu, as well. Don’t forget the side dishes of religion, superstition and ritual. It’s a full meal.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is not the first film about family secrets coming to light through grief, but it may be the most original.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    A Film Unfinished
    To say that the film is uncomfortable to watch is an understatement. It's searing. Yet it's also invaluable.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Don't Think Twice
    Birbiglia, whose previous feature was the well-received “Sleepwalk with Me,” has made a tiny gem, a delightful film as surprising as it is satisfying.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Steve Jobs
    What Boyle and Sorkin are after here is a portrait of Jobs, not a photograph. And they have succeeded in making one, in wildly entertaining fashion.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Skyfall
    The great success for Mendes and Craig, however, is that while Skyfall obviously has a great fondness for the past, it's not trapped there. It also anticipates Bond's future. In this immensely satisfying movie, so do we.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Black Bag
    Black Bag, Steven Soderbergh’s outstanding new film, is sleek, cool, polished, smart, smooth — if Soderbergh were a thief, he’d leave no fingerprints.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Bill Goodykoontz
    Beyond the Hills
    This is not an anti-religious polemic, though it easily could have gone that way. Instead it is a much more thoughtful film and in some ways more troubling. No one is trying to do the wrong thing here, but, as with most things in life, it becomes increasingly hard to know what the right thing might be.
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