William Arnold

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
For 1,340 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

William Arnold's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Where the Day Takes You
Lowest review score: 0 The Musketeer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 866 out of 1340
  2. Mixed: 356 out of 1340
  3. Negative: 118 out of 1340
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Sound and Fury
    Both intellectually absorbing and emotionally gripping.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
    This free-flowing film certainly hits the high points as it flips around its talking-head celebrity sound bites at warp speed.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    World Trade Center
    The lack of stellar performances gradually becomes a virtue of the movie as we forget we're watching actors in roles, and Stone builds a documentarylike veracity that gives the saga of the trapped cops and their loved ones a riveting immediacy.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Blood Work
    It lets down in the last act and is probably too mired in serial-murderer-movie formulaics to garner Oscar attention. But it's his tightest, best film since "Unforgiven."
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    The Last King of Scotland
    The movie is an extraordinary personal adventure that views everything through the eyes of its hero as it carries him from one apocalyptic situation to another.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    We Own the Night
    At its core, it's an exploration of the demands and obligations of brotherly love, staged with honesty, originality and a surprising spark of intelligence.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Die Another Day
    All told, this first Bond of the new millennium may be far from the best of the series, but it's assured, wonderfully respectful of its past and thrilling enough to make it abundantly clear that this movie phenomenon has once again reinvented itself for a new generation, and is very likely to outlive us all.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Hoffa
    The film tells the story of Jimmy Hoffa in a refreshingly honest way. [25 Dec 1992]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Something to Talk About
    Like all of Hallstrom's American films, "Something to Talk About" has a distinct European "feel," and is less interested in being a star vehicle for Roberts than a freewheeling ensemble piece that balances her in every scene with strong supporting work from Quaid, Duvall, Rowlands and especially Sedgwick.
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    • 68 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Limbo
    A moody adventure story set in Alaska that resonates with envrionmental overtones and is filled with delicate character studies, but ends up being a terrific little genre thriller. [04 Jun 1999]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Hollywoodland
    It packs surprising punch as a biopic.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Charlie Wilson's War
    A witty, literate, wryly sophisticated parable of American politics: just the kind of movie that Hollywood, in its search for the global audience, supposedly doesn't make anymore.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    The Hoax
    Assuming the bulk of what we see is factual, it comes off as a gripping docudrama.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Arctic Tale
    Positioned to be the environmental documentary of the year.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    The Triplets of Belleville
    Most of the magic of this unusual movie comes from the freshness, imagination and sweet spirit of its animation, which is blissfully its own thing and does not show the influence of any of the reigning forces in the art form.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    The Happening
    An unapologetic B-movie.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Avenue Montaigne
    A thoroughly enjoyably and wistfully charming ensemble drama carried off with an irresistible Gallic flair.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Nixon
    Anthony Hopkins is a great actor and he gives a resourceful, inventive, compelling performance that holds our attention over three hours. It never convinces us that he is Nixon: he doesn't look much like him, and he misses entirely that incredible shiftiness in his public manner. But it somehow works. [20 Dec 1995, p.C1]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Walk the Line
    The movie is entertaining, reasonably true to the facts of its subject's life and full of music.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Seven Pounds
    A movie that plays better if you know nothing about it going in.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Sunrise at Campobello
    The best of several films about the Roosevelts, this adaptation of Dore Schary's Tony-winning Broadway play - which deals mostly with FDR's battle with polio and the difficult years that formed his presidential character - earned Greer Garson a best-actress nomination as Eleanor. [16 Nov 1995]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    • 27 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    The Majestic
    Marks a surprising maturity, restraint and confidence to Carrey's acting. Even more than "The Truman Show," he plays it perfectly straight here, and his natural charisma carries the movie with just the right dose of Jimmy Stewart charm.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Much Ado About Nothing
    In the end, we feel just what Branagh wants us to feel - a sense that, behind all its frustrations, there is a joy in this unavoidable battle-between-the-sexes that makes life worth living. So his film has it both ways: It is true to Shakespeare and his poetry, and it makes an almost perfect '90s date comedy. [21 May 1993]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    The Low Down
    Covers this exact same territory, but does it with such refreshing, clearheaded honesty and skill it seems like a revelation.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 William Arnold
    Ocean's Eleven
    If the new Ocean's Eleven is mostly Clooney's show, he's more than up to the task of carrying it. Indeed, this could be his career-defining role: The twinkle in his eye has never seemed more disreputable, his devil-may-care charm has never seemed so appealing, and he dominates the movie with the graceful ease of a Golden Age Hollywood star.
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