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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    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 William Arnold
    The Shaggy Dog
    The movie is just this side of terrible. It misses all the charm and fun of the original. Allen's mugging is incorrigibly unfunny.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 William Arnold
    Stardust
    Ponderously plotted, poorly cast, visually undistinguished and devoid of any real verve or charm.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 William Arnold
    Smart People
    After its rough opening, Smart People settles down to be a funny, wryly enjoyable, effortlessly poignant parable of family life and a splendid showcase for its cast -- especially Page, who handily steals the movie and proves that her "Juno" success was no fluke.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 67 William Arnold
    Shaft
    Essentially works, even though the script is a mess and John Singleton's direction is often clumsy and heavy-handed to an annoying degree.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 William Arnold
    North
    Surprisingly, "North" fails most miserably on the level of children's parable. It has no solid emotional core to which an audience can relate: It doesn't touch the heart or come close to communicating a moral. It's just silly and trite and a colossal waste of time. [22 Jul 1994]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 William Arnold
    A State of Mind
    Subtly suggests it may not be all that much different from the delusions by which other cultures are structured.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 58 William Arnold
    Waist Deep
    By most of the ways movies are usually judged, pretty much of a mess. The camerawork is jerky and distracting, the dialogue is cliched and the story makes so little sense that the script seems to have been improvised by the actors as they went along.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 William Arnold
    Amélie
    The movie is never mechanical or emotionally contrived, and at its heart is a guileless, enchanting performance by Tautou.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 42 William Arnold
    Training Day
    The masochistic brutality it's selling still seems glaringly out of step with the current mood of the country.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 William Arnold
    JFK
    It is preachy, didactic and heavy-handed as only an Oliver Stone movie can be. And yet ... and yet... despite all this, the film has an undeniable cumulative power. [20 Dec 1991]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 William Arnold
    City Hall
    Ultimately, City Hall is more evidence for the contention that the best movies these days are made from novels in which the basic story has been well worked out by non-Hollywood personnel. The gaggle of high-priced writers who toiled on this script seem to have four different ideas of where they were going, and even what their movie is about. [16 Feb 1996]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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