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WILLIAM ARNOLD
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• Deseret News, Salt Lake City
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A After The Wedding
A- Amazing Grace
B+ Music and Lyrics
B Breach
B- Breaking and Entering
C+ Black Snake Moan
C Gray Matters
C- Factory Girl
D Because I Said So
D- Good Luck Chuck
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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a U2 3D
a There Will Be Blood
A War and Peace
A Into the Wild
A Le Doulos
A After The Wedding
A The Queen
A This Film is Not Yet Rated
A Army of Shadows
A Cars
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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F The Oh in Ohio
F Domino
F Sin City
F Me, Myself & Irene
F The Musketeer
F Whipped
D- Funny Games
D- Good Luck Chuck
D- Deck the Halls
D- Envy
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

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"Love it or hate it, no one's cinematic education is complete without having taken this baffling, haunting, uniquely challenging movie ride." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)93%
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C
 
"The Last Mistress is grindingly predictable, its view of sex as hand-to-hand combat (the lovers here assault each other like Sumo wrestlers) is often unintentionally funny and the casting is all wrong." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
The Last Mistress (2008)77%
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B
 
"British director Phyllida Lloyd does a more than competent job of opening up the play with glorious and impossibly blue Aegean seascapes and rousing montages in bucolic settings in which the peasantry punctuate the songs like a drunken Greek chorus." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
Mamma Mia! (2008)53%
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B-
 
"It's harmless fun, and it makes for an often impressive display of the latest generation of computer-wizardry." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)60%
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C
 
"As in too many of his recent films, he comes off as a pampered superstar going through the paces of an unending ego trip." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Meet Dave (2008)20%
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B
 
"Eschewing the jerky-camera movements that have dominated this genre recently, Del Toro's action sequences are precisely choreographed and executed with an exhilarating momentum and flair." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)87%
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B+
 
"Ultimately, Podeswa fashions this collection of familiar characters and overworked themes into something unique: a wistful parable about the destructive hold the past has on all of our lives and the absolute necessity of breaking it." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 26, 2008
 
Fugitive Pieces (2008)69%
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B+
 
"History's greatest subjugator finally gets the respect he deserves with a no-nonsense drama and an all-Asian cast, shot in the very lands he once ravaged." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 
Mongol (2008)88%
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B
 
"An eerie, unsettling, uniquely creepy experience." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 
Savage Grace (2008)42%
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B-
 
"An interesting and eye-opening journey." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)96%
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B-
 
"An adequate summer effects-o-rama." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 13, 2008
 
The Incredible Hulk (2008)67%
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B+
 
"In a Hollywood summer otherwise dominated by comic-book superheroes, blazing action spectacles, snickering teen sex comedies and computer-generated fantasy, M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening is something different -- and a pleasant surprise." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 13, 2008
 
The Happening (2008)19%
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B+
 
"The movie is full of exaggerated chop-socky action sequences, and most of them are clever and entertaining. The animators clearly have invested some time in studying and gleaning ideas from the Hong Kong kung-fu classics." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 6, 2008
 
Kung Fu Panda (2008)88%
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D
 
"Is Hollywood so disconnected from its past and bankrupt of ideas that it doesn't even know this movie is a screaming cliché?" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted May 29, 2008
 
The Strangers (2008)41%
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A-
 
"It's crammed full of the dash, filmmaking flair, swashbuckling magic, impossible stunts and tongue-in-cheek humor that made the series such a phenomenon of its time." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted May 21, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)76%
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B-
 
"Compellingly paced, grandly acted, glossily photographed and often as entertaining as some guilty-pleasure Lana Turner melodrama of the '50s." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted May 15, 2008
 
Roman de Gare (2008)87%
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A-
 
"The tongue-in-cheek humor, which relentlessly lampoons action-movie conventions and the die-hard European colonial mentality, is consistently clever and witty, and the movie is a scream." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted May 8, 2008
 
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008)77%
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B-
 
"As a summer thrill machine, Speed Racer is far from supercharged." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)36%
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C-
 
"If Grey's Anatomy heartthrob Patrick Dempsey is to ever fulfill his long-standing ambition of becoming an A-list Hollywood movie star, he's going to have to make much better choices of material than the annoying romantic comedy, Made of Honor." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Made of Honor (2008)12%
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A-
 
"Is it possible to have yet another expensive excursion into this genre that seems in any way fresh, original and alive? The answer, surprisingly, is yes." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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B
 
"It sure inspired me to make plans for Emerald Downs." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
The First Saturday in May (2008)72%
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C-
 
"Cho and Penn don't have the needed personality or comic identity to sustain a franchise and their non-drug humor is so crude and scatological that -- to say the least -- it leaves a very bad taste in the mouth." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)54%
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C-
 
"A bore." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Deception (2008)11%
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B-
 
"Spurlock is good company: a more likable, less abrasive, less manipulative Michael Moore." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 21, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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B
 
"It's Tautou's showcase and if her endlessly calculating Irene displays little of the childlike innocence Hepburn gave the role, she brings her own magic to the table. Every move she makes is endearing and she's never looked more stylishly beautiful." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Priceless (2008)83%
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A-
 
"In The Visitor, Jenkins finally gets a starring role, and he makes the most of the opportunity with a brilliantly sustained performance that gives depth, resonance and spiritual transcendence to what starts out to be one of his stock characters." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)92%
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D
 
"At 68, Pacino still has the chops to give a scene a moment of raw power. But it's clear he could care less about this story, his performance has no conviction, and he's mostly emitting sparks of self-parody." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)6%
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B
 
"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." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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C+
 
"The Keanu Reeves cop movie Street Kings is a viscerally compelling but thematically confused mess of an action noir that plumbs new depths of cynicism about contemporary American life in general and the Los Angeles Police Department in particular." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)36%
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B
 
"It would be easy to categorize the Lebanese women's picture Caramel as a Levantine combination of Sex in the City and Beauty Shop, but it's actually a lot smarter, sharper and deeper than that. " -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Caramel (2008)91%
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C
 
"Such an air of dumbness hovers over the movie, and it's all played so broadly that nothing about it is remotely believable." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Nim's Island (2008)49%
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A-
 
"The movie is an exhilarating musical experience, an extraordinary testament to the unprecedented longevity and steady artistic growth of the band." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Shine a Light (2008)86%
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B-
 
"Most of the gags work, but the shtick is overdone and Clooney finally runs out of charming reactions to the world's abuse." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)53%
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B-
 
"While there are good things about it, Stop-Loss is nothing spectacular." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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D-
 
"One thing you can say about Michael Haneke's unbelievably brutal thriller, Funny Games, is that it's an experience: an unpleasant, unsettling, cruelly manipulative and finally hateful experience, but an experience nonetheless." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
Funny Games (2008)50%
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B-
 
"The Depression-era Cinderella comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is sporadically enjoyable and always gorgeous to behold." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)78%
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b
 
"Austrian director-writer Stefan Ruzowitzky does an extraordinary job of setting up this central moral dilemma: of making the situation both credible and not nearly as ethically cut and dry as it might sound." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)95%
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C
 
"This movie is an imaginative idea that, in execution, just doesn't come off." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Military Intelligence and You! (2008)35%
/
B+
 
"Not much of a visual epic maybe, but an absorbing, exciting costume drama that works as a historical romance, a family tragedy and a showcase for its young stars." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)42%
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D
 
"Thankfully, the film is rated R, which should theoretically bar it from most of its intended high school audience." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Charlie Bartlett (2007)54%
/
C
 
"The proceedings soon deteriorate into one more tedious slugfest, with some laughably inane dialogue and so many story holes that you quickly lose count." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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C
 
"The script is fatally stupid, most of the gags fall flat, the secondary characters add little, Hudson fails to make anything interesting out of the exasperated heroine, and the endless references to McConaughey's sexual prowess finally become revolting." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)10%
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B
 
"A perfectly titled and thoroughly engaging -- if at times gleefully violent -- black comedy." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)80%
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B-
 
"It makes its points and is more cultural evidence of just how harshly history is likely to judge our ill-fated adventure in the Middle East." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
Grace is Gone (2007)57%
/
a
 
"So technologically advanced and totally exhilarating in every way that it may just make all the other '08 concert films obsolete." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 23, 2008
 
U2 3D (2008)92%
/
c+
 
"Enough of it works that you leave it with a sense that it was weak, but not a complete waste of time." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 17, 2008
 
Mad Money (2008)21%
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b-
 
"This family tragedy puts us somewhere near the edge of our seats and pulls us right along its downward spiral." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 17, 2008
 
Cassandra's Dream (2008)51%
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B
 
"The glory of the movie is Reilly's performance, which is executed with a perfectly straight face and no hint of self-consciousness." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)75%
/
b
 
"An absorbing and well-made indie drama." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
He Was a Quiet Man (2007)78%
/
a
 
"Likely to cement the reputation of Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) as the best of the younger American auteur filmmakers." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
There Will Be Blood (2007)92%

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