ROTTEN TOMATOES: William Arnold

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
B	"An eerie, unsettling, uniquely creepy experience." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jun 19, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	42%
B-	"An interesting and eye-opening journey." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jun 19, 2008	Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)	96%
B-	"An adequate summer effects-o-rama." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jun 13, 2008	The Incredible Hulk (2008)	67%
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%
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%
D	"Is Hollywood so disconnected from its past and bankrupt of ideas that it doesn't even know this movie is a screaming clich�?" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted May 29, 2008	The Strangers (2008)	41%
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%
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%
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%
B-	"*As a summer thrill machine, Speed Racer* is far from supercharged.*" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer* Posted May 8, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	36%
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%
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%
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%
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%
C-	"A bore." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 24, 2008	Deception (2008)	11%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
B-	"*While there are good things about it, Stop-Loss* is nothing spectacular.*" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer* Posted Mar 27, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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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