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William Goss

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:: Cinematical , eFilmCritic.com , Film.com , Horror Squad , MSN Movies , Orlando Weekly , Pajiba , The Dissolve , The Playlist
Critics' Group:: Florida Film Critics Circle, Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 716

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T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
76%	Man of Tai Chi (2013)	" The third act marks a commendably goofy sea change in an otherwise agreeably average throwback." — Film.com Posted Oct 3, 2013
78%	Metallica Through the Never (2013)	" It's all very appropriately overblown, and director Antal gives the fireworks as much attention as he does each performer." — Film.com Posted Oct 1, 2013
100%	Afflicted ()	" Puts enough of a new spin on old nightmares to stake a claim all its own." — Film.com Posted Sep 30, 2013
——	Hôtel Normandy (2013)	" Jean-Paul Bathany and Stéphane Ben Lahcene's screenplay briskly sets up its game of musical chairs, but then lets its characters wander about the seaside town at a reliably mild velocity." — The Dissolve Posted Sep 26, 2013
85%	We Are What We Are (2013)	" One of the best American horror films of the year." — Film.com Posted Sep 24, 2013
25%	Machete Kills (2013)	" All of the silliness would be a bit more fun if it weren't so exhausting." — Film.com Posted Sep 23, 2013
5%	Battle of the Year (2013)	" Should satisfy the planet of b-boys and girls to whom it thoroughly preaches, while amusing anyone else who simply can't ignore the promise of an all-corn buffet." — Film.com Posted Sep 20, 2013
——	The Lunchbox ()	" This long-distance love story is comfort food in any language, perfectly agreeable and unlikely to surprise." — Film.com Posted Sep 19, 2013
100%	Tim's Vermeer (2014)	" The most fun you'll have watching paint dry all year." — Film.com Posted Sep 14, 2013
35%	Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)	" An increasing amount of metaphysical backtracking dilutes the few simple jolts that do work this time around." — Film.com Posted Sep 13, 2013
85%	The Invisible Woman (2013)	" A narrative as emotionally repressed as its subjects must have been." — Film.com Posted Sep 11, 2013
79%	Tracks ()	" Alternately beautiful and dull, which arguably makes it a faithful encapsulation of the adventure itself." — Film.com Posted Sep 5, 2013
80%	Prisoners (2013)	" Denis Villeneuve's film requires and rewards your attention in equal measure. " — Film.com Posted Sep 5, 2013
98%	Gravity (2013)	" This is truly awesome." — Film.com Posted Sep 2, 2013
97%	12 Years a Slave (2013)	" Northup's story was a true, terrible thing, and by virtue of telling it, the burdens of all American slaves are unflinchingly realized by Ejiofor and McQueen alike." — Film.com Posted Aug 31, 2013
88%	Under the Skin ()	" A deliberately oblique work that prizes textures above answers." — Film.com Posted Aug 30, 2013
67%	Labor Day (2013)	" As consistently assured a piece of filmmaking as any we've seen from Reitman." — Film.com Posted Aug 30, 2013
——	The Last Days On Mars (2013)	" I had to wonder, could I be watching the next remarkably brainy piece of sci-fi, this year's Moon? But then the first space zombie gutted a concerned colleague with a power drill, and in that moment, I knew exactly what I was in for." — MSN Movies Posted Aug 29, 2013
4%	Paranoia (2013)	" There's much sprinting and keyboard-clacking for an audience that might feasibly value the sight of either over the presence of genuine invention or suspense." — Film.com Posted Aug 16, 2013
30%	Kick-Ass 2 (2013)	" ...an even more pronounced cartoon that maintains the first film's habit of mocking comic conventions while rarely subverting them." — Film.com Posted Aug 15, 2013
27%	Planes (2013)	" A visually colorful but otherwise vanilla continuation of the series." — Film.com Posted Aug 9, 2013
38%	Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)	" Precious little about this is particularly memorable, but it's the odd touch of local color that makes these routine acts of derring-do a bit easier to bear." — Film.com Posted Aug 8, 2013
68%	Elysium (2013)	" Blomkamp's seemingly limitless imagination in terms of tech finds itself repeatedly and frustratingly grounded by heavy-handed storytelling." — Film.com Posted Aug 2, 2013
63%	2 Guns (2013)	" If we're being honest, Baltasar Kormákur's 2 Guns beats present-day Walter Hill at his own game." — Film.com Posted Aug 1, 2013
23%	A Teacher (2013)	" Burdge's performance boasts a remarkable emotional precision throughout - if ever there's a reason to seek this one out, it would be for her." — Film.com Posted Jul 30, 2013
52%	The To Do List (2013)	" A star-studded but scattershot affair that tackles its comedic obligations as dutifully as its heroine pursues her sexual conquests." — Film.com Posted Jul 25, 2013
89%	The World's End (2013)	" Wright's terrifically precise approach to comedy remains as well-honed as ever." — Film.com Posted Jul 20, 2013
42%	Red 2 (2013)	" What was once engagingly silly is now much closer to insultingly dumb." — Film.com Posted Jul 19, 2013
31%	The Lone Ranger (2013)	" It's the end result of a calculated brand - two and a half hours of 'fun' in air quotes." — Film.com Posted Jul 1, 2013
78%	Europa Report (2013)	" Its high-minded emphasis on exploration and impeccable special effects are pitted against a familiar one-by-one slasher-like plot and structural cheats..." — Film.com Posted Jun 29, 2013
60%	Heli ()	" ...ultimately comes off as an empty piece of provocation." — MSN Movies Posted Jun 29, 2013
86%	The Conjuring (2013)	" All the contorting girls and pea-soup vomit in the world can hardly compete with a blood-stained sheet and a well-placed doll." — Film.com Posted Jun 27, 2013
50%	White House Down (2013)	" Tatum and Foxx's nigh-instantaneous camaraderie makes the alternately corny and convoluted routine of the rest a bit easier to take, even as Emmerich makes every effort to supplant intelligence with patriotism." — Film.com Posted Jun 26, 2013
47%	Maniac (2013)	" It's a bit like watching an amputee play hopscotch: there's no way that it's polite to stare for this long, but you just have to see if this guy's gonna make it to the end." — Film.com Posted Jun 21, 2013
96%	A Band Called Death (2013)	" Mark Covino and Jeff Howlett have crafted a rousing account of the Hackney brothers, who would not only form the rare all-black punk band, but do so in the mid-'70s, nearly beating the Ramones and the Sex Pistols to the punch." — Film.com Posted Jun 19, 2013
67%	World War Z (2013)	" As I understand it, fidelity to Max Brooks' novel has been scant at best, but neither that nor countless post-production woes prevent Paramount's adaptation from serving as an efficient and effectively exciting globe-spanning zombie thriller." — Film.com Posted Jun 7, 2013
22%	Violet & Daisy (2013)	" A candy-colored offering of bloodshed and banter so self-conscious that it alienates the viewer early and often." — Film.com Posted Jun 6, 2013
35%	The Internship (2013)	" A Google commercial disguised as every other campus comedy ever made, with party-hearty nonsense and fish-out-of-water antics tempered down to PG-13 levels for maximum mediocrity." — Film.com Posted Jun 4, 2013
84%	This Is the End (2013)	" ...occupies a frequently hilarious middle ground between their Apatow-produced bromances, the giddy gruesomeness of the recent Aftershock and the confined social abrasiveness of It's a Disaster." — Film.com Posted May 31, 2013
50%	Now You See Me (2013)	" The whole of it is made of flash paper, intended to burn brightly for an instant before vanishing from your memory without a trace." — Film.com Posted May 30, 2013
54%	Some Girl(s) (2013)	" It's minor LaBute, but nonetheless short and bittersweet." — Film.com Posted May 29, 2013
64%	Fever Pitch (The Perfect Catch) (2005)	" ...tries to deal with the messy process of nurturing a proper adult relationship rather than simply shoehorning two lovers into a predictable set of catastrophic circumstances until they finally succumb to one another." — Film.com Posted May 29, 2013
39%	Speed Racer (2008)	" Amid the overly earnest tone, (almost) squeaky-clean humor and familiar messages about teamwork and integrity is the rare film family that's as strong at the start as they are by the end." — Film.com Posted May 29, 2013
100%	Blue Ruin ()	" The violence is unfailingly nasty, the humor suitably dark, and the human center holds due to Dwight's endearingly short-sighted, continually fallible, yet understandably just mission against those who squandered his own happiness decades before." — MSN Movies Posted May 21, 2013
88%	The Congress ()	" ...commits to Big Ideas of identity and integrity with Robin Wright remarkably anchoring it all as, well, herself. (Sort of.)" — MSN Movies Posted May 19, 2013
92%	Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)	" To call Inside Llewyn Davis a minor work doesn't render it any less a pleasure to watch; it's to admit that the film's melancholy depiction of the '60s folk scene in Greenwich Village (and beyond) may only improve in the interim." — MSN Movies Posted May 18, 2013
59%	The Bling Ring (2013)	" Doesn't explore the who's and why's of the scenario so much as the how's and why-not's." — MSN Movies Posted May 18, 2013
75%	Pieta (2013)	" May not rank with the operatic madness of Park Chan-wook, or the visceral overkill of Kim Jee-woon, but if you're still not sick of feeling sick, then Pieta might be the movie for you." — Film.com Posted May 17, 2013
100%	Short Term 12 ()	" Larson's performance is something of a quiet revelation, and the same could be said of the film itself." — Film.com Posted May 14, 2013

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