ROTTEN TOMATOES: William Arnold

BEST REVIEWED FILMS

Genre: # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Results for All Genres ...	*(1-50* of 139) Next** »

Sort by « RATING	Sort by ADD DATE (default)	Sort by TITLE \| YEAR	Sort by T-METER
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%
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%
A	" Penn's direction is amazingly sharp and intuitive, full of masterful touches that give an epic dimension and scope to the parable." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Sep 27, 2007	Into the Wild (2007)	83%
A	" Every scene is kissed with irony, the characters all seem believably flawed, the narrative unfolds with just the right storytelling panache and everything else about the production seems right." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Aug 11, 2007	After The Wedding (2007)	87%
A	" So magnificent in so many ways that, for the first time, it seems to raise the docudrama to high art." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Oct 19, 2006	The Queen (2006)	96%
A	" Funny, muckraking documentary." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Sep 21, 2006	This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006)	84%
A	" *The buzz got it wrong: Cars* has turned out to be all pleasure, one of Pixar's most imaginative and thoroughly appealing movies ever.*" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer* Posted Jun 8, 2006	Cars (2006)	75%
A	" It's a mind-boggling disaster epic that draws its special power from the fact that we are both the villains and victims of the story." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jun 1, 2006	An Inconvenient Truth (2006)	93%
A	" Works on a large, almost operatic, scale but, instead of seeing its world in simplistic terms of heroes and villains, it's a tapestry of immensely complex characters motivated by historic forces and quirks of personality." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted May 20, 2006	Water (2006)	91%
A	" A true gem: perhaps the most thoroughly charming, and completely satisfying, independent film I've seen in the past two or three years." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Mar 18, 2006	Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005)	69%
A	" Remakes simply don't get any more respectful -- or more inspired -- than this." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Dec 13, 2005	King Kong (2005)	84%
A	" The movie is so well-cast, sympathetically acted and delicately directed -- and so genuinely touching and funny -- that it leaps right out of the narrow confines of the family bonding formula." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Oct 6, 2005	In Her Shoes (2005)	76%
A	" Like the best play-to-movie adaptations, it leaves us feeling that we've had a powerful and enriching theatrical experience." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Sep 28, 2005	Proof (2005)	64%
A	" The movie grabs us from its heart-pounding opening sequence and pulls us inexorably along its trajectory with the grip of the last gruesome act of a Greek tragedy." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted May 18, 2005	Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)	79%
A	" More than just a quirky profile, this is an absorbing, nuanced, warts-and-all portrait of a unique Northwest character." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jan 20, 2005	Big City Dick: Richard Peterson's First Movie (2004)	n/a
A	" Is it really this good? In a word, yes." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jan 7, 2005	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	91%
A	" With a relatively small budget to recover, Oscar nominations and year-end critical accolades a strong possibility, and Ray Charles' death this past June giving the film a special timeliness, it's hard to see how it can miss being a major hit." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Oct 28, 2004	Ray (2004)	82%
A	" Deliciously original." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Aug 12, 2004	Intimate Strangers (2004)	87%
A	" A film that concludes the saga with a blissful unity and satisfaction, and sweeps us away with its nail-biting narrative flair and filmmaking verve." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Dec 17, 2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	94%
A	" A movie experience that carries a lingering, powerful aftershock." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Oct 8, 2003	Mystic River (2003)	87%
A	" It's an absorbing, genuinely heartwarming parable that says a lot about its specific culture, and, at the same time, speaks in a universal voice that transcends its environment and crosses all national and ethnic boundaries." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jun 5, 2003	Together (2003)	73%
A	" You have to go all the way back to 'The Godfather Part II,' 'The Empire Strikes Back' or 'Superman 2' to find a sequel that flows so naturally out of its setup or expands on its themes with such old-fashioned storytelling verve and satisfaction." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Dec 19, 2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	96%
A	" Visually, the film is a knockout." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted May 23, 2002	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)	68%
A	" A genuine triumph for Jeunet, and a daring change of pace." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Nov 8, 2001	Amelie (2001)	90%
A	" Coppola's overall new cut nicely smoothes out the more irritating rough edges of the original editing flow." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Aug 24, 2001	Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)	92%
A	" Veber's career-best outing." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jul 6, 2001	The Closet (2001)	87%
A	" The movie for those of us who have been waiting for something new and original." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Mar 30, 2001	Memento (2001)	94%
A	Click here to read article -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 3, 2002	Best in Show (2000)	94%
A	" Yang has created an ensemble of ... characters who are individually and collectively so heartbreakingly human that it's just impossible not to identify with -- and care about -- them." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jan 19, 2001	Yi Yi (2000)	96%
A	" Wonderfully harkens back to Hollywood's golden age of sophisticated comedy, and in particular to the masterpieces of Crowe's filmmaking idol, Billy Wilder." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jan 1, 2000	Almost Famous (2000)	88%
A	" A work in which [Altman's] shrewd observation of the human species has never seemed sharper." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jan 1, 2000	Dr. T and the Women (2000)	57%
A	" A dynamite comedy-drama." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jan 1, 2000	American Beauty (1999)	89%
A	" There's not a single moment of this film that's not wildly imaginative and utterly delightful." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jan 1, 2000	Toy Story 2 (1999)	100%
A	" The best movie so far in 1999!" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jan 1, 2000	The Sixth Sense (1999)	84%
A	" What has to stand as cinema's most successful musical epic." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 18, 2002	Amadeus (1984)	97%
A	" ...arguably the most effective opening in movie history." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 3, 2002	Apocalypse Now (1979)	98%
A	" A mesmerizing time capsule that captures the voice of the '60s counterculture at the very moment it was about to pass from the center stage of American life." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 18, 2002	The Last Waltz (1978)	97%
A	" Antonioni's moviemaking panache and distinctive narrative rhythm rarely have seemed so enticing and satisfying." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Nov 17, 2005	The Passenger (1975)	91%
A	" ... more than lives up to its reputation." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Aug 12, 2006	Army of Shadows (1969)	97%
A	" More than a dozen sequences defy description, and the vast battle scenes of Austerlitz and Borodino have no equal." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Dec 6, 2007	War and Peace (1968)	100%
A	" [The film embidies] exactly what the Beatles represented emotionally and philosophically in the mid-'60s: artistic daring, cheeky non-sentimentality, a new generation taking over, naively confident the world was 'getting better all the time.'" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 3, 2002	Yellow Submarine (1968)	94%
A	" An extraordinary work." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Mar 18, 2004	Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)	100%
A	" The movie is a tough, stylish, deliciously complex labyrinth of underworld double-crosses that, like most of the other Melville noirs, ultimately celebrates honor among thieves." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Sep 6, 2007	Le Doulos (1962)	95%
A	" One of the most elegant entertainments ever made in Hollywood, and also one of the boldest and most personal of the Hitchcock films -- a work that's almost perverse in its giddy celebration of the thrill of voyeurism." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 3, 2002	Rear Window (1954)	100%
A	" A delicious ensemble piece." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Aug 29, 2002	Pepe Le Moko (1937)	100%
A	" Its story is so perfectly (and economically) told, its characters are so rich, human and civilized, and its dialogue so intelligent and revealing that the film wraps a spell around you that's hard to describe but impossible to forget." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 3, 2002	Grand Illusion (1937)	97%
A-	" There's definitely hope for an industry that can still make a movie as good as Flash of Genius about a subject as difficult as intellectual property rights." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Oct 2, 2008	Flash of Genius (2008)	59%
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)	77%
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)	74%
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%

Genre: # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Results for All Genres ...	*(1-50* of 139) Next** »

* Sort by Rating: Sort results by this critic's rating. This option is only available for critics with a rating system (4 star, letter grade, 1-10, etc.)
* Sort by T-meter: Sort results by the Tomatometer (percentage of critics recommending a certain movie)