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BillGoodykoontz rated Reality
and wrote a review Apr 15th, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Stoker
and wrote a review Mar 14th, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Like Someone in Love
and wrote a review Like Someone in Love
”It’s always a pleasure to watch a movie by a director so assured of his craft, putting his audience exactly where it needs to be in each shot. In a movie…“ (more)Mar 14th, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated The Call
and wrote a review Mar 14th, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Seven Psychopaths
and wrote a review Seven Psychopaths
” "Seven Psychopaths" is a dark, dark lark, bolstered by a crazy-and-proud-of-it performance by Sam Rockwell, which is balanced by a controlled one from…“ (more)Mar 14th, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
and wrote a review The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
”Burt is a jerk, pure and simple, with the charm missing. Sure, in the predictable story he slouches toward redemption, but at a certain point, it’s too…“ (more)Mar 13th, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Oz the Great and Powerful
and wrote a review Oz the Great and Powerful
”We’re off to see the wizard, Dorothy once famously sang. It doesn’t dishonor the original, but when it comes to “Oz the Great and Powerful,” that…“ (more)Mar 8th, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Greedy Lying Bastards
and wrote a review Greedy Lying Bastards
”Unlike Al Gore’s 2006 climate-change documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” the film’s not interested in arguing the reality of human-caused climate…“ (more)Mar 8th, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated The Monk
and wrote a review Mar 8th, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated A Place at the Table
and wrote a review A Place at the Table
”The problem, as “Table” shows, isn’t that the next meal never comes. It’s that when it arrives, too often it is filled with empty calories...Mar 8th, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Emperor
and wrote a review Mar 8th, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Dead Man Down
and wrote a review Dead Man Down
”The screenplay by J. H. Wyman (”Fringe”) is squirm-inducing in its preposterous dialogue and haphazard plotting... “ (more)Mar 8th, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Jack the Giant Slayer
and wrote a review Jack the Giant Slayer
”Once the giants come out to play, the movie shifts into overdrive. The film is like a big Disneyland ride, full of wonder and myth... “ (more)Mar 1st, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Koch
and wrote a review Mar 1st, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
and wrote a review Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
”Herzog’s longing for the ideological purity in which these lives are lived, free of paperwork and bureaucracy, taxes and technology, drives the film,…“ (more)Mar 1st, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated The Gatekeepers
and wrote a review The Gatekeepers
”You wouldn’t think that listening to former leaders of Israel’s secret service would put you in mind of a John Lennon song, but in “The Gatekeepers,”…“ (more)Mar 1st, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated 21 and Over
and wrote a review 21 and Over
”If you liked "The Hangover" but felt like it needed more projectile vomit, stampeding buffaloes and naughty sorority pledges being spanked, then "21 &…“ (more)Mar 1st, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Safe Haven
and wrote a review Safe Haven
”Are there really second chances? Can life begin anew? The film barely asks those questions, then lazily answers them in exactly as everyone expects...…“ (more)Feb 22nd, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Beautiful Creatures
and wrote a review Beautiful Creatures
”Empowerment and powerlessness become entangled in a coming-of-age myth that could prove appealing to young women for many sequels to come... “ (more)Feb 22nd, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Snitch
and wrote a review Feb 22nd, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Bless Me, Ultima
and wrote a review Bless Me, Ultima
”The film never feels gritty enough for the time period or the setting, marred by cinematography that is too self-consciously pretty for its own good. The…“ (more)Feb 22nd, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated A Good Day to Die Hard
and wrote a review A Good Day to Die Hard
” "...rather lackluster.... Unfortunately, the bad guys are too nondescript. Not everyone can measure up to Alan Rickman in the original 'Die Hard.' Few…“ (more)Feb 22nd, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
and wrote a review A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
” "...doesn't really seem to have any reason to exist, other than maybe to give writer and director Roman Coppola and star Charlie Sheen something to do…“ (more) -
BillGoodykoontz rated Beasts of the Southern Wild
and wrote a review Beasts of the Southern Wild
”Beasts of the Southern Wild" is a mixture of magical realism, Southern gothic, coming-of-age movie, star turn for first-timers, disaster story and out-and-out…“ (more)Feb 21st, 2013 Details -
BillGoodykoontz rated Silver Linings Playbook
and wrote a review Silver Linings Playbook
”For a movie that seems at times to have no idea what it’s trying to do, “Silver Linings Playbook” is compulsively watchable... “ (more)Jan 28th, 2013 Details