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Moviegoing with Bill

Moviegoing with Bill is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Bill Arceneaux.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3.5/5
The Last Dive (2025) Bill Arceneaux An extraordinarily mature feat.
Posted Nov 02, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Outdoor School (2025) Bill Arceneaux This isn't a warm film, but it's honest. A movie can be both not-so-good and for-sure-fine, right? Yes.
Posted Nov 02, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
American Dendrite (2025) Bill Arceneaux This could just be the most intelligent movie of this year, or maybe the decade.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Transamazonia (2024) Bill Arceneaux On the precipice of being near-greatness, the film plays as more character-driven than what I was hoping would be balanced with a CTA or call to action. It's potent, but not perfect. It's blatant, but brilliant.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Liquor Bank (2025) Bill Arceneaux No flare, no manufactured excitement, and no force to be found with this film. Just moments, honest and noble. It doesn't burst with drama so much as it presents with a pulse. That's enough.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink (2023) Bill Arceneaux Both an interesting topic and a call to arms. A documentary feature that, at heart, provides easy-to-digest information--nothing more, nothing less.
Posted Sep 20, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Megadoc (2025) Bill Arceneaux One of my favorite pieces of puzzling documentary cinema. Like Jazz music, perhaps.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Toxic Avenger (2023) Bill Arceneaux Both compromised and sad. Both entertaining and sweet. It's blood without the gore. It's a fine roast without the sharp bite.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
War of the Worlds (2025) Bill Arceneaux This is the stupidest movie of the year, and for that, War of the Worlds might also give the most entertaining kick of any other flick in 2025.
Posted Aug 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Bill Arceneaux It's action figure cinema at its most entertaining, rubber and plastic at one-hundred percent capacity. A lovely film, but it's not grand.
Posted Aug 04, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Superman (2025) Bill Arceneaux Great. Incredible. Might be the best movie of the moment.
Posted Jul 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Underground Orange (2024) Bill Arceneaux Distorts genre, gender, and good gatherings with great (and proud) gusto. Underground Orange is fun, and that's more than enough.
Posted Jun 21, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Zodiac Killer Project (2025) Bill Arceneaux Both critical and cherishing of what is and what could have been. Outstanding. Resonating. Very much so.
Posted Jun 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Queen of the Ring (2024) Bill Arceneaux What it lacks in technical craft is made up for by genuine emotion and engagement. It understands how to tell a captivating tale, as the best matches in professional wrestling do.
Posted May 19, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Future Date (2024) Bill Arceneaux An awfully cute and absolutely cheery dystopically satirical romantic comedy of lovely proportions.
Posted May 07, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Secret Mall Apartment (2024) Bill Arceneaux Astonishing. About the charm and the fanciful ideas that make life great. One of the best films of the year.
Posted Apr 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Ballad of Straw-Hat Sam (2024) Bill Arceneaux This is not a film of nuance and easter eggs, but rather blunt objects and f-bombs. Enjoyable enough and creative through and through
Posted Apr 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
A Thousand Pines (2023) Bill Arceneaux A movie that’s always moving in more ways than one. Like a hymn for community and better tomorrows.
Posted Apr 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Baby Invasion (2024) Bill Arceneaux As it provocatively pokes thoughts out of our collective heads, this is a movie whose hypnotic trance can be frustrating and tedious to watch but entertaining all the same. I love it. I want more of it.
Posted Mar 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Daaaaaali! (2023) Bill Arceneaux All the way charming and hilarious to the point of being a distraction of its own making. Expect to be left satisfied and smiling
Posted Mar 27, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Hazard (2025) Bill Arceneaux Beguiling. Very thankfully well done, affecting, and tight. Starkly real.
Posted Mar 15, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Nickel Boys (2024) Bill Arceneaux Not only the best film of the year but one of the greatest movies of this decade. Gobsmacked and bedazzled, I was left.
Posted Mar 03, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Pavements (2024) Bill Arceneaux I haven’t seen a movie before that tears itself apart and puzzles itself into a new shape in, really, ever. I think.
Posted Feb 18, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Nosferatu (2024) Bill Arceneaux A startling take that burrows under the skin and refuses to leave without a struggle. Without being pulled out by an instrument. By force. Iconic.
Posted Dec 30, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Scrap (2022) Bill Arceneaux Most assuredly, I can say that Scrap is a very well-expressed and downright cute movie, but that would be to undercut what is an independent filmmaking triumph.
Posted Dec 23, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
Pratfall (2023) Bill Arceneaux Cultural and contemporary, charming and cute. It’s amazing. I’m amazed at how such a small production could make such a small film feel large in scope.
Posted Dec 08, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Hippo (2023) Bill Arceneaux A vulgarity of punk notions and taboo grotesqueness. It’s more than a peek at the remnants of a really nuclear family; it’s an atomic bomb dropped on America by weirdos, foreign and domestic.
Posted Dec 04, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
Nurse Unseen (2023) Bill Arceneaux A filmmaking victory that should be treasured. The best American documentary about COVID-19 since Totally Under Control.
Posted Nov 03, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Giants Rising (2024) Bill Arceneaux An encyclopedia in motion and is maybe the best of the best at it. Does great in making sure that every aspect of the Redwoods’ majesty is fully studied and captured. Mission accomplished, I say.
Posted Oct 28, 2024  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Just Above the Surface of the Earth (2024) Bill Arceneaux A ripple of pain and frustration. It’s shocking just how intense the movie makes its topic look and feel so unappealing.
Posted Oct 28, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Chasing Time (2024) Bill Arceneaux Beautifully shocking imagery makes up the bulk of this movie, acting as more horror than bittersweet sendoff for one man. On occasion, I mean.
Posted Oct 28, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
The Cigarette Surfboard (2024) Bill Arceneaux Incredibly engaging, very smart, and totally rad.
Posted Oct 27, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
In the Whale (2023) Bill Arceneaux Films like In the Whale come along rarely, but when they screen, smiles are mustered and tears are dropped. Astonishing with emotional impact.
Posted Oct 24, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Apple Cider Vinegar (2024) Bill Arceneaux Probably the cutest and most inventive festival-released documentary of this year, and likely an award contender. Likely. Probably.
Posted Oct 24, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Water for Life (2023) Bill Arceneaux Elevates the conversation of progress and greed over people and justice in an above-standard way. We should be so fortunate to see such a film.
Posted Oct 24, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Arthur Tress: Water's Edge (2024) Bill Arceneaux A peek at a man of immense whimsy and lots of positive energy—the kind that might give an audience a secondary high. And that’s great. A complete surprise and a welcome character.
Posted Oct 19, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Running for the Mountains (2024) Bill Arceneaux Running for the Mountains, even with faults outlined, maintains a brave & bold attitude for the truth, which is what matters most.
Posted Oct 19, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Cat City (2023) Bill Arceneaux For its duration, Cat City is all personality, much like a, well, cat. There’s fun, there’s yearning, there’s genuine sentimentality, and there’s real-world depiction - showing the situation for what it is without dressing anything up.
Posted Oct 19, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The 4:30 Movie (2024) Bill Arceneaux There’s awkwardness in all the right places. There’s charm in spades too. Cute. It’s just cute. Well done, sir.
Posted Sep 27, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
You Gotta Believe (2024) Bill Arceneaux It’s a movie stuck in the mud but heavy with passion and striving for victory. An underdog by design.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (2024) Bill Arceneaux Truly the stuff of cinematic proportions, even with the speaking-to-the-pews thing - though maybe others will listen too.
Posted Jul 22, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Aggro Dr1ft (2023) Bill Arceneaux As a “movie,” Aggro Dr1ft is almost egregious. With video game logic that’s made for vertical viewing, clip cutting, and social sharing, Aggro Dr1ft could be either prophetic or historical in some fashion. Or a time capsule. OR a nightmare.
Posted Jul 05, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Queen of the Deuce (2022) Bill Arceneaux An absolutely fabulous section of the film exhibition history in America. It is a classic “make it here, make it anywhere” immigrant tale—almost straight out of the movies.
Posted Jun 25, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
Gasoline Rainbow (2023) Bill Arceneaux More shadowplay than traditional movie, and more real than reel, Gasoline Rainbow is one of the more fascinating films of the year.
Posted Jun 25, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Happy Campers (2023) Bill Arceneaux Made up entirely of beautiful shots, the kind that tells stories on their own, define the people that are featured, and move our hearts to beat at their fullest capacity.
Posted Jun 05, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
23 Mile (2024) Bill Arceneaux Captures both the end of the world as we know it and the continuation of the same old same old in startling frames. A first-class flight through unrelenting noise.
Posted Jun 05, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
The Death Tour (2024) Bill Arceneaux More than anything, this film is less about the wrestlers being on the road and facing physical and mental pain, but rather it’s about their go-get-them attitude when entering new places of heartache.
Posted May 31, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Who is Michael Jang? (2024) Bill Arceneaux This is a film that’s partially about discovery after the fact and is all a human profile in the present moment.
Posted May 31, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
My Own Normal (2024) Bill Arceneaux Alexander Freeman is a real reel filmmaker, that’s for sure. And his movie is as tangible as a touch and a grasp. That’s indeed something that only a few artists can convey.
Posted May 31, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Film Is Dead. Long Live Film! (2024) Bill Arceneaux There’s plenty of thoughtfulness and more than enough life given to the movie through the subjects found and the collections offered.
Posted May 31, 2024  Edit critic review
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