Editing William Goldman (section)

===Critical reception===
In their feature on Goldman, ''IGN'' said, "It's a testament to just how truly great William Goldman is at his best that I actually had to think hard about what to select as his 'Must-See' cinematic work".<ref name=ign/> The site described his script for ''All the President's Men'' as a "model of storytelling clarity... and artful manipulation".<ref name=ign />

Art Kleiner, writing in 1987, said, "William Goldman, a very skilled storyteller, wrote several of the most well-known films of the past 18 years—including ''Marathon Man'', part of ''All the President's Men'', and ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''."<ref name="AK">{{Cite journal |last=Kleiner |first=Art |date=Summer 1987 |title=Adventures in the Screen Trade |journal=[[Whole Earth Review]] |location=San Francisco |publisher=[[Point Foundation (environment)|Point Foundation]] |page=120}}</ref> 
 
Three of Goldman's scripts have been voted into the [[Writers Guild of America]] hall-of-fame's 101 Greatest Screenplays list.<ref name=writtenby />

In his book evaluating Goldman's work, ''William Goldman: The Reluctant Storyteller'' (2014), Sean Egan said Goldman's achievements were made "without ever lunging for the lowest common denominator. Although his body of work has been consumed by millions, he has never let his populism overwhelm a glittering intelligence and penchant for upending expectation."{{sfn|Egan|2014|p=2}}