Kimberley Jones

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For 1,017 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 58% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kimberley Jones' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 All the Real Girls
Lowest review score: 0 My Boss's Daughter
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 569 out of 1017
  2. Mixed: 311 out of 1017
  3. Negative: 137 out of 1017
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 20 Kimberley Jones
    Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    Holy hell, having to sit through nearly three hours of M:I making like Ethan Hunt is the Messiah is not just exhausting: It’s a total misread of what makes these movies so fun. What a bummer.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    Madame Web
    Madame Web is a fender bender – nothing calamitous, just a time suck. An annoyance. A waste.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Kimberley Jones
    The Super Mario Bros. Movie
    But in going to such great lengths to avoid that film’s grim weirdness, the Super Mario Bros. Movie filmmakers have flattened the concept into benign nothingness. They’ve course corrected into the side of a mountain. There’s no heartbeat here.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    Don't Worry Darling
    A swing and a miss is too timid a dismissal. It’s a sumptuously dressed table that ends in a wet fart.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    Aline
    There are no insights here, only lavishly budgeted cosplay.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Kimberley Jones
    Playmobil: The Movie
    This is a vastly inferior toy-to-film IP expansion, with duller songs, dumber jokes, and forgettable voice work.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Kimberley Jones
    Serenity
    A spectacular misfire – is a 180 from Locke’s lean brilliance, overstuffed with plot complications, overheated with bad acting and maudlin sentiment.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    Forever My Girl
    This bland romance doesn’t take its own advice. It’s all water, no whiskey.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    Justice League
    Busy and boring and oppressively computer generated, Justice League screams we’re back to business as usual.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    Tulip Fever
    As for Zach Galifianakis, playing a dim-witted drunk – file his role under head-scratching.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 11 Kimberley Jones
    CHIPS
    The investigation is dull, the jokes dispiritingly flat-footed, with Ponch’s sex addiction and squirminess over male intimacy supplying most of the setups for CHIPS’ puerile humor.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 11 Kimberley Jones
    Boo! A Madea Halloween
    The film is chockablock with terrible actors (including Tyga, in a bizarro cameo rapping at a frat party), and the jokes he gives his inferior cast to work with are stinkers.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    Ben-Hur
    It’s not the unmitigated disaster early reviews suggested. Instead, it is a blandly competent and doggedly uninspired redo of material adapted a half-dozen times already.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    Star Trek Beyond
    Lin’s F&F films are operatically dumb, which was what makes them so much fun; maybe if Star Trek Beyond were stupider it wouldn’t feel like such a chore.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    Criminal
    Criminal is a perfectly passable thriller, if you’re cool with no one here passing as an actual human being.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    Three films into the ongoing Divergent series, one would hope we’d moved beyond laying plates and folding napkins to get to something more substantial. Yet Allegiant barely makes it to the appetizer course.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    Pan
    Ill-conceived from any number of angles, this Peter Pan origin story, scripted by Jason Fuchs (Ice Age: Continental Drift), plays topsy-turvy with J.M. Barrie’s beloved characters.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    The trouble comes when somebody opens their mouth and you’re reminded this is supremely silly stuff, and overall a much lesser version of teens versus the titans of post-apocalypse industry – a copy of a copy of a copy.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    War Room
    I lodge no complaint against the film’s emphasis on prayer, even if, dramatically, it’s not scintillating stuff to watch.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 0 Kimberley Jones
    Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
    What’s most dispiriting about this garbage burger is its nonsensical characterization of Blart himself.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    The Longest Ride
    There’s little here to convince the audience of boy and girl’s special chemistry, and nothing to attach the audience to them, either.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 20 Kimberley Jones
    The DUFF
    An adaptation of Kody Keplinger’s YA novel, The DUFF is exponentially dumb.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Kimberley Jones
    Mortdecai
    Most Americans will be unfamiliar with the late British writer Kyril Bonfiglioli’s Mortdecai novels, on which this Johnny Depp comedy is based; still, no reference point is required to come to the conclusion this is a rotten movie all around.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Kimberley Jones
    Men, Women & Children
    Not just narratively crude but aesthetically ugly, Men, Women & Children’s framing occasionally cuts characters off at the forehead, in effect lobotomizing them. I couldn’t think of a better metaphor for this brainless splotch of self-important scaremongering.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 11 Kimberley Jones
    The Best of Me
    Already hobbled by an overwrought story that turns positively Hallmark-Movie-preposterous in its third act, journeyman director Michael Hoffman (Soapdish, The Last Station) can’t conceive of a single memorable set-piece or rouse his actors into action. By the time Marsden’s character has very polite sex with the love of his life with his pants still on, I was done.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    Step Up: All In
    Because “all in” – to me, at least – suggests a certain standard of enthusiasm, of emphaticness, and what this latest Step Up movie indifferently chunks out falls far short of that standard.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    Tammy
    Unimaginatively filmed and of a misbegotten construction, Tammy goes all in with its namesake character (played by McCarthy), hanging the entire movie around a person who is immediately and irreversibly established as being thoughtless, unperceptive, destructive, and uneducated.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    That Awkward Moment
    There’s probably a movie out there that can call a happy, anatomical truce between Viagra-hopped, horizontal-dick jokes and heart-on-the-sleeve love stuff, but this ain’t that.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 20 Kimberley Jones
    Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    Branagh might as well have opened a can and dumped it on a plate, the ridges of a factory-line production still perfectly hatched on a gelatinous cylinder of crud.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 11 Kimberley Jones
    I'm in Love with a Church Girl
    I’m in Love With a Church Girl is not unambitious: It crams into its two hours terminal illness, money laundering, a DEA sting, clubbing, a prolonged coma, and lots of Bible study. But the action – punishingly turgid, spread-it-on-a-cracker cheesy – feels inauthentic, ginned up only to promote the film’s come-to-Jesus messaging, and to call the acting amateurish does a disservice to hard-working amateurs everywhere.
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