Kimberley Jones

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Austin Chronicle
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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Silver Linings Playbook
    Cooper mostly tamps down that Sexiest Man Alive demeanor that follows him from film to film, and Lawrence – a continually startling young talent – counterpoises her Bardot beauty with a blistering snarl. They both play hurt people clawing their way toward wellness, but it's Lawrence who makes you feel the hurt in your heart – and the hope that it'll get better soon.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Wendy and Lucy
    Because Wendy and Lucy is so lean on plot and dialogue, there are long spaces to contemplate Wendy and her situation, and the logistics are mind-boggling.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Kimberley Jones
    The Testament of Ann Lee
    An undeniably novel film that nevertheless lost its novelty for me around the time the Shakers washed up on American shores (that’s about an hour in?), The Testament of Ann Lee still had me in its grip every time a musical number rolled around, which is often enough.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    The Internship
    Product placement aside, there’s an admirable, even sweet, message about fellowship and misfit pride shot through the whole script, and Vaughn is rather touching as a kind of cuddly uncle figure to his fellow interns.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Kimberley Jones
    Somm
    Somm doesn’t try to write the book on wine connoisseurship, but it does give good CliffsNotes.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 89 Kimberley Jones
    Junebug
    The sum is something deeply profound: about awkwardness, culture clash, failed connections, and – ultimately – the strength that comes from surviving a trial by fire.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Food, Inc.
    Why wait for 2012? If you're hankering for a taste of the apocalypse, the opening sequence of this eye-opening, stomach-queasing doc has plenty to go on – witness menacing superimpositions on a bleak, blighted landscape – and the hits just keep on coming.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 89 Kimberley Jones
    Perfect Days
    The film becomes a kind of meditative act.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Passages
    In Passages, Sachs’ enthralling eighth feature, he and his regular co-screenwriter Mauricio Zacharias return to the more experimental bent of Keep the Lights On, echoing that film’s elliptical nature and naturalistic presentation of sex, its dizzyingly destructive relationships and Euro-arthouse affect.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Kimberley Jones
    The Queen of Versailles
    The Queen of Versailles encourages the very worst tendencies in the audience: to sneer at the Siegels, to marvel at their tackiness, to root for their fall from grace.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    The Proposal
    Fletcher demonstrates, as with her second film, "27 Dresses," that she can put together a funny, able romantic comedy that is a cut above, but no more. Still, those leads are awfully likable, the Massachusetts-for-Alaska landscape rather picturesque, and if The Proposal doesn't reinvent the wheel, merrily we roll along nonetheless.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Nine Lives
    One wishes perhaps for a more thumping conclusion, but what we have instead is something perfectly in the spirit of the piece, reaffirming that life, big and little, happens in 10 minutes chunks.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    Monrovia, Indiana
    What I learned from Monrovia, Indiana is that I – personally – am bored by mattress shopping, City Council arguments over fire hydrants, and high school band concerts I am not obligated by shared DNA to attend.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Kimberley Jones
    Iris
    The cult of Iris caught like grassfire, and the film catches this nonagenarian nonpareil, ever in her defining owl glasses and heavy jewelry, at peak heat.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 89 Kimberley Jones
    Barbie
    Barbie, the toy, see-saws in the culture between extremes: Is she an aspirational figure, or the fastest way to f*ck up a kid’s relationship to her body? A gateway to the imagination, or a slammed door? Barbie, the movie – an exhilarating, generous, deeply handmade comedy about a mass-market product – revels in these extremes.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    Room 237
    There are no hard answers in Room 237, a feature-length, sporadically engaging exploration of the latter (The Shining).
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Kimberley Jones
    Lucky
    You feel Lucky’s frustration and gloom, how they burden him, without Stanton opening his mouth. But thank goodness he does, otherwise we wouldn’t get to hear him croon the lover’s lament “Volver, Volver” with a backing mariachi band. The moment is sublime – gawdam, Harry could really sell a song – and piercingly poignant.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    Quite astonishingly, amidst all the chaos – and there's no better word for Tristram Shandy's inspired, breakneck madness – what emerges is a featherlight, moving meditation on new fatherhood.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Sweetgrass
    Sweetgrass’ unbroken shots of often-repetitive activity have a beguiling quality to them, their very monotony encouraging a deeper absorption and reflection, but hard facts aren’t easy to come by.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    The Wife
    What is lost in translation from Wolitzer’s novel is her particular vision of Joe – short, Brooklyn-born, Jewish – and her sidelong portrait of midcentury men of letters like Bellow and Roth. The Welsh-born Pryce makes a halfhearted swipe at mimicking an Outer Boroughs accent; he’s better at capturing Joe’s gluttony and overgrown-child sulks.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Senna
    Undeniably gripping stuff.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 89 Kimberley Jones
    Two Family House
    It's all about the little things, and the way in which the little things can steal into your heart in big ways.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Kimberley Jones
    Annihilation
    Why do I feel like a bummed-out tourist gone home with dashed hopes? “I was promised a new-millennium mindfuck, and all I got was this crummy pick-the-bodies-off horror.”
    • 79 Metascore
    • 89 Kimberley Jones
    The Christophers
    Much of the fun of The Christophers – and it is very fun – is in anticipating the hitches, then startling when they snag left rather than right. The delight is in watching Coel and McKellen play off each other.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    An entirely sympathetic portrait of the artist at an advancing age. That's right, artist – and to a generation that knows Rivers only as a screeching red-carpet provocateur or as an overknifed monstrosity, that revelation alone is worth the cost of admission.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Surfwise
    Pray maintains a steadfastly objective viewpoint, and it's a testament to his film's success that it can accommodate the audience's inevitably shifting allegiances from one family member to the next.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 89 Kimberley Jones
    A Most Violent Year
    A Most Violent Year is its own thing, hypnotic and exacting and as subtly savage as mellow-voiced Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler),” which opens the film and sets the tone. I was fully in thrall to it all.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 67 Kimberley Jones
    Kinsey
    Kinsey is too tasteful by half, and while it may have its gentle charms, it never thrills.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    Chbosky surrounds his hurting characters with the cinematic equivalent of a hug circle – which is sweet, but rather antithetical to tension-building.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Hitchcock/Truffaut
    The material begs for a much longer consideration than the film’s trim 79 minutes, but it’s still a must-watch for serious film fans.
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