Kimberley Jones, Austin Chronicle
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For 599 reviews, this critic has graded:
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60% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.3 points lower than other critics.
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Kimberley Jones' Scores
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Positive: 294 out of 599
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Mixed: 202 out of 599
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Negative: 103 out of 599
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Kimberley Jones 89
Kazan appears in every scene of The Exploding Girl’s perfectly paced 80 minutes, and you’d miss her if she ducked out for even a moment. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
Tonally, it all makes sense, but there’s such a thing as overmuchness. Gibney laudably launches a withering attack here on the pay-to-play relationship between lobbyists and lawmakers. But this viewer felt withered, too, by the end of his battering ram of a movie. -
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Kimberley Jones 89
The film can feel a touch overscripted, but Polley and her actors effect true-to-life rhythms of speech.- Posted Aug 16, 2012
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Kimberley Jones 78
The only weak link here is Aniston's character – her Olivia, stuck in a holding pattern, feels like a holdover from Holofcener's previous, single-girl pictures, and Aniston underplays the role to the point of expressionlessness. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
(It should also be noted that Page One wears its pro-Times bias on its sleeve, right up to the rankling but now-common inclusion of a "get involved" Web address at film's end.)- Posted Jun 30, 2011
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Kimberley Jones 67
To a one, they're terrific. But in this overpacked ensemble cast, it's Binoche you want to see more of. -
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Kimberley Jones 78
This is provocative stuff, to be sure, in which the stakes are so high that a pratfall concludes with exploding limbs and the anguished effect of its final minutes is a quiet shock to the system. A comedy of errors and terrors? Who woulda thunk it?- Posted Nov 5, 2010
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Kimberley Jones 89
Moon doesn't belabor anything, really, so confidently measured and philosophically nuanced it all plays out (aided by a striking, under-the-skin original score by Clint Mansell). -
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Kimberley Jones 67
It’s best to situate yourself in the middle of the row; a seat at the end will most likely leave you feeling cross-eyed for an hour. -
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Kimberley Jones 78
What a weird, winning little movie is Robot & Frank, which explores what happens to the essential self as the memory goes. Oh, and it's a heist picture. With robot butlers. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything quite like it.- Posted Aug 29, 2012
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Kimberley Jones 67
To do no disservice to the impressive work of Bridges' co-stars, anytime his ragged writer, in flowing caftans and floppy hats, is on screen, it's impossible to take in anything else, so commanding is his presence. -
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Kimberley Jones 40
As is, it's simply too much information crammed too haphazardly into a running time that at times borders on interminable. -
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Kimberley Jones 30
"By practicing his art, he revealed himself to us." Fellini: I’m a Born Liar provides proof positive: The art indeed reveals far more than this pedestrian documentary ever does. -
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Kimberley Jones 78
Isn't Lee's most personal piece, but it may very well be his most mature. -
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Kimberley Jones 50
It's unclear if Van Sant intends to inspire guilt; here, as elsewhere, he is exasperatingly abstruse. And in this striving to not say too much, he ends up not saying much of anything at all. -
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Kimberley Jones 50
Chbosky surrounds his hurting characters with the cinematic equivalent of a hug circle – which is sweet, but rather antithetical to tension-building.- Posted Sep 27, 2012
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Kimberley Jones 40
As an unsparing portrait of disaffection among the small-paycheck, faux-creative class, The Future is rather astute … which isn't to say it isn't also bang-your-head-on-the-wall annoying.- Posted Aug 11, 2011
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Kimberley Jones 50
The Girl Who Played With Fire's chief frustration is in how removed Salander and Blomkvist are from each other. -
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Kimberley Jones 40
Grace and Johannson's courtship has all the heat of a wet wipe and, worse yet, leaves Quaid offscreen for long stretches. -
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Kimberley Jones 50
A romantic comedy, too, but this time the romance is between two women, and one of them, truth be told, is a dud. -
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Kimberley Jones 50
It has a basic goodness of heart that counteracts, if not entirely cancels out, the film's broadness and busyness. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
[Keaton's] lost none of the spunk, sass, and ditzbomb charm of her "Annie Hall" days. She, quite simply, is marvelous. Too bad her similarly iconic co-star is such a toad. Jack never stops being Jack, to great distraction. -
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Kimberley Jones 78
It's easy enough to forget there are special effects involved, so convincing is Stu's rippling fur and big beamy eyes filling up with tears. -
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Kimberley Jones 50
It's unclear where the buck stops in terms of creative authority – at one point, Clayman complains that "the only thing I feel in control of is the money" – which renders OC87 at once a remarkable achievement, and a fatally compromised film.- Posted Sep 13, 2012
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Kimberley Jones 78
The sights are ingenious, impressively rendered in 3-D, and the sounds – including cheeky voice work by Mr. T, Neil Patrick Harris, and Benjamin Bratt – are a blast. -
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Kimberley Jones 78
Much to cheer here, from its treasure trove of early and alternate versions of songs to the triumphant finale. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
Square peg, round hole. That's what the twentysomethings who drift through Margarita Happy Hour are like. -
