Kimberley Jones, Austin Chronicle
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For 597 reviews, this critic has graded:
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38% higher than the average critic
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60% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.1 points lower than other critics.
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Kimberley Jones' Scores
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Positive: 294 out of 597
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Mixed: 200 out of 597
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Negative: 103 out of 597
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Kimberley Jones 40
Still, once you accept Paul W.S. Anderson's entirely unnecessary adaptation on its own terms (nonsensical, underachieving), it has its limited charms, which include a snigger-inducing alphabet soup of accents, a standout rooftop swordfight, and British comedian James Corden as the Musketeers' put-upon manservant.- Posted Oct 26, 2011
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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 40
The Big Year's biggest disappointment is its inadequacy in elucidating the passion of the birder. What ardency, and what an exceptional, impenetrable world they move in. I for one wanted a better look at it.- Posted Oct 19, 2011
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Kimberley Jones 40
Perhaps Sucsy was overwhelmed by his immersion in such colorful and outré material; he's chosen for his followup, the I Can't Believe It's Not Nicholas Sparks weepie The Vow, the cinematic equivalent of a lie-down.- Posted Feb 15, 2012
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Kimberley Jones 40
Amusing but never rousing, this fourth installment in the Ice Age cartoon franchise comes fretted with freezer burn.- Posted Jul 11, 2012
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Kimberley Jones 40
This is fussy filmmaking, overly made-up (the costume mandate seems to include the buzzwords "coffee filters," "croquembouche," and "Day-Glo paint") and bereft of wit.- Posted Apr 5, 2012
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Kimberley Jones 40
By film's end, you'll wish they tossed Allen in the rainforest and left him for the leopards to snack on.- Posted Apr 25, 2012
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Kimberley Jones 40
If A Thousand Words' formula seems familiar, that's because writer Steve Koren has tripped down this quasi-metaphysical path before in "Bruce Almighty" and "Click."- Posted Mar 14, 2012
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Kimberley Jones 40
There's nothing here for the viewer to do, no kinks to work out, no double-crossings to anticipate, not even a half-hearted flail at figuring out how Danny ticks.- Posted Sep 29, 2011
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Kimberley Jones 40
This film adaptation feels like YA, with cat’s-cradle love matches, soft-focus sexuality, and a main character who never satisfactorily makes the transition from page to screen.- Posted Apr 3, 2013
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Kimberley Jones 40
Luhrmann has always had a knack with the fever of passion, but here he only catches high fever’s empty gibberish.- Posted May 8, 2013
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Kimberley Jones 40
Liberal Arts is not unlikable: There are some intelligent observations about how humans woo, and the film is so suffused with sincerity you want to give it a pat on the head just for trying so hard.- Posted Sep 27, 2012
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Kimberley Jones 40
It’s clear this director sees carnage as nothing more than an opportunity for music-video production values.- Posted Mar 13, 2013
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Kimberley Jones 30
He is meant to be brooding, I think, but Tatum’s vague features read more “meathead” than anguished young lover. He has to carry the film, but he’s the least interesting thing going on here. -
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Kimberley Jones 30
I’m told Bella’s helplessness is true to the spirit of the novels, but so what? It’s almost 2010 – let’s get hip, people. -
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Kimberley Jones 30
A stiff drink or maybe some pharmaceutical assistance might have made me overlook the film's sour tone, or the unremarkableness of its direction. -
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Kimberley Jones 30
This one has the feel of being penned on rolling papers, with room to spare. -
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Kimberley Jones 30
What this really comes down to is the film's central lie. Made of Honor pins its hopes on a character who acts utterly without honor, and on an actor who has only two settings – sensitive or smarmy. The smarm wins. -
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Kimberley Jones 30
From "Hands on a Hard Body" to an 89-minute ogling of another hard body: It boggles the mind that 11 years after his engrossing documentary about an endurance competition to win a truck in Longview, Texas, filmmaker Bindler has channeled his talents into this regrettable comedy. -
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Kimberley Jones 30
Ghosts indeed: This romantic comedy by name alone attempts to make funny – not to mention culturally relevant – the kind of swinging-dick misogyny that went out of fashion years ago. -
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Kimberley Jones 30
This is the kind of movie in which every other line of dialogue feels like a metaphor – and from there on, the film seesaws between the uncomfortable extremes of glum and twee: an overwrought dirge keyed to a xylophonic ping. -
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Kimberley Jones 30
How many screenwriters does it take to screw in this dim bulb? Five – no joke – and another one credited with “story by.” -
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Kimberley Jones 30
Even though She’s Out of My League ends exactly where you think it will, it does so without ever having actually gone anywhere at all. -
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Kimberley Jones 30
The actors do a fine, if unsoulful, job, but the real problem with A Love Divided is its unwillingness to unromanticize its heroes. -
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Kimberley Jones 30
The fictionalization of their journey is simply not that engrossing, nor are their alter egos, with their tightly scripted character arcs. -
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Kimberley Jones 30
It's a botched job through and through, made all the more distressing by Bullock's recent announcement that she's throwing in the romantic comedy towel for a while. -
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Kimberley Jones 30
Fails because it takes itself so seriously, and because it is itself so seriously dull. Soderbergh's straining to give us a wink -- come on, guys, this is fun -- but really it just feels like some awful eye twitch -- a spasm of yawning self-indulgence in a mostly captivating career. -
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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 30
Head Over Heels whitewashes the originality and, well, weirdness Waters showed in his first film, although it's impossibe to imagine anything starring young poster-pups Potter and Prinze Jr. could be particularly edgy. -
