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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Score distribution:
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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 67
Somewhere in that chirpy half-pint frame dwell some meaty comic chops. Goldie Hawn may have found her successor. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
Jet Lag's romantic fluffery is somewhat beneath these old pros, but they make its meet-cute scenario work, mostly -– and most especially when crusty, grumpy, grizzled Jean Reno announces he's "totally in love." -
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Kimberley Jones 67
It all adds up to a portrait in decency, which isn’t nearly as sexy as the title would suggest. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
I suspect that, like the Coen brothers, David Lynch, and Wes Anderson -– our American masters of idiosyncrasy -– Kaurismäki has a limited appeal. Those who get him, really get him. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
The senseless violence of a Jean-Claude Van Dammer, no point to that, but this, this has purpose. This is an ass-kicking a girl can get into. So why do I feel like crying mea culpa? -
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Kimberley Jones 67
Movingly captures the terrors and delights of being lovesick at 17. Would that it hadn't felt constrained to target only the 17-year-olds. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
Throughout, the documentary is fun and engaging, even whimsical when using (to good effect) illustrations and Gilliam’s own storyboards. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
Falling in love with the wrong person makes for a far more toothsome melodrama, a fact this small, satisfying picture rightly recognizes. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
It all boils down to trying too hard, when everybody knows a good grift is one that appears effortless. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
Franklin injects life into a flat format and has in the process done something nearly unheard of in Hollywood as of late: He's brought class back to the genre film. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
It's a goofy, tongue-in-cheek, my-gawd-how-could-we-be-so-dumb shrine, but a shrine nonetheless. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
The latest installment in the Austin Powers series has stopped making much sense at all, but it sure gets its giggle on, and good. -
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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 67
As an experiment in mood, as a love song to Paris and to the French New Wave, as a fun, flirty little number, Charlie provides a giddy satisfaction. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
Taking a cue from the horse in question, Ross’ film takes its time getting into the race, but once it gets going, the going gets good. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
Murphy's screentime takes a back seat to Douglas', of course, but from that back seat she makes a very big noise. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
Medem's film is a bleached-out beauty, hitting our most commanding human emotions -- lust to love to grief to rage and back again -- while only occasionally striking a wrong chord. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
The darker stuff begs to be handled less delicately than this dance, and in that respect the director stumbles. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
Is nothing if not foreign, but not in the sense of national demarcations of language and custom. It speaks a different cinematic language, one that tosses off the usual rules of camerawork and narrative structure. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
Ao relentlessly, gleefully dumb -- without being the slightest bit sardonic -- that you just can't help but guffaw … or groan … but probably both. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
The film stumbles a bit in its third act, when war kills the good times for good. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
While Saved! initially gets in some good gags at the expense of religious hypocrisy, it eases off, opting not to skewer religion but rather to poke it gently with a stick to see what happens. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
It's a dirty, ugly, joyless world these fathers and sons live in, and for all the passion involved, of retribution and a father's fierce love, Perdition is as emotionally distant as Sullivan. The feelings are all there, just submerged. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
Did I fall in love with Undertow? Not in the least. But I liked it alright, and amidst the mediocrity, even rot, that constitutes 98% of contemporary American movies, that'll do fine. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
The Dreamers is infused with the same kind of wistful melancholy that made the French New Wave films so winning, and it’s all gorgeous to look at. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
All told, either you get it or you don't. Film critics and senators with election prospects don't. Kids in the mood to laugh at stupid shit for 87 minutes do. I'll toss my hat in the latter ring with glee. -
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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 67
Three actors play Bobby at different ages, and none of them quite jibe with the other – 16-year-old Bobby seems far savvier than the twenty-something version (who is played by a defanged Colin Farrell). -
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Kimberley Jones 67
The script also takes the occasional dip into hokeyness, but even that is buoyed by its ballsy leading ladies. -
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Kimberley Jones 67
The film also inspires, if unconsciously, the viewer to rethink what exactly constitutes art. -
