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KIMBERLY JONES
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• Austin Chronicle

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4.5/5 2046
3.5/4 Juno
4/5 Lost in Translation
3.5/5 Raising Victor Vargas
3/5 Seabiscuit
2.5/5 Hollywood Homicide
2/4 National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets
2/5 The Spanish Apartment
1.5/5 Fellini I'm a Born Liar
1/5 Love Me If You Dare
0.5/5 Gigli
0/5 Alex and Emma
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4.5/5 2046
4.5/5 All the Real Girls
4.5/5 Before Night Falls
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/5 Meet the Spartans
0/5 Ultraviolet
0/5 Waiting...
0/5 Yu-Gi-Oh: The Movie
0/5 A Cinderella Story
0/5 My Boss's Daughter
0/5 Alex and Emma
0/5 Someone Like You
0/5 Stealing Harvard
0/5 The In Crowd
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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4/5
 
"Funny and sweet and guaranteed to flood you with good feeling." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted May 16, 2008
 
Son of Rambow (2008)77%
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1/5
 
"You can take what happens in Vegas, keep it in Vegas, and keep the rest of the us out of it." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted May 8, 2008
 
What Happens in Vegas (2008)29%
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1.5/5
 
"The script can veer from mean-spirited to uncomfortably blue." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Made of Honor (2008)12%
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2.5/5
 
"My Blueberry Nights can be sexy as hell, but for the first time in a Wong film, I felt duped for being so easily seduced." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
My Blueberry Nights (2008)49%
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2/4
 
"Alexander's script considers context anathema, leaving us to wonder, among other puzzlers, why these two jerks are friends to begin with – and, perhaps, on what bad breakup or neglected childhood one may blame the film's dispiriting misanthropy." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Backseat (2008)8%
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3/5
 
"It's awfully agreeable -- so why doesn’t it entirely work?" -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)53%
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2/5
 
"Anyone hoping for the lean meat of the fast, furious, and riotously funny Shaun of the Dead or even the popcorn fancy of the lesser Hot Fuzz will do best to look elsewhere." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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3/5
 
"An intriguing historical document, not attempting a completist portrait of Carter but rather a series of candids." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 20, 2008
 
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007)79%
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2.5/5
 
"When you’re maybe just about ready to fully endorse the film, it gives in to some generic romantic-comedy frippery that punctures a hole in its own believability." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
Definitely, Maybe (2008)72%
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2/4
 
"Less twisty than its 2004 predecessor and yet somehow more incoherent, National Treasure: Book of Secrets plays like a duplicate schematic of the first." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007)32%
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0/5
 
"To devote an entire feature film to making fun of another film's universally acknowledged gay subtext seems to me good cause for said filmmakers to have a sit-down with their muse, because somebody's been sleeping on the job." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
Meet the Spartans (2008)2%
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3/5
 
"How She Move, which screened at last year's Sundance, wears its low budget on its sleeve; the upshot is a cast of unknowns who are naturals." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 23, 2008
 
How She Move (2008)68%
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2.5/5
 
"I have seen the future, and it looks like TBS. Maybe TNT. I predict a happy union between 27 Dresses and cable TV, forever rerunning with commercial breaks tailor-made for laundry-loading and sandwich-making." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
27 Dresses (2008)39%
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3.5/4
 
"An indie comedy that uplifts – funny and smart, totally trying to be cool and succeeding, and heartfelt to boot." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
Juno (2007)93%
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2/5
 
"This is a visually and emotionally soft affair, and the material calls for something with far sharper edges." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)83%
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4/5
 
"Imagination typically should be encouraged in children, but an excess of it leads to tragedy in this more than worthy adaptation of Ian McEwan's 2002 novel." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Atonement (2007)82%
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3/5
 
"There’s plenty here to hang a franchise on." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
The Golden Compass (2007)42%
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3.5/5
 
"Haynes's warmest film yet. The thing is infused with love -- not the slavish kind, but a true-eyed tribute to the artist who belongs to nobody and everybody at once." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
I'm Not There (2007)78%
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"The film's primary function seems to be in lensing the banalities of everyday living. To that end, the film is successful; in providing illumination to those banalities, one will have to look elsewhere." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Aug 21, 2007
 
Kissing on the Mouth (2005)40%
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4/5
 
"A near-perfect relationship-trauma comedy. It’s ragged in all the right ways, just like the way we love and wake up to the realization that that love has gone sour." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
The Puffy Chair (2006)76%
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3/5
 
"It is pretty, and it stays just left of the dial of darlingness, and Cornish's is the most goddamn, gosh-wow debut I've seen in years." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted May 27, 2006
 
Somersault (2006)82%
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1/5
 
"Spiritual epiphany is tough to convey onscreen, and near impossible in the hands of wooden actors." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted May 20, 2006
 
The Celestine Prophecy (2006)5%
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3.5/5
 
"It isn’t an easy film, but the world’s already got plenty of easy and easily digestible films. Nervy and confounding pictures, however, we could use more of." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted May 6, 2006
 
Room (2005)69%
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3.5/5
 
"Considering Holofcener’s expanded canvas and the film’s relatively short running time, it’s a wonder these characters feel so fully formed (not to mention near and dear)." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 21, 2006
 
Friends With Money (2006)71%
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2/5
 
"A watered-down likeness that curiously turns disaster flick in its too-scary third act." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 8, 2006
 
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)56%
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3.5/5
 
"By all accounts, Sterne’s novel is nutty and ribald and utterly defiant of conventional storytelling techniques … hence this adaptation’s wonderfully meta take." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 1, 2006
 
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006)90%
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0/5
 
"Jovovich, who’s shown sensitivity in her dramatic work, looks spectacularly bored as she power-kicks her way through one bloody pile-up after another. That boredom, like the mystery virus at the center of the film, is contagious." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 25, 2006
 
Ultraviolet (2006)8%
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"Live Free or Die -- opens and closes zippily, but in between frequently stalls out, and the wannabe-hoodlum antics of Rugged and LaGrand -- play with diminishing returns." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 24, 2006
 
Live Free or Die (2007)47%
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"The causality here is somewhat thin -- any time one story really gets cooking, we're jettisoned to another -- but the ensemble cast does good work, and the location becomes a character unto itself." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 23, 2006
 
Things that Hang from Trees (2006)n/a
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2.5/5
 
Click here to read article -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 4, 2006
 
The Blue Butterfly (2004)38%
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4/5
 
"Deftly mixing talking-head interviews, archival footage, and sly musical cues, Ballets Russes impressively catalogues 30 years of the companies’ triumphs and failures, and does so in a way that a dance neophyte can easily absorb ..." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Mar 4, 2006
 
Ballets Russes (2005)91%
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3/5
 
"Something New, in its endearingly daft third act, manages the neat feat of feeling sweetly inevitable rather than boilerplate predictable." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Feb 11, 2006
 
Something New (2006)61%
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2.5/5
 
"Glory Road really isn’t a bad show – it’s just an obvious one – and one wishes material of this historical import had received a more refined rendering." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 15, 2006
 
Glory Road (2006)56%
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1/5
 
"When a war is going down, why are the king and his fiercest lieutenants taking a time-out to attend to the lovesick?" -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 12, 2006
 
Tristan & Isolde (2006)32%
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3.5/5
 
"Certain characters and their particular pains become so engrossing in their 10-minute bits that it's sad to see them go." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Jan 8, 2006
 
Nine Lives (2005)75%
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2.5/5
 
"I’ve little doubt that Swicord and Marshall have produced an accurate account of the geisha lifestyle, but I’m not sure that it feels like a terribly authentic one." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 31, 2005
 
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)35%
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3/5
 
"There are just too many damn characters, with the best ones taking a backseat to the dullish love quadrangle." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 18, 2005
 
The Family Stone (2005)53%
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2.5/5
 
"This is a Hallmark movie with high production values -- and so what? It’s gently funny and genuinely good-hearted." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 6, 2005
 
Christmas in the Clouds (2005)69%
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4/5
 
"It’s the sort of film that’s bound to be labeled modest, but it packs a hefty emotional wallop." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 6, 2005
 
The Squid and the Whale (2005)94%
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2/5
 
"This is second-rate Hallström, drama plus whimsy that, when rubbed together, creates not friction and fire, but a nubbing-down of both elements." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Dec 6, 2005
 
Bee Season (2005)41%
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3.5/5
 
"[Hoffman's] performance is undeniably great. Everything else -- solid, satisfying though it may be -- falls short of that greatness." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 30, 2005
 
Capote (2005)91%
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0/5
 
"Frequently offensive and doggedly disgusting." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 29, 2005
 
Waiting... (2005)31%
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3.5/5
 
Click here to read article -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 15, 2005
 
Thumbsucker (2005)71%
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2.5/5
 
"The Greatest Game never thrills on an emotional level the way the best of sports films -- a Hoosiers, say -- can, but it’s a satisfying entertainment nonetheless." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 2, 2005
 
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)62%
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2.5/5
 
Click here to read article -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 2, 2005
 
The Adventures of Felix (2001)69%
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3.5/5
 
"Evinces the kind of swashbuckling bonhomie that made so many of us fall in love with the original Star Wars films, a love that was mightily tested by George Lucas’ humorless prequels." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 2, 2005
 
Serenity (2005)82%
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4.5/5
 
"A riot of sight and sound that, however baffling, has an irresistible, elemental pull." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Sep 24, 2005
 
2046 (2005)84%
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2.5/5
 
"Showalter’s Elliot, self-described as the kind of guy who gets hay fever just raking the leaves, never breaks out of the Baxter cliché. Frankly, he makes a pretty good case for why the sad sack never gets the girl." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Sep 18, 2005
 
The Baxter (2005)30%
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4/5
 
"The sum is something deeply profound: about awkwardness, culture clash, failed connections, and -- ultimately -- the strength that comes from surviving a trial by fire." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Sep 4, 2005
 
Junebug (2005)87%
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0.5/5
 
"Simpson steals the show -- which, admittedly, isn’t saying much considering her stiffest competition comes by way of a skateboarding bulldog." -- Austin Chronicle
Posted Sep 4, 2005
 
Undiscovered (2005)6%

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