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Kimberley Jones

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Publications:: Anchorage Press , Austin Chronicle

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/5	35%	Immortals (2011)	" The Greek myths, of course, will endure. The same cannot be said for Singh's silly, self-serious, instantly forgettable, and inaptly named Immortals." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 18, 2011
2.5/5	69%	A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)	" Cho and Penn's genial rapport, and the picturesque three-dimensioning of plumes of pot smoke and cocaine flurries? Sure. But those pleasures are fleeting -- gone, if you will, with the weed." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 11, 2011
3/5	73%	Like Crazy (2011)	" There's no question that the actors and filmmakers have fashioned a compelling (if unformed) love story of a certain age -- which is not to be confused for a love story for the ages." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 11, 2011
1/5	36%	In Time (2011)	" It's all just big-budget dress-up in a futurescape that reeks of phoniness." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 4, 2011
3.5/5	69%	Tower Heist (2011)	" Alert to the righteous rage of the 99%-ers and canny about how to mine that rage for laughs, Tower Heist is like Ocean's Eleven meets class consciousness." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 3, 2011
2/5	24%	The Three Musketeers (2011)	" Have we retained nothing of the lessons of Hudson Hawk? Like that early Nineties comical disaster, The Three Musketeers hinges on the secret machinations of Leonardo da Vinci." — Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 28, 2011
3.5/5	75%	The Names of Love (2011)	" What is so surprising -- even exhilarating -- about The Names of Love is that it shucks off the desultory roadblocks that engine the modern romantic comedy." — Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 21, 2011
2/5	40%	The Big Year (2011)	" In some alternate universe, a much better version of The Big Year exists, one that embraces the essential, insular weirdness and romantic fanaticism of the birding community it chronicles." — Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 21, 2011
3/5	82%	The Way (2011)	" The Way never arrives anywhere you couldn't see coming a mile away, but it does so with such empathy that its conclusions feel comforting rather than overly predictable." — Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 14, 2011
1.5/5	67%	Shut Up Little Man! (2011)	" Bate's facile and dispiriting documentary never makes a case for why this particular slice of audio verité required resurrecting from the graveyard of pop culture arcana." — Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 7, 2011
2/5	25%	Killer Elite (2011)	" The overlong, perfunctory Killer Elite is simply a series of (reasonably well-choreographed) assassination sequences." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 30, 2011
4/5	93%	50/50 (2011)	" Mostly it's just terribly funny and sad and beautifully acted and terrifically feel-good for being, you know, a cancer comedy." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 29, 2011
	60%	Cherry (2010)	" Despite some tonal inconsistencies and ill-fitting stabs at whimsy, all-around good performances, Fine's snappy script, and Michael Hoskins' original illustrations elevate Cherry into a sensitively felt and fundamentally sweet coming-of-age pic." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 26, 2011
3.5/5	82%	Incendiary: The Willingham Case (2011)	" You know what they say: Everything's bigger in Texas, including the irrational hostility toward science, toward learning, toward temperance, as Mims and Bailey's well-made, deeply disheartening film demonstrates." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 23, 2011
3.5/5	82%	Life, Above All (2011)	" What makes it bearable but also beautiful and stirring is the central performance by the preteen, first-time actor Khomotso Manyaka." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 23, 2011
3/5	89%	Crime After Crime (2011)	" On technical merits, Crime After Crime isn't a great film. But the story it chronicles is important, and its emotional impact is undeniable." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 16, 2011
0/5	0%	Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011)	" Nothing to see here, kids." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 16, 2011
4/5	93%	Drive (2011)	" I can't remember the last time I felt so seduced by a film." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 15, 2011
2.5/5	17%	I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)	" Too much time and energy is directed toward that go-nowhere story, wasting the film's best asset, which is the low-key, lived-in rapport between Parker and Kinnear." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 15, 2011
2.5/5	25%	Apollo 18 (2011)	" Apollo 18 is an intriguing, if never enthralling, fusion of period space-flight procedural, conspiracy theory, and monster movie." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 9, 2011
0.5/5	16%	Shark Night 3D (2011)	" Not content to restrict itself to an exercise in "When Nature Attacks," the filmmakers take a hard, ugly turn into torture-porn territory." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 9, 2011
3.5/5	92%	Senna (2011)	" Undeniably gripping stuff." — Austin Chronicle Posted Aug 26, 2011
1/5	57%	Redemption Road (2011)	" Jefferson has nowhere to go but up -- and eventually he gets there (note the title) -- but, boy, does the getting there take its sweet time." — Austin Chronicle Posted Aug 26, 2011
1.5/5	60%	Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (2011)	" Hardcore Gleeks will probably thrill at this 3-D concert film, but the more casual viewer, drawn to the Fox TV show's snarky and sweet storylines and its campy aesthetic, won't find much to chew on here." — Austin Chronicle Posted Aug 19, 2011
3/5	36%	One Day (2011)	" That -- the illumination of our limitations, our awful habitualness -- probably wasn't the effect this wannabe-epic of romantic yearning was going for, but it's a considerable accomplishment nevertheless." — Austin Chronicle Posted Aug 19, 2011
2/5	72%	The Future (2011)	" The Future is a drab dramedy about thirtysomethings flailing about for self-definition." — Austin Chronicle Posted Aug 12, 2011
2.5/5	76%	The Help (2011)	" It has an overmodest debutante's aversion to any ugliness." — Austin Chronicle Posted Aug 11, 2011
2.5/5	91%	Tabloid (2011)	" Morris has found a real character in McKinney, but to what end, I couldn't say." — Austin Chronicle Posted Aug 5, 2011
2.5/5	25%	The Change-Up (2011)	" Just about everything in this instantly forgettable but intermittently funny movie could be summed up as "no better and no worse."" — Austin Chronicle Posted Aug 5, 2011
2.5/5	79%	Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)	" The final conflict is so protracted as to comfortably accommodate a bathroom break. Don't worry. You won't miss anything you haven't seen before." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 30, 2011
2.5/5	44%	Cowboys & Aliens (2011)	" Cowboys & Aliens is terribly generic -- and mostly joyless, too." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 28, 2011
3.5/5	90%	Winnie the Pooh (2011)	" Winnie the Pooh doesn't reinvent the wheel, just gives it an affectionate spin, and that is no more and no less than what one would hope from a family reunion." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 22, 2011
3/5	71%	Friends With Benefits (2011)	" As in Will Gluck's directorial breakthrough, the more ambitious Easy A, he leans too hard on pop-culture touchstones to carry the comedy." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 22, 2011
4/5	89%	The Trip (2011)	" Terrific stuff." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 15, 2011
3.5/5	96%	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011)	" Part 2 is never not good, but that's small comfort when anticipating greatness." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 14, 2011
2.5/5	38%	Monte Carlo (2011)	" Writer/director Bezucha inefficiently draws out this first act. In the process, he encourages expectations of a more earnest, grounded-in-reality picture than the one Monte Carlo morphs into when it hard-turns into mistaken-identity whimsy." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 8, 2011
0/5	14%	Zookeeper (2011)	" I'm not gonna sugarcoat this: Movies don't have to be this bad." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 8, 2011
2.5/5	44%	Bad Teacher (2011)	" Its trash-can humor is tasteless, no doubt, but hey, that doesn't make it unpalatable." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 1, 2011
3/5	79%	Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011)	" Page One is most compelling as a moving-picture portrait of the prickly personalities at the media desk." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 1, 2011
4/5	84%	Beginners (2011)	" Beginners pays tender tribute to that imprinting process, but also, quite dazzlingly, makes a person sincerely believe in the possibility of rebirth." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jun 24, 2011
0.5/5	18%	The Art of Getting By (2011)	" The Art of Getting By premiered at Sundance in January as Homework, a title that more accurately reflects the arduousness of sitting still through this flaccid, endlessly irksome coming-of-age drama." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jun 16, 2011
3/5	88%	X-Men: First Class (2011)	" It's all vastly superior to Brett Ratner's scorched-earth X-Men: The Last Stand, of course. But new blood and swinging Sixties milieu aside, X-Men: First Class never finds a fresh way to sell the same message we've been hearing since the first X-Men." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jun 10, 2011
4/5	93%	Midnight in Paris (2011)	" Considering Allen hasn't made an unqualified success since 1999's Sweet and Lowdown, it's easy to shrug off Midnight in Paris' occasional fumble when weighed against so much cleverness and canniness and, bien sûr, irresistible charm." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jun 10, 2011
3/5	——	Building Hope ()	" It's hard to know if Building Hope should be evaluated as a traditional documentary or as a nonprofit promotional tool. What I do know is this: If you don't well up at least once during this unwaveringly uplifting story, you might be a little dead inside" — Austin Chronicle Posted Jun 8, 2011
2.5/5	59%	The First Grader (2011)	" There are, to be sure, foregone conclusions in any kind of inspirational story of this ilk, but British filmmaker Justin Chadwick is weirdly keen on deflecting all drama." — Austin Chronicle Posted May 27, 2011
3/5	99%	Bill Cunningham New York (2011)	" While certainly an affectionate and admiring portrait, Bill Cunningham New York, by its end, provides no revelations and left this viewer, at least, puzzling." — Austin Chronicle Posted May 20, 2011
2.5/5	——	Go for It! (2011)	" Earnest and sympathetic but unsophisticated." — Austin Chronicle Posted May 20, 2011
4/5	90%	Bridesmaids (2011)	" In an age of doggedly unambitious comedy, one marvels at the finesse these first-time screenwriters and director Feig bring to marrying raunch, romantic comedy, and the tested but ever-true bond between women." — Austin Chronicle Posted May 12, 2011
3.5/5	86%	Meek's Cutoff (2011)	" This revisionist Western -- intellectually, aesthetically, and narratively absorbing -- rattles to the bone, but never quite rends the heart." — Austin Chronicle Posted May 6, 2011
3/5	71%	Echotone (2011)	" Appropriately, great care has been taken with the sound design, but even more striking is Robert Garza's cinematography, especially as his camera hops a ride on Downtown's many construction cranes to document a dazzling city in transition." — Austin Chronicle Posted May 6, 2011
2.5/5	15%	Something Borrowed (2011)	" Only in the movies would the adorable Ginnifer Goodwin consistently be cast as the plain girl." — Austin Chronicle Posted May 5, 2011
1/5	48%	Super (2011)	" Super is a tonal hash, awkwardly skipping beats from bleak to boisterous, cartoonish to gruesome, and the actors, too, seem to be playing at different speeds, with Page's insufferable screechiness poorly squaring with Wilson's glum poker face." — Austin Chronicle Posted Apr 29, 2011
1.5/5	61%	Water for Elephants (2011)	" The love triangle that determines Water for Elephants' dark trajectory is just as joyless and wanly dramatized." — Austin Chronicle Posted Apr 29, 2011
1/5	34%	Prom (2011)	" These are boys and girls on their very best behavior, which doesn't sound like any prom you or I remember." — Austin Chronicle Posted Apr 28, 2011
0.5/5	37%	I Am (2011)	" It's hard to decide what rankles most: what an astonishing monument to Shadyac's self-absorption I Am is, or how flat-out bad -- incompetent, even -- the filmmaking is." — Austin Chronicle Posted Apr 22, 2011
3.5/5	88%	Even the Rain (Meme La Pluie) (2011)	" This ambitious, cycloramic narrative about a Spanish film crew attempting to mount a revisionist history of Christopher Columbus amid citizen unrest in Bolivia is so potent it nearly succeeds even as a vacuum sits squarely at its center." — Austin Chronicle Posted Apr 15, 2011
2.5/5	94%	Win Win (2011)	" McCarthy has established himself as a craftsman of conventionally quirky pictures that are entirely about ingratiating themselves with the audience. Within those limited parameters, Win Win works." — Austin Chronicle Posted Apr 8, 2011
0.5/5	23%	Sucker Punch (2011)	" A creatively bankrupt succession of fetishy bromides -- steampunk, Asimov, medieval times, and (personal fave!) a woman in a sailor suit, sucking on a lollipop and calling it feminism 'cause she carries a gun, too." — Austin Chronicle Posted Apr 1, 2011
2/5	47%	Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules (2011)	" Wimpy Kid's filmmakers have gone off-book, so to speak, to inflect Greg with a surprising cruel streak." — Austin Chronicle Posted Apr 1, 2011
2.5/5	72%	Paul (2011)	" Paul is offensive solely for being so underachieving." — Austin Chronicle Posted Mar 25, 2011
3/5	83%	The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)	" The Lincoln Lawyer has very little soul to speak of, but it's got swagger to burn." — Austin Chronicle Posted Mar 25, 2011
0/5	34%	Hall Pass (2011)	" Scratch out "Hall," and just ... pass." — Austin Chronicle Posted Mar 4, 2011
2/5	56%	Unknown (2011)	" This is no more (but no less?) than what we have rather oddly come to expect from Neeson in his late period (Taken, The A-Team) -- not quite a riddle wrapped in an enigma, just a paycheck gig cloaked in an actioner, moonlighting as a travelogue." — Austin Chronicle Posted Feb 25, 2011
1/5	32%	I Am Number Four (2011)	" I Am Number Four doesn't even begin to start making sense until at least 20 minutes in, but as the pieces fall into place, the thinness of this particular fiction comes into clear focus." — Austin Chronicle Posted Feb 17, 2011
4/5	100%	The Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation (2011)	" Teddy Newton's "Day & Night" is a six-minute spot of magic." — Austin Chronicle Posted Feb 11, 2011
3.5/5	83%	Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts (2012)	" Catholicism and kids: Narratively speaking, it's the gift that keeps on giving" — Austin Chronicle Posted Feb 11, 2011
0.5/5	56%	Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)	" Novelty alone does not a good idea make, and in the case of Gnomeo and Juliet, it's rather a disturbing, even fetishy one." — Austin Chronicle Posted Feb 11, 2011
4.5/5	93%	Another Year (2010)	" Don't be thrown by the gentle stringed score or the automatic balm of watching rumply British people in cozy sweaters: Another Year is a brutalizer." — Austin Chronicle Posted Feb 4, 2011
2/5	67%	The Company Men (2011)	" Yes, these former company men sigh a lot, occasionally raise their voices, get drunk and throw rocks at corporate HQ, but there's nothing that feels like real rage, nothing that even remotely approximates the spiritual decimation of a termination." — Austin Chronicle Posted Feb 4, 2011
2/5	49%	No Strings Attached (2011)	" No Strings Attached has a hell of a find: a nervous beauty who can precision-time a pratfall and win an audience's heart just by biting her lip. Too bad Lake Bell's not playing the lead." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jan 28, 2011
3/5	22%	Country Strong (2011)	" Hedlund's got a hell of a voice, rotgut-ragged, and whether he's crooning or wooing, whatever he's selling, and no matter how cornpone, I'm buying." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jan 14, 2011
3/5	88%	Blue Valentine (2010)	" Moments, as affecting as they are, can't surmount the overworkshopped feel of the whole film." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jan 14, 2011
2.5/5	38%	Casino Jack (2010)	" Casino Jack moves with such manic determination it all but reaches out from the screen and shakes you by the collar: "See, movies about lobbyists can be fun!"" — Austin Chronicle Posted Jan 7, 2011
2/5	32%	How Do You Know (2010)	" Brooks never supplies a definitive answer to the open-ended title, but I think most everybody would agree you just know when it's right. And in the case of How Do You Know, when it's not." — Austin Chronicle Posted Dec 17, 2010
4/5	87%	Black Swan (2010)	" A sumptuously unnerving, singular experience." — Austin Chronicle Posted Dec 10, 2010
4/5	79%	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010)	" Gone are the sweet hijinks at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, as well as any "hey, look at me!" magical inventions; Deathly Hallows is all business -- taut, fraught, and fearsome." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 18, 2010
3/5	93%	Boxing Gym (2010)	" The soundscape, too, is endlessly fascinating, a layer cake of squeaks, grunts, gasps, and rattling chains that, combined, catches a rhythm that sounds an awful lot like song." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 12, 2010
2/5	66%	Tamara Drewe (2010)	" Tamara Drewe's revolving affairs may be the film's raison d'être, but it plays like kids' stuff compared to their adult romancing -- frumpy and halting and more true to life than the rest of the film's forced fancifulness." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 12, 2010
2.5/5	55%	Morning Glory (2010)	" Michell's camera swoops, the soundtrack swells, and that pretty little dress flaps artfully. Sensible suits, you see, don't waft in the wind." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 10, 2010
3.5/5	81%	Four Lions (2010)	" A comedy of errors and terrors? Who woulda thunk it?" — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 5, 2010
3/5	73%	Megamind (2010)	" While it is never anything less than vibrant and exceedingly clever, it is also a rather slight thing for such mega-sized proportions." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 4, 2010
4/5	72%	Monsters (2010)	" A startlingly original and haunting take on our ageless fear of otherness." — Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 29, 2010
3.5/5	51%	Stone (2010)	" Mostly this is a tense, portentous, and provocative piece." — Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 22, 2010
1/5	45%	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)	" I couldn't get away from these shrill, complaining people fast enough." — Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 15, 2010
3/5	71%	Never Let Me Go (2010)	" It's Knightley, with her slow waking to bitterness, who stuns in a secondary role." — Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 8, 2010
3.5/5	58%	It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)	" It's Kind of a Funny Story manages to affirm the good things in life without ever whitewashing the bad." — Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 8, 2010
4/5	96%	The Social Network (2010)	" History as we know it is still unfurling, and The Social Network is that rare film that has something -- not yet definitive, but certainly provocative -- to say about it." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 30, 2010
1.5/5	16%	Alpha and Omega (2010)	" The 3-D angle is the only one I can identify to justify Alpha and Omega not going straight to DVD, but it's a double-edged sword." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 25, 2010
3.5/5	90%	Lebanon (Levanon) (2010)	" Brutally real-feeling." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 24, 2010
2/5	17%	You Again (2010)	" You Again poses an interesting question -- what if our long-ago bullies were just as psychically scarred by the tormenting as their tormented victims were? -- but that curveball is buried under a lot of gunk." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 24, 2010
3.5/5	55%	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)	" An enlivening and rather wickedly entertaining take on the occasional angels -- but mostly demons -- that ran the country into financial ruin." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 24, 2010
3.5/5	85%	Easy A (2010)	" It's a keeper." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 16, 2010
3.5/5	94%	The Town (2010)	" Affleck is affecting as the quiet-spoken, conflicted tough guy, but it's in his scenes with Hall that he catches your breath." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 16, 2010
3/5	81%	Anton Chekhov's The Duel (2010)	" A compassionate picture -- lovely to look at, too -- but it never achieves any real immediacy, or urgency, even with the title's pistol-waving." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 10, 2010
0/5	29%	The Virginity Hit (2010)	" Repugnant." — Austin Chronicle Posted Sep 10, 2010
4/5	81%	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)	" Wright takes the tools of a bloodless medium, the video game, and crafts an action-comedy with a true-blue beating heart. So what if it's built on 8-bit?" — Austin Chronicle Posted Aug 13, 2010
2.5/5	37%	Eat Pray Love (2010)	" An ambitious but confused and frustrating film that circles near catharsis, occasionally brushing its hem, but that's about as close as it ever gets." — Austin Chronicle Posted Aug 12, 2010
2.5/4	55%	Flipped (2010)	" It's Reiner's best film in a decade ... but just look at the competition..." — Austin Chronicle Posted Aug 6, 2010
2/5	46%	Step Up 3-D (2010)	" Sure, it's nifty enough to see dust particles swirling or hands swooshing at you, but mostly the 3-D muddles the invention and exquisiteness of the film's raison d'être: the dancing." — Austin Chronicle Posted Aug 5, 2010
3.5/5	70%	Ramona and Beezus (2010)	" Refreshingly anti-princess and sweet without degrading into sugary, Ramona and Beezus animates Ramona's frequent flights of fancy with DIY-like sequences that literalize, quite charmingly, how a kid colors the world." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 30, 2010
2.5/5	69%	The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2010)	" Alfredson, who replaces original director Niels Arden Oplev, has crafted a film that is heavy on atmosphere but thin everywhere else." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 16, 2010
3.5/5	86%	Inception (2010)	" Surely the most intellectually and viscerally engaging action film in years." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 15, 2010
1.5/5	9%	Marmaduke (2010)	" [It] sounds like the makings of a totally rad John Hughes movie. Instead, it's an intermittently amusing parable about an outcast's ascension, as performed by a pack of digitally manipulated dogs. Next." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 6, 2010
2.5/5	47%	The A-Team (2010)	" The A-Team is a product that begs to be consumed alongside a jumbo tub of movie-theatre popcorn, complete with the butter-slick, tummy-sick aftereffects that are sure to leave a longer-lasting impression than anything mayhem maestro Carnahan cooks up..." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jul 6, 2010
2.5/5	49%	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)	" The supposedly epic battle the entire film builds toward -- the single action set-piece -- is a ho-hummer. Fire and ice, turns out, was an oversell: Think tepid tap water instead." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jun 30, 2010
3.5/5	91%	Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work (2010)	" An entirely sympathetic portrait of the artist at an advancing age." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jun 25, 2010
2/5	52%	Knight & Day (2010)	" Overly cute and overconvinced of its own cool." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jun 24, 2010
3.5/5	96%	Sweetgrass (2009)	" 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." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jun 18, 2010
4/5	99%	Toy Story 3 (2010)	" Toy Story 3 inspires an uncomplicated adoration: the kind we reserve for our best-loved if ill-worn -- and even occasionally misplaced -- childhood playmates." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jun 17, 2010
3.5/5	93%	Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders (2010)	" Utterly engrossing." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jun 11, 2010
3/5	86%	Pranzo di Ferragosto (Mid-August Lunch) (2009)	" These women! These women are marvelous." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jun 4, 2010
1.5/5	47%	MacGruber (2010)	" The film goes by in a wash of uninspired action and unmemorable comedy; the daffy, mock ingenuity of the original sketch is long gone, and MacGruber's ineffectualness has degraded into flat-out incompetence, with far fewer comedic rewards." — Austin Chronicle Posted May 27, 2010
3/5	83%	Casino Jack And The United States Of Money (2010)	" 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." — Austin Chronicle Posted May 21, 2010
2.5/4	——	A Surprise In Texas (2010)	" A Surprise in Texas never satisfies in the way a truly immersive competition doc, such as Spellbound, does, but for classical music enthusiasts, it's still an entertaining peek behind the curtain of a high-stakes, high-wire three weeks." — Austin Chronicle Posted May 14, 2010
3/5	40%	Letters to Juliet (2010)	" What's so awful about taking a breather? It's enough to bask in the pastoral prettiness and the unexpected harmony of Seyfried and Redgrave." — Austin Chronicle Posted May 14, 2010
4/5	74%	The Exploding Girl (2010)	" Restless audiences may itch for more plot, for the kind of fiery dramatics that typify young love in the movies, but hold the explosives: There's tender drama, too, in the possibilities of a hand-hold." — Austin Chronicle Posted May 14, 2010
2/5	76%	Killing Kasztner (2009)	" There are deeply complex issues afoot here -- most especially the question of how a country and a people decides who will be its heroes -- and this amateurish film, with its tabloid-TV zooms and hokey visual metaphors, simply isn't up to such complexity." — Austin Chronicle Posted May 7, 2010
2.5/5	81%	City Island (2010)	" It has a basic goodness of heart that counteracts, if not entirely cancels out, the film's broadness and busyness." — Austin Chronicle Posted Apr 16, 2010
3.5/5	84%	The Art Of The Steal (2010)	" While The Art of the Steal makes a very convincing -- even bone-chilling -- argument... the film fails to even ponder why easier access to some of the world's greatest art treasures might not be an entirely bad thing." — Austin Chronicle Posted Apr 16, 2010
2.5/5	67%	The Yellow Handkerchief (2010)	" When The Yellow Handkerchief finally hooks into the meat of Hamill's source story, the narrative tension puts enough wind in the film's sails to arrive at its corny but sentimentally satisfying conclusion." — Austin Chronicle Posted Apr 2, 2010
4/4	89%	Red Riding: 1983 (2009)	" There's still a great deal of satisfaction to be had in both the resolution of the plot's many mysteries and the thematic throughlines of the three films." — Austin Chronicle Posted Mar 26, 2010
3.5/4	90%	Red Riding: 1980 (2010)	" 1980 isn't a placeholder by any means, but it suffers by its middle placement, lacking the newness of the first film or the cumulative satisfactions of the last." — Austin Chronicle Posted Mar 26, 2010
3.5/5	74%	Greenberg (2010)	" Baumbach reminds us, like golden-days Mazursky did, of the aching elusiveness but absolute essentialness of human connection." — Austin Chronicle Posted Mar 26, 2010
4/5	100%	Red Riding: 1974 (2009)	" This is a noir, the kind where the good-for-nothing gumshoe (here, an investigative reporter) has a habit of getting his face bashed in, usually on account of a girl." — Austin Chronicle Posted Mar 19, 2010
1.5/5	11%	Cry of the Owl (2009)	" Considine -- a UK actor who's usually great -- rubs the Midlands out of his accent so vigorously he winds up tone-deaf and textureless." — Austin Chronicle Posted Mar 19, 2010
1.5/5	58%	She's Out of My League (2010)	" Instantly forgettable." — Austin Chronicle Posted Mar 12, 2010
3.5/5	28%	Remember Me (2010)	" Pattinson gets to sink his teeth into something more than posturing." — Austin Chronicle Posted Mar 11, 2010
4/5	90%	Fish Tank (2010)	" Fish Tank isn't an easy watch - it's like two hours of ache - but there are rich rewards to be had in the many ways Arnold and her terrific team rend us to and fro." — Austin Chronicle Posted Mar 5, 2010
2/5	51%	Alice in Wonderland (2010)	" Considering what a to-do this massively budgeted entertainment is, that doesn't add up to much. "Curiouser and curiouser," indeed." — Austin Chronicle Posted Mar 4, 2010
4/5	70%	The Last Station (2010)	" A work of compassion, modulated mournfulness, and unchecked joy." — Austin Chronicle Posted Feb 12, 2010
1/5	18%	Valentine's Day (2010)	" Aggressively unfunny and unromantic." — Austin Chronicle Posted Feb 11, 2010
1.5/5	28%	Dear John (2010)	" This is a muzzy picture through and through, from Hallström's softy direction and Jamie Linden's humorless script and slurry plotting to Tatum's portrayal of John." — Austin Chronicle Posted Feb 4, 2010
4/5	88%	La Danse -- Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris (2009)	" An observational documentary that captures within the frame the totality and truth of the moment." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jan 29, 2010
3/5	66%	Youth in Revolt (2010)	" It's an enjoyable enough exercise in teen angst triumphing." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jan 8, 2010
3/5	67%	Daybreakers (2010)	" It's a little bit silly -- as is Dafoe's Kentucky-fried cowboy mechanic named Elvis -- but silly is fun. In fact, one wishes it were sillier still." — Austin Chronicle Posted Jan 7, 2010
3.5/5	76%	The Young Victoria (2009)	" The Young Victoria is a very well-made if not especially memorable picture, moving with all the grace and steadfastness of a waltz Victoria and Albert share, but absent any urgency or anything particularly exclamatory." — Austin Chronicle Posted Dec 28, 2009
3.5/5	91%	Up in the Air (2009)	" Up in the Air isn't a challenging picture, certainly not a transportive one, but it is a well-crafted entertainment made for and about adults. Sometimes, well, that's good enough." — Austin Chronicle Posted Dec 18, 2009
3.5/5	85%	Me and Orson Welles (2009)	" Linklater has crafted an always genial and at times even joyful period charmer about that moment on the cusp: before a boy becomes a man and another man becomes a mythological figure." — Austin Chronicle Posted Dec 11, 2009
4/5	93%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" Is there any question that this is a Wes Anderson picture? Not a chance. Have we seen it all before? Not like this." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 25, 2009
3/5	66%	The Blind Side (2009)	" Hancock mostly restricts the story's scope to its heartwarming bits and begs off any serious investigation of race. The reason, of course, is that this isn't that kind of movie. But I couldn't help but wish that it were." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 20, 2009
3.5/5	78%	Bronson (2009)	" A figure this luridly fascinating, a personality this ludicrously outsized, warrants something more than your typical biopic." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 13, 2009
2/5	39%	Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)	" Krasinski re-creates the interviews using Wallace's original, but this isn't exactly a letter-of-the-law adaptation -- he tightens the interviews and defangs some of the language." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 13, 2009
3/5	52%	The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)	" Still, there is Clooney's deceptively layered performance, some startling bits of laugh-out-loud absurdity, and the not-at-all-negligible pleasure to be had in a cockeyed point of view." — Austin Chronicle Posted Nov 6, 2009
2/5	21%	Amelia (2009)	— Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 30, 2009
3.5/5	94%	Good Hair (2009)	" Hair is personal. It's also political." — Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 23, 2009
2/5	36%	New York, I Love You (2009)	— Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 16, 2009
4/5	73%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" I don't want to oversell the thing. It is, quite simply, something very special indeed." — Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 15, 2009
3/5	69%	Paris (2008)	" In this overpacked ensemble cast, it's Binoche you want to see more of." — Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 9, 2009
3/5	58%	The Invention of Lying (2009)	— Austin Chronicle Posted Oct 2, 2009

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