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Kristin M. Jones

Kristin M. Jones's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Mahjong (1996) EDIT “When the cynicism that pervades “Mahjong” cracks, it reveals an abyss of pain.” – Wall Street Journal Aug 28, 2025 Full Review A Confucian Confusion (1994) EDIT “Full of mismatched relationships, rapacious business dealings and anxieties about the nature and value of art, the narrative is divided up by playful intertitles, with each chapter feeling like a turn of a kaleidoscope.” – Wall Street Journal Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Scarface (1932) 98% EDIT “Hawks’s Scarface still has the power to exhilarate and shock. It is a plunge into a bitter realm with its own rules and rhythms, where bullets fall like hard rain and leave holes like countless jagged stars. ” – Wall Street Journal Nov 14, 2024 Full Review Mean Streets (1973) 92% EDIT “For all its raw, exhilarating energy, it’s a film that can always break your heart.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 2023 Full Review Eight Deadly Shots (1972) EDIT “Out of many such small details, Niskanen built a devastating saga.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 31, 2023 Full Review The Guardians (2017) 92% EDIT “In Xavier Beauvois's latest feature, his understated, visually compelling storytelling unfolds with patient precision.” – Film Comment Magazine May 3, 2018 Full Review My Summer of Love (2004) 90% EDIT “Ryszard Lenczewski's superb cinematography effectively captures the rhythm of the girls' volatile interactions and growing obsession. His handheld camerawork has a quicksilver alertness.” – Film Comment Magazine Mar 20, 2018 Full Review Stalker (1979) 100% EDIT “There are no flying saucers in the great Russian director's haunting tale of a journey into the depths of a postapocalyptic landscape, but it offers visual splendor, as well as mysteries, portents and miracles.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 14, 2018 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1946) 96% EDIT “"Beauty and the Beast" remains a profound exploration of the human and animal worlds, light and darkness, and love and art.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 14, 2018 Full Review Morvern Callar (2002) 85% EDIT “While [Lynne] Ramsay's sensibility is entirely her own, it approaches the rawness of work by Nan Goldin or Richard Billingham.” – Film Comment Magazine Feb 14, 2018 Full Review Sixty Six (2006) 65% EDIT “Throughout Sixty Six, Klahr unleashes a dazzling array of visual ideas, deftly combined with sounds, silence, or music and all in the service of what he calls the film's "pop associational mindscape."” – Film Comment Magazine Feb 14, 2018 Full Review 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) 96% EDIT “[Christian] Mungiu has taken a leap forward into bold, focused storytelling.” – Film Comment Magazine Feb 14, 2018 Full Review Heal the Living (2016) 91% EDIT “Heal the Living assembles an array of sensitive performances, but it takes place on a more metaphysical plane. Its characters often seem to have stepped outside the normal flow of time.” – Film Comment Magazine Feb 14, 2018 Full Review The Innocents (2016) 95% EDIT “A measure of peace and joy is achieved at the end of Fontaine's film, but one wonders what scars remain.” – Film Comment Magazine Sep 6, 2016 Full Review The Decalogue (1989) 100% EDIT “As Piotr says in Dekalog: Five: "Everyone wonders if what they do has any meaning. I'm afraid that that meaning gets harder and harder to find." Dekalog challenges us to search for it in a complex world.” – Wall Street Journal Sep 1, 2016 Full Review Marguerite (2015) 95% EDIT “Beneath the antic plot and sentimental portrayal of her marriage is a moving portrait of a woman who searches for an audience and loses herself.” – Film Comment Magazine Mar 17, 2016 Full Review Time Out of Mind (2014) 80% EDIT “Time Out of Mind unfolds slowly, but mostly rewards the viewer's patience.” – Film Comment Magazine Sep 14, 2015 Full Review Eden (2014) 84% EDIT “Although Eden is not a comprehensive account of the emergence of the "French touch" sound, the film incorporates historical details and ephemera that evoke the texture of real life, such as the zine that gives the film its title.” – Film Comment Magazine May 7, 2015 Full Review Fish Tank (2009) 91% EDIT “[Andrea] Arnold has a knack for subtle details but also for portraying female characters whose natural warmth and energy have been muted by trauma or social isolation.” – Film Comment Magazine Sep 24, 2014 Full Review Abuse of Weakness (2013) 86% EDIT “It's hard to imagine an actress other than Huppert so artfully layering frailty and toughness, self-delusion and self-awareness, and her complex portrayal is an irresistible foil to Kool Shen's blank expressions and wounded swagger.” – Film Comment Magazine Jul 7, 2014 Full Review Infamous (2006) 75% EDIT “The other-and possibly greater-Capote pic about the geneiss of In Cold Blood” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 19, 2013 Full Review Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) 88% EDIT “Ultimately, it is mainly the electrifying performances that Kechiche presumably elicited from Seydoux and Exarchopoulos that make Blue Is the Warmest Color a memorable film, however flawed.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 12, 2013 Full Review Farewell, My Queen (2012) 93% EDIT “His portrait loses some of its eerie power through the ugly twist at the film's conclusion, but she remains a fascinating enigma, and touchingly human.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 5, 2013 Full Review Mother of George (2013) 91% EDIT “The poetic visuals create a disorienting sense of being at once immersed in the characters' world and kept at a distance.” – Film Comment Magazine Sep 10, 2013 Full Review Moonrise Kingdom (2012) 93% EDIT “The film is almost unfailingly funny, but it also has a rapt quality, as if we are viewing the events through Suzy's binoculars or reading the story under the covers by a flashlight.” – Film Comment Magazine May 16, 2012 Full Review
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