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Kristin M. Jones
Kristin M. Jones's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Wall Street Journal
Film Comment Magazine
Movies reviews only
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Eight Deadly Shots (1972) |
Out of many such small details, Niskanen built a devastating saga. - Wall Street Journal
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| Posted Mar 31, 2023
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The Guardians (2017) |
In Xavier Beauvois's latest feature, his understated, visually compelling storytelling unfolds with patient precision. - Film Comment Magazine
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| Posted May 03, 2018
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My Summer of Love (2004) |
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
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| Posted Mar 20, 2018
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Stalker (1979) |
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
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| Posted Feb 14, 2018
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Beauty and the Beast (1946) |
"Beauty and the Beast" remains a profound exploration of the human and animal worlds, light and darkness, and love and art. - Wall Street Journal
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| Posted Feb 14, 2018
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Morvern Callar (2002) |
While [Lynne] Ramsay's sensibility is entirely her own, it approaches the rawness of work by Nan Goldin or Richard Billingham. - Film Comment Magazine
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| Posted Feb 14, 2018
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Sixty Six (2006) |
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
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| Posted Feb 14, 2018
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) |
[Christian] Mungiu has taken a leap forward into bold, focused storytelling. - Film Comment Magazine
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| Posted Feb 14, 2018
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Heal the Living (2016) |
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
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| Posted Feb 14, 2018
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The Innocents (2016) |
A measure of peace and joy is achieved at the end of Fontaine's film, but one wonders what scars remain. - Film Comment Magazine
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| Posted Sep 06, 2016
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The Decalogue (1989) |
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
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| Posted Sep 01, 2016
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Marguerite (2015) |
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
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| Posted Mar 17, 2016
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Time Out of Mind (2014) |
Time Out of Mind unfolds slowly, but mostly rewards the viewer's patience. - Film Comment Magazine
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| Posted Sep 14, 2015
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Eden (2014) |
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
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| Posted May 07, 2015
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Fish Tank (2009) |
[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
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| Posted Sep 24, 2014
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Abuse of Weakness (2013) |
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
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| Posted Jul 07, 2014
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Infamous (2006) |
The other-and possibly greater-Capote pic about the geneiss of In Cold Blood - Film Comment Magazine
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| Posted Nov 19, 2013
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Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) |
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
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| Posted Nov 12, 2013
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Farewell, My Queen (2012) |
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
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| Posted Nov 05, 2013
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Mother of George (2013) |
The poetic visuals create a disorienting sense of being at once immersed in the characters' world and kept at a distance. - Film Comment Magazine
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| Posted Sep 10, 2013
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
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
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| Posted May 16, 2012
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