Rotten Tomatoes
Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes
Critics list

Kimberley Jones

Tomatometer-approved critic
Publications:

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story (2026) EDIT “Summer 2000 is deceptively light -- in the way it pulls into focus the four women’s different experiences, and how it articulates the magic in shared make-believe. So light, in fact, I felt my heart lift after 104 minutes in its company.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) 97% 3.5/5 EDIT “The effect is something like a series of living dioramas, with the viewer swiveling between tableaux and softly encouraged to make their own connections. ” – Austin Chronicle Mar 12, 2026 Full Review A Poet (2025) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “Mesa Soto initially mines wry humor from Oscar’s sad-sackness; he and editor Ricardo Saravia are especially good at scene transitions that land like a punchline, and the marvelous Rios – small of stature and existentially slumped – cuts a comical figure. ” – Austin Chronicle Feb 26, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 80% 3/5 EDIT “On the subject of parental loss, a fairly universal experience, H Is for Hawk’s insights read familiar but never epiphanic. The goshawk is the revelation. ” – Austin Chronicle Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 86% 3/5 EDIT “Bless its dear heart. I’m never gonna be mad at a movie for sticking its neck out. ” – Austin Chronicle Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 4.5/5 EDIT “The period detail is a marvel, the era’s music a most excellent groove, and the cast a top-to-bottom wowzer of interesting faces and eclectic bodies. ” – Austin Chronicle Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 87% 3.5/5 EDIT “Hamnet is at its best when exploring primal emotions, following the example of Agnes, with her elemental connection to the earth. ” – Austin Chronicle Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 4/5 EDIT “Trier’s films don’t treat depression like something that’s got to get fixed, or relegate the depression to a secondary character, othering it. Uniquely, depression feels first-person-lived in a Trier film. ” – Austin Chronicle Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Peter Hujar’s Day is a monument to the thrillingly mundane minutiae of living. I found it almost indescribably moving.” – Austin Chronicle Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 3/5 EDIT “Lawrence goes to some pretty dark places in her full-bodied rejection of domestic expectations. You’ll follow her there unquestioningly, just for the thrill of watching her set fire to everything around her.” – Austin Chronicle Nov 6, 2025 Full Review You're Dating a Narcissist! (2025) EDIT “Tomei is undeniable, and she and Bravo forge an easy, believable chemistry as mother and daughter. That bond, and the gorgeous boutique hotel where much of the film takes place, are the biggest draws here. ” – Austin Chronicle Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Urchin (2025) 96% 3/5 EDIT “There are no life lessons here, only an uncommonly focused look at one life.” – Austin Chronicle Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% 3/5 EDIT “White’s got plenty of practice playing someone with deep depression, but his Bruce is a distinct creation -- there’s no shouting, only terrible sadness. ” – Austin Chronicle Oct 22, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% 3.5/5 EDIT “Every sacred cow gets its neck slit here, and any conclusive answer to the he said/she said of it all takes a backseat to After the Hunt’s true ambition, which is to expose the overwhelming performativeness of this moment in time we’re in.” – Austin Chronicle Oct 17, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 3/5 EDIT “It’s a dead-serious cautionary tale and sincere call for de-escalation, dressed like a political thriller by a director who’s aces with action.” – Austin Chronicle Oct 9, 2025 Full Review All of You (2024) 72% 2.5/5 EDIT “Goldstein, better known for his comic work and coming off a wincing dramatic arc on Shrinking, has limited range but nestles into his sweet spot here, a combination of smirking and sincere, and the underrated Poots is magnetic.” – Austin Chronicle Sep 25, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 37% 2/5 EDIT “Strictly directing here, Kogonada injects visual interest throughout, but I wonder if that compartmentalization of job duties has something to do with why the film feels so stilted. ” – Austin Chronicle Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Eden (2024) 58% 2.5/5 EDIT “As a contained survivalist story, Eden holds the attention. But it's never transportive.” – Austin Chronicle Aug 21, 2025 Full Review Relay (2024) 82% 2.5/5 EDIT “This one’s not going into the conspiracy thriller pantheon, but for the duration of its tense, terse 112 minutes, it scratches the itch.” – Austin Chronicle Aug 21, 2025 Full Review It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) 98% 3/5 EDIT “Whatever the reason, it left me hungry for more. Then again, for Jeff Buckley fans, whatever it is, there will never be enough.” – Austin Chronicle Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% 3/5 EDIT “If there was ever any question, the answer is signed, sealed, and delivered here: Yeah, he's still got it.” – Austin Chronicle Aug 14, 2025 Full Review My Mother's Wedding (2023) 41% 2/5 EDIT “Tonally, My Mother’s Wedding careens from pure schmaltz to broad comedy to genuinely affecting meditation on grief’s staying power. ” – Austin Chronicle Aug 7, 2025 Full Review Sketch (2024) 95% 3.5/5 EDIT “Worley is just as invested in the emotional nuance of the story, which meets each of its grieving characters at their own speed and shows them a lot of grace.” – Austin Chronicle Aug 7, 2025 Full Review Folktales (2025) 85% 4/5 EDIT “Landscape, ancient and punishing; this rarefied air, 200 miles above the Arctic Circle; these young people, on the precipice of adulthood, learning the value of self-reliance and kindness – it all begs for the kind of soulful treatment Folktales delivers.” – Austin Chronicle Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Oh, Hi! (2025) 64% 3/5 EDIT “Oh, Hi! has plenty to say but is too tenderhearted for satire, and won’t admit to the inarguably psychotic behavior of its heroine to pursue the horror path Misery forged decades prior.” – Austin Chronicle Jul 24, 2025 Full Review
No Reviews Yet
Load More