Kimberley Jones

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Revew: Mondovino
Mondovino
Sprawling documentary about the globalization of the wine industry is ambitious but frequently directionless – for true connoisseurs only.

Movie Review, June 10, 2005

Revew: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
For a movie about magic pants, this film shows a surprising level of sophistication – in its performances, its production values, and its emotional maturity.

Movie Review, June 3, 2005

DVDs
2046
The latest from Wong Kar Wai is slated for a U.S. Sony Classics theatrical release in August, but for those who've wearied of waiting, Netflix, as well as local independent stores, is offering a no-frills DVD of the film

Screens, May 27, 2005

Revew: Madagascar
Madagascar
Animated zoo animals head back to the wild

Movie Review, May 27, 2005

Revew: Head-On
Head-On
The marriage of two Turks who meet while in a German psychiatric hospital grows from a relationship of convenience into a genuine love affair.

Movie Review, May 20, 2005

Revew: Dear Frankie
Dear Frankie
An ad hoc dad turns out to be far better than the real thing in this sentimental Scottish yarn.

Movie Review, April 15, 2005

Revew: Melinda and Melinda
Melinda and Melinda
Woody Allen literally imagines a scenario as both a comedy and a tragedy, but we can't understand why half of this movie isn't at least amusing.

Movie Review, April 1, 2005

Out Takes
Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
SXSW might be over and done with, but our coverage isn't quite yet: reviews and photos

Screens, March 25, 2005

Revew: Ice Princess
Ice Princess
This refreshingly femme-centric tale advocates on behalf of physics, feminism, and athleticism.

Movie Review, March 25, 2005

SXSW Film Reviews
Kissing On the Mouth

Screens, March 18, 2005

SXSW Film Reviews
Cavite

Screens, March 18, 2005

Revew: Gunner Palace
Gunner Palace
Uday Hussein's former pleasure palace is now home to an American artillery regiment, whose members we get to know from their poolside antics to their far more sobering responsibilities of patrolling Baghdad.

Movie Review, March 18, 2005

Revew: Robots
Robots
There are no great animation advance in Robots, but neither is it a return to The Ice Age.

Movie Review, March 11, 2005

Revew: The Sea Inside
The Sea Inside
Moving chronicle of the real-life 30-year battle waged by paraplegic Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem) to end his life.

Movie Review, Feb. 25, 2005

The Assassination of Richard Nixon
First-time director Niels Mueller tells "the mad story of a true man" in this tragic portrait of Sam Bicke, who tried to fly an airplane into the White House in 1974.

Movie Review, Jan. 21, 2005

Revew: In Good Company
In Good Company
In Good Company is a sincere but serviceable-at-best dramedy from Paul Weitz, one-half of the fraternal team that has already brought us two studies about the human male: American Pie and About a Boy.

Movie Review, Jan. 14, 2005

Revew: House of Flying Daggers
House of Flying Daggers
The swooning visuals, the expert choreography, the teasing love story, and the puzzle-piece plot all combine to provide this martial arts movie with the spirit of a star-cross'd swashbuckler.

Movie Review, Jan. 14, 2005

DVD Watch
La Dolce Vita
Decadence, perhaps inevitably, dates itself: Fellini's much-censored 'La Dolce Vita' no longer shocks in its depiction of upper-class excess and listless living the way it did upon release in 1960, but it's a gorgeous artifact, nonetheless

Screens, Dec. 31, 2004

Revew: A Very Long Engagement
A Very Long Engagement
The director of Amélie reunites with that film's star, Audrey Tautou, for this World War One love story.

Movie Review, Dec. 24, 2004

Revew: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Bill Murray won't get the elusive Oscar for this one – for all its visual majesty, The Life Aquatic is too slight – but the film is nevertheless a funny, bewildering, and giddy spectacle.

Movie Review, Dec. 24, 2004

M
Gift guide

Screens, Dec. 17, 2004

Revew: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Thankfully, the dark tone of the beloved childrens books is carried over to the screen, and the terrific performances and production design provide extra lift.

Movie Review, Dec. 17, 2004

Revew: Kinsey
Kinsey
Kinsey enshrines the scientist at the expense of a more rigorous and more profound scrutiny.

Movie Review, Nov. 26, 2004

Revew: Undertow
Undertow
Cross-pollinate the arthouse film with B-movie backwoods gothic, and you get something like Undertow’s peculiar fusion of high and low culture.

Movie Review, Nov. 12, 2004

Revew: Alfie
Alfie
Jude Law's new Alfie is less tramp and more scamp: the modern metrosexual.

Movie Review, Nov. 5, 2004

Revew: I Heart Huckabees
I Heart Huckabees
An existential comedy, to be sure, but in the end this movie quite happily tips toward being and everythingness.

Movie Review, Oct. 8, 2004

Revew: She Hate Me
She Hate Me
Spike Lee strikes out with his new "joint" about an unemployed whistle-blower who makes a living impregnating sperm-deprived lesbians.

Movie Review, Oct. 1, 2004

Revew: Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things
Actor and author Stephen Fry turns director for this colorful group snapshot of monied revelers in 1930s London.

Movie Review, Sept. 24, 2004

Revew: Wimbledon
Wimbledon
A terribly tender, good-hearted romantic comedy from across the pond.

Movie Review, Sept. 17, 2004

Mean Creek
A kinder, gentler Bully.

Movie Review, Sept. 17, 2004

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