Oliver Jones
Oliver Jones's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
One to One: John & Yoko (2024)
89%
3.5/4
“Macdonald and Rice-Edwards have pieced together something of even greater value: more than a piece of mere reportage, they have crafted a true experience. ” –
Observer
Apr 9, 2025
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The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
97%
3/4
“The comic rhythm [Tim Key] shares with [Tom] Basden—a very precise iteration of entitled yet aggrieved—is wondrous, like a lo-fi Abbott and Costello. ” –
Observer
Mar 28, 2025
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Bob Trevino Likes It (2024)
95%
3/4
“As evidenced by the emotional acuity she shows in her first starring role, Ferreira has a long, Leguizamo-like career trajectory in front of her. ” –
Observer
Mar 21, 2025
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You're Cordially Invited (2025)
48%
2/4
“This is less an actual movie than something familiar processed in a way that is vaguely pleasing, with Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell both doing watered-down variations on characters they created in other films.
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Observer
Jan 31, 2025
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Nickel Boys (2024)
91%
4/4
“Director RaMell Ross’s bold reimagining of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is both lyrical and urgent. This is a movie worth returning to again and again.
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Observer
Dec 11, 2024
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The Piano Lesson (2024)
88%
3/4
“August Wilson's 1987 play is opened up in ways that that work—and some that don't—in this beautifully acted film adaptation.” –
Observer
Nov 25, 2024
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Heretic (2024)
91%
1.5/4
“As a housebound sadist menacing a pair of Mormon missionaries in the new horror film Heretic, Grant gives the least engaged and most profoundly joyless performance of his five-decade career.” –
Observer
Nov 13, 2024
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A Real Pain (2024)
96%
4/4
“As a director, Eisenberg holds a preternatural understanding of when to exhale when it all gets to be too much, whether it’s Benji’s antics, David’s brittleness or the enormity of the Holocaust. ” –
Observer
Oct 30, 2024
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Conclave (2024)
93%
3/4
“Ralph Fiennes is mesmerizing as a cardinal leading the process of choosing a new pope—which plays out like an Agatha Christie locked-room mystery.” –
Observer
Oct 23, 2024
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We Live in Time (2024)
79%
2.5/4
“Is Crowley’s soft scramble of a romantic drama—the Brooklyn director’s attempt to escape movie jail after The Goldfinch’s box office and critical drubbing—equally successful? Yes, but only in individual bites, not as a whole meal. ” –
Observer
Oct 11, 2024
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Saturday Night (2024)
78%
2.5/4
“A game and well-chosen gang of actors must rescue moments of truth from a cheesy script in this nostalgia drenched look at the first days of SNL.
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Observer
Oct 8, 2024
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Hold Your Breath (2024)
40%
2/4
“Sarah Paulson shines in this horror thriller set in 1930s Oklahoma. But the movie's compendium of tired horror tropes does not.” –
Observer
Oct 2, 2024
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Daughters (2024)
100%
3.5/4
“More than anything, Daughters—along with Greg Kwedar’s remarkable current release Sing Sing—speaks to the absolute societal and spiritual imperative of investing in rehabilitation, within prisons and outside their walls. ” –
Observer
Aug 19, 2024
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Dìdi (2024)
96%
4/4
“Set in the early days of social media's takeover, Sean Wang's debut feature about a Taiwanese American kid growing up in the East Bay perfectly captures the emotional jumble of boyhood.” –
Observer
Jul 27, 2024
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Touch (2024)
93%
3/4
“A widower retraces his youth and finds that devastating truths can lurk below even our fondest recollections in this romantic drama from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur.” –
Observer
Jul 12, 2024
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024)
67%
1.5/4
“This isn't an Eddie Murphy blockbuster. It's a prime example of a risk-averse mega-company using existing IP to hedge their bets on their investment.
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Observer
Jul 3, 2024
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)
51%
2/4
“The often bewildering and somewhat underwhelming first installment of Kevin Costner's Western epic is long on characters but short on story.
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Observer
Jun 27, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness (2024)
71%
3/4
“A car crash, self amputation, a sex cult—Yorgos Lanthimos' new film is so singular and divisive, it’s likely not to just turn viewers against each other but also against themselves.
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Observer
Jun 21, 2024
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Babes (2024)
88%
3.5/4
“Director Pamela Adlon has done the nearly impossible: crafted a film that mines comic gold from people being loving to one another while acting responsibly.
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Observer
May 18, 2024
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The Fall Guy (2024)
82%
1/4
“Its premise invites a bold send-up of Hollywood excess and self-seriousness. But 'The Fall Guy' has neither the wit nor the gumption to follow through.
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Observer
May 3, 2024
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Monkey Man (2024)
89%
3/4
“This ambitious movie is a blood-filled vengeance tale, a diatribe against institutional injustice, an ode to Indian culture, and a case for Dev Patel as a prodigiously muscled action hero.” –
Observer
Apr 4, 2024
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Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)
71%
2.5/4
“The latest installment of this DreamWorks Animation franchise offers visual and kinetic pleasure, but not a whole lot more.” –
Observer
Mar 7, 2024
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Io Capitano (2023)
96%
2.5/4
“Italian director Matteo Garrone mixes magic realism and brutal reality, but what's most impressive is the profoundly moving work of actors Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall.” –
Observer
Feb 23, 2024
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American Fiction (2023)
93%
3/4
“It reaffirms something most of us were already aware of: Jeffrey Wright (not to sleep on Brown, Ross, Uggams, etc.) is as gifted a screen actor as there is living today.
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Observer
Dec 14, 2023
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Godzilla Minus One (2023)
99%
3.5/4
“Director Takashi Yamazaki, a seasoned special effects supervisor, brings the story back to its original post-war roots—and brings back a sense of spectacle.” –
Observer
Dec 4, 2023
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