Kimberley Jones

Greetings! In this week's issue, we kick off a new year of Best of Austin polling. Whether you're new to the paper or just need a refresher, we're here to demystify the process.

The German actress Paula Beer has a delicately expressive face. In her now-four collaborations with writer-director Christian Petzold, she’s registered vast emotions and emotive styles across that lovely face – tremolo as an abandoned wife in an authoritarian state in Transit, stormy as Undine’s titular nymph falling in and out of love, easygoing and open […]

Planning even the most modest wedding can be endlessly stressful. Narrowing down the flowers, the food, the first dance, a decent DJ? Exhausting. Writing a toast about your new spouse? Nerve-wracking. Playing a drunken game of “let’s share the worst thing you ever did” a week before the wedding? Ruinous. The Drama – a title […]

Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy has been remade so many times, some novelty is required to justify another spin at the wheel. Director Aneil Karia and screenwriter Michael Lesslie make just such a case in the opening minutes of their adaptation, which reinvents the Danish royals as the super-wealthy family of a South Asian real estate […]

Ken Burns may have American parks, presidents, and wars on lock, but Morgan Neville is arguably the documentary world’s most prolific chronicler of American pop culture. His films have covered children’s TV icon Fred Rogers (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?), global traveler Anthony Bourdain (Roadrunner), banjoing comedian Steve Martin (STEVE!), and a whole swath of […]

Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies, and videotape is a foundational text of the 1990s indie film movement in America and, though the Oscars lost interest after his Traffic/Erin Brockovich double whammy in 2000, Soderbergh is the figure a lot of critics point to when surveying the crumbling state of American cinema: That guy? Who figured out […]

What if an unexploded WWII-era bomb was unearthed in the middle of London? And what if some criminally-minded folks took advantage of the chaos to do a little capering? The premise of this British actioner is a corker, at least, and it has in theory three potentially gripping staging grounds for drama, with the military […]

First-time filmmaker Ben McKenzie wastes no time letting the audience know exactly how he feels about cryptocurrency, the subject of his lively new documentary Everyone Is Lying to You for Money. Just under two minutes in, he turns to the camera and delivers his verdict on crypto with the kind of expert timing and camera-readiness […]

Within the family at the center of Blue Heron, the black sheep is a blond. Fair-skinned teenager Jeremy (Edik Beddoes) is an outlier among his siblings, two jostling preteen boys and watchful, 8-year-old Sasha (Eylul Guven), who are all darkly featured and take after their Hungarian parents (Iringó Réti and Ádám Tompa). Jeremy’s hair color […]

I didn’t discover Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi is in her 70s until after I watched Silent Friend, her two-and-half-hour meditation on the mysterious communion of humans with the natural world, but it certainly tracks: Silent Friend has the unhurried pace and admirable long view of someone who’s seen a lot of life – not unlike […]