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Joy Tipping

Joy Tipping's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Dallas Morning News staff writer.

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Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) 25% EDIT “I'll go see the next movie quite happily.” – Dallas Morning News Feb 12, 2015 Full Review Cold in July (2014) 84% A- EDIT “Hall couldn't have picked a better role to definitively launch his post-Dexter career.” – Dallas Morning News May 22, 2014 Full Review Labor Day (2013) 34% C EDIT “In compressing Maynard's deeply internal book into the necessarily visual film format, Reitman strips the story of nearly all of the book's barely repressed sexual heat, and hence most of its impact.” – Dallas Morning News Jan 30, 2014 Full Review Les Misérables (2012) 70% A EDIT “One of the most emotionally devastating and gratifying movies I've ever seen.” – Dallas Morning News Dec 25, 2012 Full Review Taken 2 (2012) 22% C- EDIT “It's the same movie, second verse, but unfortunately with far less suspense this time around.” – Dallas Morning News Oct 4, 2012 Full Review People Like Us (2012) 52% A- EDIT “It's a movie that's in a league with films from the golden age of family drama, stories like Ordinary People and Kramer vs. Kramer, although People's dashes of comedy render it far less grim than those examples.” – Dallas Morning News Jun 28, 2012 Full Review Dark Shadows (2012) 35% C- EDIT “The film's biggest disappointment is the utter lack of chemistry between Depp and either Green or Heathcote.” – Dallas Morning News May 10, 2012 Full Review The Woman in Black (2012) 66% D+ EDIT “If there is a single haunted house or ghost story clich that goes unexploited in The Woman in Black, I'd be surprised.” – Dallas Morning News Feb 2, 2012 Full Review The Grey (2012) 80% B+ EDIT “This gritty, relentlessly intense survival tale easily gets dibs on "feel-cold" movie of the year.” – Dallas Morning News Jan 26, 2012 Full Review Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) 60% B EDIT “This new outing matches the original Sherlock in wit, action and the bromance between Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.” – Dallas Morning News Dec 15, 2011 Full Review The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011) 26% C+ EDIT “If you insist on seeing the entire, seemingly never-ending 117 minutes, though, you're going to spend at least 87 of those minutes bored out of your mind.” – Dallas Morning News Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Glee the Concert Movie (2011) 60% C- EDIT “Even the totally Gleeked-out, most ardent fans of Fox's hit television show Glee may find that the franchise's latest endeavor leaves little to sing about.” – Dallas Morning News Aug 11, 2011 Full Review Sarah's Key (2010) 72% B- EDIT “Fans of the book will be glad to hear that it's a faithful adaptation, if markedly less compelling than de Rosnay's prose.” – Dallas Morning News Jul 28, 2011 Full Review A Better Life (2011) 86% A EDIT “Director Chris Weitz neatly avoids sanctimony by centering the engrossing story on a father-son relationship, letting the audience make up its own mind about the overarching matter of illegal immigration.” – Dallas Morning News Jul 1, 2011 Full Review Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011) 47% A- EDIT “Be prepared for the oh-so-real possibility that your kid -- or your wife -- is going to want a penguin for Christmas after seeing this movie.” – Dallas Morning News Jun 16, 2011 Full Review Water for Elephants (2011) 60% B+ EDIT “Can the film live up to Sara Gruen's best-selling novel, an adored word-of-mouth phenomenon? [Yes.]” – Dallas Morning News Apr 21, 2011 Full Review The Big Uneasy (2009) 71% A- EDIT “Previous documentaries about Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans have gone for the heart. For The Big Uneasy, though, writer-director-producer-narrator Harry Shearer takes aim at the brain.” – Dallas Morning News Mar 10, 2011 Full Review Megamind (2010) 73% 4.5/5 EDIT “Ferrell, Fey and Hill acquit themselves hilariously, and Cross steals the movie as Minion.” – Dallas Morning News Nov 4, 2010 Full Review Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) 58% 4.5/5 EDIT “The filmmakers up the ante here with the addition of a smart teenage girl, an adorable toddler and a protective (but freaked-out) German shepherd named Abby.” – Dallas Morning News Oct 23, 2010 Full Review Hereafter (2010) 48% 3.5/5 EDIT “The last 30 minutes of the film hint at what it might have been if someone had whipped that script into shape; the idea of exploring experiences of the afterlife was a great one, and Eastwood certainly has the vision to pull it off.” – Dallas Morning News Oct 22, 2010 Full Review The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) 46% 4.5/5 EDIT “Slade skips the stultifying slow-motion fantasy sequences that so weighed down New Moon in favor of a well-paced blend of action and introspection.” – Dallas Morning News Jun 29, 2010 Full Review Letters to Juliet (2010) 42% 4.5/5 EDIT “Cinematographer Marco Pontecorvo's sun-drenched palette would be a perfectly sound reason to see this film, but happily it's not the only one.” – Dallas Morning News May 14, 2010 Full Review She's Out of My League (2010) 57% 4.5/5 EDIT “The movie's terrific -- it's easily my favorite film released so far this year.” – Dallas Morning News Mar 12, 2010 Full Review Sherlock Holmes (2009) 70% 5/5 EDIT “This is rip-roaring action-adventure of high order, a sometimes dizzying but ultimately thrilling display of showmanship on the part of the actors, director and screenwriters.” – Dallas Morning News Dec 25, 2009 Full Review The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) 28% 2/5 EDIT “Inept cinematography? Oh, yes. Dark and moody is one thing, but this is so murky you have to squint to figure out what's going on.” – Dallas Morning News Nov 19, 2009 Full Review
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