Tommy Lee Jones Archives

Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

Rating: ★★

Jul 5, 2002Psychic Link with a Serial Killer

Faye Dunaway is a fashion photographer who gains a psychic link into the mind of a killer. From a John Carpenter script but the thriller plotting is never up to the chic suggestiveness the film is given

Director: Irvin Kershner

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Rene Auberjonois, Brad Dourif, …

Category: Horror

5 July 200220 October 2025 by Roog

Black Moon Rising (1986)

Rating: ★★½

Aug 4, 2000Techno-Thriller/Hi-Tech Car Theft

Made from an old John Carpenter script, this is a reasonable action film starring Tommy Lee Jones as a professional thief who is tasked with stealing a hi-tech car

Director: Harley Cokliss

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Richard Jaeckel, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 August 20001 December 2025 by Roog

Natural Born Killers (1994)

Rating: ★★★★

Sep 11, 2000Mass Murder Spree

Oliver Stone film with Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as a couple on an ultra-violent mass murder spree. Stone gets heavy-handedly preachy but directs with an excess of style that proves enormously entertaining

Director: Oliver Stone

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr, Tommy Lee Jones, …

Category: Horror

11 September 200030 December 2020 by Roog

Batman Forever (1995)

Rating: ★

Apr 30, 2001Comic-Book Superhero

Tim Burton’s superlative duo of Batman films were wrecked after Joel Schumacher took up the director’s chair and turned the films into giant camp fests. Here he allows a madly overacting Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones loose as the villains

Director: Joel Schumacher

Actors: Val Kilmer, Jim Carrey, Tommy Lee Jones, Nicole Kidman, …

Category: Fantasy

30 April 20017 September 2025 by Roog

Volcano (1997)

Rating: ★

Sep 5, 2004Disaster Movie/Volcano Erupts in L.A.

A disaster movie made early into the CGI era based around the ludicrous notion of an active volcano suddenly appearing in Los Angeles

Director: Mick Jackson

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Don Cheadle, Gaby Hoffmann, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 September 200430 November 2021 by Roog

Men in Black (1997)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 20, 2001Alien Coverup Conspiracy Agency

A huge box-office hit, this is a witty comedy that turns the UFO conspiracy of The X Files on its head with the heroes part of an organisation that covers up the existence of aliens

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Actors: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino, Rip Torn, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 August 20011 September 2026 by Roog

Small Soldiers (1998)

Rating: ★★

Nov 5, 1999War Between Toys

Joe Dante has resorted to a rehash of his biggest hit Gremlins, seemingly conceptually slung together with Toy Story - concerning an army of malevolent toy soldiers come to life

Director: Joe Dante

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella, Tommy Lee Jones, Gregory Smith, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 November 199926 May 2026 by Roog

Space Cowboys (2000)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 6, 2000Aging Astronauts Reunite for a Space Mission

Clint Eastwood directs a film about a quartet of aging NASA astronauts reunited for one mission back into space after forty years.

Director: Clint Eastwood

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 August 200010 August 2021 by Roog

Men in Black II (2002)

Rating: ★

Jul 29, 2002Alien Coverup Conspiracy Agency

Sequel that turns a witty original into overblown slapstick that never consists of anything more than absurd gags with aliens and technology popping up from behind everyday objects

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Actors: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Lara Flynn Boyle, Rosario Dawson, …

Category: Science Fiction

29 July 20027 January 2025 by Roog

The Missing (2003)

Rating: ★★

Mar 10, 2003Western/American Indian Sorcerer

Ron Howard makes a Western that has some horror overtones featuring an evil Indian sorcerer. In the hands of a classic director like John Ford this could have been an epic work but Howard’s plodding predictability kills interest

Director: Ron Howard

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Eric Schweig, …

Category: Fantasy

10 March 20038 January 2025 by Roog

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 19, 2024Backstage at a Radio Variety Show

The final film from the great Robert Altman set backstage at a radio variety show as an angel of death wanders through

Director: Robert Altman

Actors: Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Woody Harrelson, …

Category: Fantasy

19 February 202419 February 2024 by Roog

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Rating: ★★

Jul 25, 2011Comic-Book Superhero

One of the more disappointing of the Marvel Comics adaptations. Despite all the elements assembled, this never comes to life in director Joe Johnston's hands and takes forever to get into action

Director: Joe Johnston

Actors: Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 July 201122 March 2025 by Roog

Men in Black 3 (2012)

Rating: ★★

May 24, 2012Alien Coverup Conspiracy Agency

One fails to greet another sequel with any enthusiasm. This mostly consists of tired, familiar gags, where the most generous compliment you can pay is that it is better than Men in Black II

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Actors: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 May 20121 September 2026 by Roog

Criminal (2016)

Rating: ★★

May 28, 2016Transplanted Memories/Action Film

Everything indicates this should have been a hit – an impressive star line-up, big polished action sequences – only it tanked. Much has been assembled in the service of a hackneyed idea where the memories of an FBI agent are implanted into criminal Kevin Costner

Director: Ariel Vroman

Actors: Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, …

Category: Science Fiction

28 May 20163 October 2025 by Roog

Ad Astra (2019)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 14, 2019Mission to the Outer Reaches of the Solar System

In the same vein as Gravity and The Martian, this depicts spaceflight with scrupulous scientific regard. Essentially Apocalypse Now in space with Brad Pitt on a mission to Neptune to find his father who has gone rogue

Director: James Gray

Actors: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, Ruth Negga, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 December 20196 November 2025 by Roog