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Just Add Color is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Monique Jones.

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Secrets to Kill For (2025) Monique Jones I felt that Secrets We Kill For was fun and enjoyable. Overall, Secrets To Kill For is a fun film that scratches that Lifetime itch.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Sinners (2025) Monique Jones Sinners excels at how it successfully and succinctly illustrates how culturally, ethnically, and politically layered the South is.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Liquor Bank (2025) Monique Jones Overall, Liquor Bank is a fantastic short film that builds on Cox's career as a voice for Black men's under-explored emotional inner landscape.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Mickey Hardaway (2023) Monique Jones There’s a lot to parse through with Mickey Hardaway, and I think it’s a film that will stick with you long after the film ends.
Posted Nov 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Summer with the Guys (2023) Monique Jones Summer with the Guys feels like could have been released by a bigger studio. The storyline and acting are also well done, with characters who can make you laugh as they go through their trials of making the almighty dollar.
Posted Oct 18, 2023  Edit critic review
Barbie (2023) Monique Jones The film’s boldness and, frankly, weirdness, allows Barbie to become a successful sum of its parts. It’s a film that clearly has something to say and doesn’t want audiences to get caught up in the fact that it’s a doll at the center of it.
Posted Oct 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Black Adam (2022) Monique Jones For as expensive as it was to create this film, it certainly could have done much more to not feel so cheap, in more ways than one.
Posted Nov 09, 2022  Edit critic review
Respect (2021) Monique Jones Yes, it’ll make you depressed about the life Franklin lived. But, it’ll also give you a more profound love for the Queen of Soul, who managed to shine above all of the horrors and create an enduring legacy that promotes hope and perseverance.
Posted May 13, 2022  Edit critic review
A Shot Through the Wall (2021) Monique Jones Overall, A Shot Through the Wall provides a great dramatized look at the issues of racial politics, particularly anti-Blackness and a need for police reform.
Posted Feb 02, 2022  Edit critic review
The Main Event (2020) Monique Jones The Main Event is a film that is well-acted and well-told, and it makes you wish it were longer.
Posted Sep 14, 2021  Edit critic review
Down a Dark Stairwell (2020) Monique Jones Down a Dark Stairwell offers a gripping, intimate look at the painful aftermath of Gurley's death.
Posted Apr 16, 2021  Edit critic review
West Michigan (2021) Monique Jones Even though the film clocks in at an hour and 16 minutes, West Michigan features lived-in performances that stick in your mind after the film is over.
Posted Apr 16, 2021  Edit critic review
Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) Monique Jones Raya is a great film that teaches lessons such as friendship, trust, and the importance of hope.
Posted Mar 20, 2021  Edit critic review
Promising Young Woman (2020) Monique Jones It's precisely the film's focus on the symptoms that make Promising Young Woman fall a little flat for me...
Posted Mar 06, 2021  Edit critic review
Soul (2020) Monique Jones In a year in which more attention has been paid to Black death than ever before, Soul's adherence to yet another unnecessary Black out-of-body experience becomes even more tonally dissonant than it was before.
Posted Dec 28, 2020  Edit critic review
Give or Take (2020) Monique Jones Overall, Give or Take will leave you feeling warm and contemplative about family, despite the film being set around a funeral.
Posted Dec 02, 2020  Edit critic review
Effigy: Poison and the City (2019) Monique Jones If you're a fan of psychological thrillers and period pieces alike, give Effigy, Poison and the City a watch.
Posted Nov 20, 2020  Edit critic review
Unprescribed (2020) Monique Jones Unprescribed gives viewers a different perspective on a substance they might have preconceived notions about.
Posted Sep 24, 2020  Edit critic review
Mulan (2020) Monique Jones Overall, Mulan aims to be a sweeping, cinematic adaptation of an animated classic. But the film might miss that mark for adult audiences. Despite this, the film has a place in our discussions about positive representation.
Posted Sep 06, 2020  Edit critic review
Black Is King (2020) Monique Jones In this visual album, you can see how Beyoncé has matured as a Black woman, a mother, and a representation of Black excellence.
Posted Aug 03, 2020  Edit critic review
The Lovebirds (2020) Monique Jones The Lovebirds fulfills its duty to the audience to be just sweet enough while providing an outlet for Rae and Nanjiani to play off of each other's comedic timing.
Posted Jul 21, 2020  Edit critic review
Toss It (2019) Monique Jones If we speak in modern aesthetics, Toss It is the film for the Dark Academia-type of person, a person who is all about Dead Poets Society, Before Sunrise, and other films that ponder the nature of life.
Posted Jul 21, 2020  Edit critic review
Uncorked (2020) Monique Jones Overall, Uncorked is a film that will test how you view the family drama. Perhaps it'll even expand how you view it, depending on how you like the unresolved ending.
Posted Jul 21, 2020  Edit critic review
Soundwave (2018) Monique Jones If you like discovering new sci-fi films, give Soundwave a try; its focus on realism despite the fantastical, plus its focus on character, will keep you intrigued.
Posted May 18, 2020  Edit critic review
Blood Quantum (2019) Monique Jones Blood Quantum has bold statements about race, culture and a post-Westernized future, statements that sneak up on you as your covering your eyes from the gore and guts.
Posted May 15, 2020  Edit critic review
The Dalai Lama: Scientist (2019) Monique Jones Even though there are certain areas where The Dalai Lama-Scientist lacks some emotional punch, the film is still an achievement of compiling a little-known look at a spiritual leader who wants to be seen as a philosopher-scholar.
Posted Apr 27, 2020  Edit critic review
Tigertail (2020) Monique Jones You will come away from the film having invested yourself in a story about the trials and tribulations of humanity, which can be as messy as it is inspiring.
Posted Apr 14, 2020  Edit critic review
Tyler Perry's A Fall From Grace (2020) Monique Jones I expect more attention to detail. I expect standards, even with broad, guilty pleasure films. I like junky fast food like anyone else, but even while it's junk, I expect it to satisfy and be served to me with some competence.
Posted Jan 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Queen & Slim (2019) Monique Jones The Blackness in Queen & Slim is limited, possibly because it was all performative to begin with.
Posted Dec 05, 2019  Edit critic review
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018) Monique Jones If you're planning on working in the industry in any capacity, it's probably for the best that you learn about Guy-Blaché. Now that the documentary is out, you have no excuse not to know about the woman who launched the film industry as we know it.
Posted Sep 04, 2019  Edit critic review
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) Monique Jones If the rest of Phase 4 stacks up to Far From Home, I'd be happy.
Posted Jul 16, 2019  Edit critic review
Purdah (2018) Monique Jones I recommend you give Purdah a watch. You'll come from it feeling closer to a family who has defied the odds after life throws them every possible curveball.
Posted Jul 16, 2019  Edit critic review
Aladdin (2019) Monique Jones As a whole, the film chalks up to being just fine. Would I watch it again? Sure. But I think the film's real gold comes from how children will receive it, especially children of a Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) background.
Posted Jun 05, 2019  Edit critic review
Always Be My Maybe (2019) Monique Jones Always Be My Maybe is a cool film to watch on a weekend when you're ready to Netflix and chill. It's a rom-com that has rewatch potential if you can overlook certain ignorant spots regarding ableism.
Posted Jun 05, 2019  Edit critic review
Avengers: Endgame (2019) Monique Jones Incredibly, the film completes a feat no one believed Marvel would be able to pull off 10 years ago-create a long-running arc of stories that spanned a catalog of films, and end it in a profoundly satisfying way.
Posted Apr 30, 2019  Edit critic review
Ekaj (2015) Monique Jones Ekaj is a film that will leave you thinking about its message and its characters. Hopefully, it propels viewers to act with kindness towards others, especially those who are different than them.
Posted Apr 16, 2019  Edit critic review
Guava Island (2019) Monique Jones It's not as if I hate #GuavaIsland. But with all of that fun, I am left asking what the film's purpose is.
Posted Apr 14, 2019  Edit critic review
Where Hands Touch (2018) Monique Jones With such a film as Where Hands Touch, and with the times we are living in, with the alt-right being validated by our current president, the film would have made a much stronger point if it focused on biracial Germans without a Nazi love interest.
Posted Jan 04, 2019  Edit critic review
Roma (2018) Monique Jones I feel like Roma is a perfect example of how a director can re-examine aspects of their life and people who influenced their life without turning everything into a stereotypical mess.
Posted Jan 04, 2019  Edit critic review
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) Monique Jones Overall,"Mowgli" is a good first attempt. It's something that would be fine to watch as a diversion, especially if you are a"Jungle Book" completist. But it's also something that might lose your interest.
Posted Dec 11, 2018  Edit critic review
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Monique Jones Having people of all racial, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds gives Star Wars the legitimacy it needs as both a contemporary film in a multicultural world and as a space opera itself.
Posted Dec 07, 2018  Edit critic review
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