Selma and the Struggle
Selma isn’t just a great movie. Its sense of history and justice is deeply politicizing.
Thinking Serious Thoughts
We’re not saying we’re on North Korea’s side this time around. But we’re definitely not on Seth Rogen’s.
Reactionaries in Space
Interstellar celebrates American-style frontier expansion and retrograde masculinity. It’s an ideological […]
Horror for the Whole Family
David Fincher’s Gone Girl revels in the sickness of our culture by making it seem attractive.
No War but Ape War
Who doesn’t want to watch armed chimpanzees ride horses?
The Genius of Silicon Valley
Despite his libertarianism, Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley tears apart tech elites with a ruthless precision […]
Wes Anderson and the Old Regime
With The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson has reached the dizzying point of fantasizing about feeling nostalgic […]
Crocodile Tears of the Wolf
The Wolf of Wall Street’s eleventh hour Hail Mary doesn’t atone for the rest of the film’s gleeful celebration […]
Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014)
To see Philip Seymour Hoffman even in films that you hated was to come away awed.
Regrounding Hollywood
Gravity points us back to the sensation cinema practices of the silent era, and it’s dimly possible that the […]
The Great American Losers
Unlike most other American directors, Joel and Ethan Coen have always been interested in depicting failure. Their […]
Thor 2 is a Cinematic McDonald’s Cheeseburger
Thor: The Dark World is a perfect example of how market competition does not actually provide us with the highest […]
Eileen Jones
Eileen Jones is a film critic at Jacobin and author of the book Filmsuck, USA. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.