His Finest Hour
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is short, action-packed, and not as bad as it could have been!
Articles by
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.
The Not-So-Beguiled
Sofia Coppola’s new film gets rid of everything that made the original interesting.
The Uncanny City
A new translation of the 1970s horror novel The Twenty Days in Turin is an eerily resonant read in 2017.
Against Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep’s speechifying at the Golden Globes was the worst thing to happen since Trump’s election.
Carrie Fisher (1956–2016)
What we liked about Carrie Fisher was that she seemed inclined to tell the truth, and almost nobody does that, certainly not Hollywood stars.