Fake Controversy, Terrible Comedy
The new Ghostbusters isn’t a feminist triumph. It’s just a bad movie.
Back to the Free State
The Free State of Jones isn’t very good entertainment, but it deserves credit for getting much of the story of […]
Nobody Wants Some
Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! assumes we’d all like to return to the days when the boys ruled campus. […]
Death to All Superheroes
Batman is a fascist. Superman is dead. I’m bored.
The Means of Escape
The communists in the Coen brothers’ Hail Caesar! are silly caricatures, but the film upholds basic Marxist premises. […]
When Revenge Goes Wrong
Instead of a captivating revenge film, The Revenant quickly becomes an overwrought mess.
The Sixth Decade
M. Night Shymalan plays on our fears of growing old in his new movie The Visit.
The Cinematic Lost Cause
Why have so many films dealing with the Civil War embraced the Confederate struggle?
Dreams of the Fifties
Channeling Steven Spielberg, Jurassic World sets the “bad” forces of social upheaval against the “good” […]
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 […]
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.