George Bailey’s Shrinkage
It’s a Wonderful Life of lowered expectations.
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.
A Rough Night at the Opera
John Adams and Peter Sellars’s Girls of the Golden West is bland, poorly staged liberalism.
Seventeen Soviet Films
The October Revolution unleashed cinematic brilliance that even decades of political censorship couldn’t extinguish.
His Finest Hour
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is short, action-packed, and not as bad as it could have been!
The Not-So-Beguiled
Sofia Coppola’s new film gets rid of everything that made the original interesting.