Dreams of the Fifties
Channeling Steven Spielberg, Jurassic World sets the “bad” forces of social upheaval against the “good” traditional values.
395 Article(s) by: Eileen Jones
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Eileen Jones is a film critic at Jacobin, host of the Filmsuck podcast, and author of Filmsuck, USA.
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 monstrosity.
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 we haven’t seen since Office Space
Wes Anderson and the Old Regime
With The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson has reached the dizzying point of fantasizing about feeling nostalgic for nostalgia itself.
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 of rich assholes.
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 American film industry might save itself by learning, or re-learning, from them.
The Great American Losers
Unlike most other American directors, Joel and Ethan Coen have always been interested in depicting failure. Their new film, Inside Llewyn Davis, takes such an unblinking look at humiliating defeat.
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 quality product.
The Fantastic Failure of The Lone Ranger
At least Verbinski tries to bring intelligent, politically-savvy revisionist westerns back into style.
They Shoot Oscars, Don’t They?
The Oscar ceremony has finally acquired an ideal twenty-first century host in the smirking, tap-dancing, bland-faced Seth MacFarlane.