The Peaky Blinders Film Ratchets Up the Gloom and Black Humor
Cillian Murphy’s final turn as Tommy Shelby in Netflix’s Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man is a brooding, gorgeous farewell to one of TV’s great antiheroes.
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Project Hail Mary Is the Feel-Good Dystopian Sci-fi We Need
Ryan Gosling’s new space film, Project Hail Mary, blends doomsday stakes with a surprisingly tender cross‑species friendship, offering a rare blockbuster that admits the planet is worth saving — and that solidarity might still matter.
Outcome Is Jonah Hill’s Inept Hollywood Satire
Jonah Hill’s new Apple TV Hollywood satire, Outcome, wants to skewer celebrity culture. But even with the likable Keanu Reeves, its muddled script and self‑pitying subtext reveal more about the industry’s narcissism than the film ever intended.
Robert Redford Knows Too Much
In the 1970s, the public flocked to movies about the US government’s shadowy misdeeds.
Rowland Brown’s Brutal Portraits of the Life of Crime
The gritty 1930s crime dramas of Rowland Brown offer contemporary movie watchers something they won’t easily get elsewhere: an adult ability to look directly at an infinitely corrupt world without flinching.
Boys, Beasts, and a Bloated Lord of the Flies
Jack Thorne’s Netflix adaptation of Lord of the Flies drowns William Golding’s brutal clarity in arty excess, muddled psychology, and a strangely sentimental plea for sympathy for boys.
Jonathan Demme’s Wild, Humanist Cinema Deserves a Reappraisal
The Criterion Channel’s new Jonathan Demme retrospective is a chance to look beyond The Silence of the Lambs and rediscover one of America’s most adventurous, surprising, and charming filmmakers.
How Brazilian Cinema Survived Fascism
Under Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s national cinema was gutted, censored, and left for dead. Then Lula returned — and so did the movies.
Year of the Zombie
George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead showed a new society devouring the old.
Letters + The Internet Speaks (Issue 34)
Because communication is at the heart of any good relationship.
I Love Man of Steel and I’m Not Sorry
In Man of Steel, Superman returns to his Popular Front roots.
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Issue 11/12 Preview: “Misery Index”
Our next issue will be mailed to subscribers on August 16 and released online on September 2.
Jacobin’s Quarantine Movie List
A new canon for those stuck indoors.
Issue 14 Preview: “A World to Win”
The new issue of Jacobin will be out in May. Here's a sneak peek and an animated GIF to share with your friends.
Issue 10 Preview: “Assembly Required”
Our new issue is slightly delayed, but only for the best of reasons. We're getting bigger and better.
Issue 13 Preview: “Alive in the Sunshine”
Our next issue will be mailed to subscribers January 2 and released online January 13.
Parasite, a Window Into South Korean Neoliberalism
Bong Joon Ho’s film Parasite has been hailed for highlighting the class divides that split South Korean society. But its portrayal of working-class life also demonstrates a deeper ill of capitalism — the way in which the constant hunt for a job undermines our basic human dignity.
Tear Down the Confederates’ Symbols
The battle against the remnants of Confederate sentiment is a battle against both white supremacy and class rule.