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Eileen Jones

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The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% EDIT “Anything dealing with the “Burned-Over District” — a swath of New York State that got scorched in the nineteenth century by the intensity of charismatic preaching and religious fervor that overtook the region — has got my undivided attention.” – The Jacobin Jan 27, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “It’s a great film that works in such unexpected ways, you can’t really anticipate what you’re going to see from a typical summary. It’s one of those rare films that discombobulates you and silences your glib responses.” – The Jacobin Jan 26, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% EDIT “It’s a fascinating movie within a trilogy that’s shaping up to be an impressive continuation of the beloved franchise. ” – The Jacobin Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “Marty Supreme is one of those wild American tall tales that aren’t even that tall, given how hard it is for anyone but the rich to pursue their dreams here.” – The Jacobin Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “All the plotting tends to be strangely curtailed in these Avatar films, presumably because of the fan commitment to seeing the same movie again next time.” – The Jacobin Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “...for all its oddball awkwardness, Wake Up Dead Man seems more grounded and memorable than the flighty, scrambled Glass Onion. If you like the franchise, you’ll probably find it a pleasure overall. ” – The Jacobin Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “Jay Kelly is proving to be quite a popular dramedy on Netflix. Presumably because it’s so lavishly made...” – The Jacobin Dec 10, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “Even by the often absurdly unrealistic standards of Hollywood filmmaking, the early scenes are so phony it’s painful. ” – The Jacobin Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “ In keeping this franchise going, Dan Trachtenberg has done some insightful work in assessing what aspects of Predator keep a grip on our imaginations.” – The Jacobin Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Del Toro preserves the bare bones of Shelley’s plot but changes so much else, bringing in so many other preoccupations of his own, that a baggy, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink structure weighs his film down.” – The Jacobin Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% EDIT “Somehow the film’s slow-build structure fails, and the impact of this cataclysmic night dissipates well before we get to the end.” – The Jacobin Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT “In short — and this is high praise these days — Springsteen is a well-done, serious drama such as used to be commonplace in American filmmaking and now is vanishingly rare.” – The Jacobin Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “It’s too bad that ultimately Roofman crawls and palls, because the cast is excellent.” – The Jacobin Oct 15, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “Overall, One Battle After Another is the complete package of filmgoing delights. It’s everything movies made in the United States should be right now.” – The Jacobin Sep 29, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% EDIT “In short, a lot of care, thought, and design detail, typical of Kogonada’s films, has gone into this one as well. It just doesn’t help make it any livelier or more compelling.” – The Jacobin Sep 23, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% EDIT “But The Long Walk foregoes such narrative complexities. And unfortunately, the stripped-down concentration on a few key elements doesn’t help build drama — instead, we get a kind of numbing sameness.” – The Jacobin Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% EDIT “So I enjoyed Caught Stealing quite a bit. But then, I’m not shocked at the combination of wild violence and broad humor shot through with occasionally surprising poignance.” – The Jacobin Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “[Highest 2 Lowest is] full of strange choices that pull the audience’s attention all over the place, along with an overarching sensibility of Boomer nostalgia for supposedly better times that’s pretty shocking.” – The Jacobin Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Americana (2025) 63% EDIT “Tost has got some slick skills though, and the movie looks handsome and features some good performances, some nice scenes, and some fancy technical flourishes here and there. It just doesn’t add up to anything very memorable.” – The Jacobin Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “...a hooky premise wouldn’t amount to anything like the juggernaut box office hit this movie has become if Cregger didn’t also have a talent for genuinely strange imagery that sticks in the mind.” – The Jacobin Aug 13, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% EDIT “...a Naked Gun reboot is the perfect vehicle to exponentially increase our affection for Anderson and Neeson. Their willingness to try to make us laugh in these dire times, even if it doesn’t always come off, suddenly makes them huge favorites of ours.” – The Jacobin Aug 6, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% EDIT “it seemed to me a little on the sleepy side as far as pacing and level of narrative excitement. And the Pedro Pascal infatuation,...which would normally charge this material, is inevitably beginning to pall a bit, because Pascal stars in everything now.” – The Jacobin Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025) 100% EDIT “Jaws is rightly celebrated as a landmark, generation-defining hit that launched the career of the preeminent popular director of the American film industry and continues to thrill viewers with its propulsive narrative and formal dynamism.” – The Jacobin Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% EDIT “The worst of Eddington is that for all its loud chaos, it’s a boring vision of the world.” – The Jacobin Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “...David Corenswet (Hollywood, The Politician) is unexpectedly charming and relaxed in the Clark Kent–Superman role, having no trouble uttering his squeaky-clean “What the hey, guys” dialogue.” – The Jacobin Jul 17, 2025 Full Review
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