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The Jacobin

The Jacobin is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Eileen Jones.

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The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Eileen Jones 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.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Eileen Jones 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.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Eileen Jones It’s a fascinating movie within a trilogy that’s shaping up to be an impressive continuation of the beloved franchise.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Eileen Jones 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.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Eileen Jones 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.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Eileen Jones ...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.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) Eileen Jones Jay Kelly is proving to be quite a popular dramedy on Netflix. Presumably because it’s so lavishly made...
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Eileen Jones Even by the often absurdly unrealistic standards of Hollywood filmmaking, the early scenes are so phony it’s painful.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Eileen Jones In keeping this franchise going, Dan Trachtenberg has done some insightful work in assessing what aspects of Predator keep a grip on our imaginations.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Eileen Jones 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.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Moon (2025) Eileen Jones Somehow the film’s slow-build structure fails, and the impact of this cataclysmic night dissipates well before we get to the end.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Eileen Jones 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.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Roofman (2025) Eileen Jones It’s too bad that ultimately Roofman crawls and palls, because the cast is excellent.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Eileen Jones 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.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Eileen Jones 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.
Posted Sep 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Long Walk (2025) Eileen Jones 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.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Caught Stealing (2025) Eileen Jones 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.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Eileen Jones [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.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Americana (2025) Eileen Jones 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.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Eileen Jones ...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.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Naked Gun (2025) Eileen Jones ...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.
Posted Aug 06, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Eileen Jones 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.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025) Eileen Jones 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.
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Eileen Jones The worst of Eddington is that for all its loud chaos, it’s a boring vision of the world.
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Eileen Jones ...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.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Eileen Jones ...if you’re at all movie-savvy, you already know if you want to see Jurassic World Rebirth or not and you aren’t likely to be surprised by the experience if you do go.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
F1 The Movie (2025) Eileen Jones There are stylish ways of embracing formulaic artifice and making it fresh again...But clearly nobody involved with F1 is too worried about that. They know its big dumb posturing will sell.
Posted Jul 02, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Eileen Jones I’m one of the few who appreciated the ending — its sudden jump into dark humor and action-oriented, exuberant craziness. It seemed like it was about time for that version of the human response to utter catastrophe to burst forth.
Posted Jun 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Materialists (2025) Eileen Jones ...Materialists really tests the limits of how much grim 2020s reality a movie can reflect while still functioning in the fantasy realm of romantic comedy.
Posted Jun 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballerina (2025) Eileen Jones Certainly, the incredibly high standard of inventive fight choreography in the John Wick series is upheld in Ballerina. It’ll be a matter of taste which one is your favorite.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Male Animal (1942) Eileen Jones Just the fact that this film got made and released shows how much relative freedom of expression was possible in films of the early 1940s. But not for much longer.
Posted Jun 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Friendship (2024) Eileen Jones ...Friendship is surprisingly well-done, sustaining a limited conceit long enough to make you consider the oddities of friendship between men in particular, and the increasingly common phenomenon of the isolated male.
Posted May 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Eileen Jones ... when Christ figures like Ethan keep not dying, always rising again no matter how absolutely dead they seemed a minute before, it gets monotonous.
Posted May 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Thunderbolts* (2025) Eileen Jones We’ve seen so many variations on these superheroes-save-the-world action scenes, it’s impossible not to feel jaded. But Thunderbolts* has Florence Pugh, plus just enough energy to make for decent, undemanding entertainment...
Posted May 09, 2025  Edit critic review
The Legend of Ochi (2025) Eileen Jones The Legend of Ochi is paced a bit ploddingly and without many surprises...But the details of its Carpathian neverland are delightfully different from what we’re used to seeing, and the actors all give excellent performances...
Posted May 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Sinners (2025) Eileen Jones in spite of its many recognizable allusions to other movies...there’s nothing like Sinners. It’s as wild, at times, as an idea that emerged directly from the id and was never revised. I recommend it based on that fact alone.
Posted Apr 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Warfare (2025) Eileen Jones Warfare is all played straight, almost as straight as the hilarious Dr Strangelove... But sadly, in this case, humorlessness in representing American madness doesn’t connote black comedy, just more phony war-is-hell theatrics.
Posted Apr 19, 2025  Edit critic review
A Minecraft Movie (2025) Eileen Jones A Minecraft Movie is tired, perhaps because this overworked material has been in development in Hollywood since 2014, with innumerable writers and directors trying to make something movie-like out of it.
Posted Apr 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Disney's Snow White (2025) Eileen Jones If it weren’t for the sparkling talents of Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) in the title role, it would be totally unwatchable.
Posted Mar 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Monkey (2025) Eileen Jones It’s quite inventive and open-ended.
Posted Mar 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Black Bag (2025) Eileen Jones Nothing to see here that you couldn’t appreciate just as much when it’s streaming on television, if you’re so inclined.
Posted Mar 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Mickey 17 (2025) Eileen Jones After a fairly energetic start, Mickey 17 drags along like a dying animal, leaking vitality all the way.
Posted Mar 12, 2025  Edit critic review
I'm Still Here (2024) Eileen Jones Clearly for Brazilian audiences, the ongoing political volatility there makes the film seem all too relevant. And our own political precarity in the United States makes I’m Still Here positively haunting.
Posted Mar 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Gorge (2025) Eileen Jones This was never going to be a film for the ages, obviously, but something weirder and pulpier might have kept the plot boiling along with a chance at some less innocuous conclusion.
Posted Feb 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Love Hurts (2025) Eileen Jones The script by Matthew Murray, Josh Stoddard, and Luke Passmore, and the direction by newcomer and ex-stunt coordinator Jonathan Eusebio...are so weak that the resulting film probably wouldn’t have worked for anybody.
Posted Feb 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Brutalist (2024) Eileen Jones The Brutalist is a big and bold story of the immigrant experience and the postwar American dream. It’s confounding yet always interesting — a heartening thing in these cinematically tough times.
Posted Feb 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Hard Truths (2024) Eileen Jones Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths is another triumph by that legendary dramatist of working-class British life.
Posted Feb 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Presence (2024) Eileen Jones Steven Soderbergh’s low-budget haunted house flick Presence puts the viewer in the point of view of the ghost. It’s a thrilling experiment.
Posted Jan 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Better Man (2024) Eileen Jones A CGI simian twist isn’t enough to turn Better Man into anything more than a by-the-numbers Robbie Williams biopic.
Posted Jan 16, 2025  Edit critic review
The Damned (2024) Eileen Jones With a modest budget but plenty of thrills involving spooky 19th-century ships, frozen wastelands, and ghouls from Nordic folktales, The Damned proudly carries on our Gothic horror revival.
Posted Jan 14, 2025  Edit critic review
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