Oliver Jones
@ogoliverjones.bsky.social
Film critic, professor, journalist
If Mamdani visits Trump once a week, we might end up with universal daycare and Medicaid for all.
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
If Mamdani visits Trump once a week, we might end up with universal daycare and Medicaid for all.
What does it say about the job of President that the last two people to have it became physically and mentally incapacitated while doing it and they functioned exactly as they did before? It had no impact on outcome.
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
What does it say about the job of President that the last two people to have it became physically and mentally incapacitated while doing it and they functioned exactly as they did before? It had no impact on outcome.
Dude, your Dodge Charger needs a CPAP.
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Dude, your Dodge Charger needs a CPAP.
I think today we can officially quash the "Dodgers fans leave the game early" narrative.
October 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I think today we can officially quash the "Dodgers fans leave the game early" narrative.
It has been a while since I blueskyd. It's been a spell since my last review. And its been an eternity since I have seen cinematic lightning captured so dynamically as in Jafar Panahi's IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. See it if you're able. observer.com/2025/10/movi...
Now Screening: Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just an Accident’
Panahi’s masterwork of a revenge thriller exactingly traces how evil, once inflicted, metastasizes within our souls and eventually overtakes us.
observer.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It has been a while since I blueskyd. It's been a spell since my last review. And its been an eternity since I have seen cinematic lightning captured so dynamically as in Jafar Panahi's IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. See it if you're able. observer.com/2025/10/movi...
Nation Museum of African American History and Culture, 2:14pm.
March 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Nation Museum of African American History and Culture, 2:14pm.
If they had an Oscar for casting, Sean Baker would have won 5.
March 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
If they had an Oscar for casting, Sean Baker would have won 5.
This turned out to be a excellent night for film critics, unlike pretty much every other night.
March 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This turned out to be a excellent night for film critics, unlike pretty much every other night.
Thank god the Adrian Brody speech has an intermission.
March 3, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Thank god the Adrian Brody speech has an intermission.
This Oscars is coming 47 years too late for THE WIZ.
March 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This Oscars is coming 47 years too late for THE WIZ.
Zoe Saldana was the best thing in Emilia Perez and El Mal was its best moment.
March 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Zoe Saldana was the best thing in Emilia Perez and El Mal was its best moment.
This James Bond thing is like Rob Lowe and Snow White for guys. #oscars
March 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This James Bond thing is like Rob Lowe and Snow White for guys. #oscars
Why is someone talking on a phone at a bar incredibly distracting where someone talking to an actual person not?
February 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Why is someone talking on a phone at a bar incredibly distracting where someone talking to an actual person not?
We all expected Rome to burn. We did not expect Democrats to play the fiddle.
February 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
We all expected Rome to burn. We did not expect Democrats to play the fiddle.
Note to news people: if you are standing next to your uncle watching your house burn down and your uncle says, “You’re house is not on fire,” the big news is not that he said that.
January 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Note to news people: if you are standing next to your uncle watching your house burn down and your uncle says, “You’re house is not on fire,” the big news is not that he said that.
My hope is that we give Sebastian Stan an Oscar and California secedes on the same day.
January 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My hope is that we give Sebastian Stan an Oscar and California secedes on the same day.
Yesterday I learned that in 1976 Henny Youngman played a character named Manny Farber in the film WON TON TON, THE DOG WHO SAVED HOLLYWOOD and felt all my worlds colliding.
January 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Yesterday I learned that in 1976 Henny Youngman played a character named Manny Farber in the film WON TON TON, THE DOG WHO SAVED HOLLYWOOD and felt all my worlds colliding.
I gather all the news I need from David Lynch’s weather report. #rip
January 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I gather all the news I need from David Lynch’s weather report. #rip
The one positive aspect of disasters— temporary unity and shared sense of purpose— has, like everything else on earth, been ruined by the internet.
January 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The one positive aspect of disasters— temporary unity and shared sense of purpose— has, like everything else on earth, been ruined by the internet.
Snow days are a lot less fun when it’s fire.
January 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Snow days are a lot less fun when it’s fire.
Movie critics don’t work in a vacuum. The 2024 films that ment the most to me were informed by two major events: my mom’s death in and the results of the election. Here are the movies that helped get me through.
https://observer.com/2024/12/the-years-best-films-changes-in-perspective-and-heroes/
https://observer.com/2024/12/the-years-best-films-changes-in-perspective-and-heroes/
December 24, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Movie critics don’t work in a vacuum. The 2024 films that ment the most to me were informed by two major events: my mom’s death in and the results of the election. Here are the movies that helped get me through.
https://observer.com/2024/12/the-years-best-films-changes-in-perspective-and-heroes/
https://observer.com/2024/12/the-years-best-films-changes-in-perspective-and-heroes/
American: every December we watch IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE and every November we vote for Mr. Potter.
December 21, 2024 at 8:45 PM
American: every December we watch IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE and every November we vote for Mr. Potter.
What we never seem to understand when children commit mass shootings: the means is always the motive. Underdeveloped minds should not have access to firearms.
December 17, 2024 at 6:49 PM
What we never seem to understand when children commit mass shootings: the means is always the motive. Underdeveloped minds should not have access to firearms.
Quick, for $500: name what day of the week it is.
December 17, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Quick, for $500: name what day of the week it is.