Mark Jackson
Film Critic
Mark Jackson is the chief film critic for The Epoch Times. In addition to the world’s number-one storytelling vehicle—film, he enjoys martial arts, weightlifting, Harley-Davidsons, vision questing, rock-climbing, qigong, oil painting, and human rights activism. Mark earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Williams College, followed by a classical theater training, and has 20 years’ experience as a New York professional actor, working in theater, commercials, and television daytime dramas. He recently narrated the Epoch Times audiobook “How the Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World,” which is available on iTunes and Audible. Mr. Jackson is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic.
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LATEST
‘Protocol 7’: Important Film About Big Pharma and Vaccines
‘Protocol 7’ is a whistle-blowing film, directed by a whistle-blowing doctor, about Big Pharma tweaking lab data to make more money on vaccines. A must-see.
‘A Quiet Place: Day One’: The Point of Diminishing Returns
Had this prequel focused on rude people learning to shut up because otherwise radar-headed bat-Pterodactyls would eat their heads, we would’ve had something.
The Birth of American ‘One-Percenter’ Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
‘The Bikeriders’ depicts America’s pre-outlaw motorcycle gang culture. Gone with the wind are those halcyon days, but the movie’s a nostalgic summer ride.
‘Ride’: A Slice of Texas Bull-Riding Culture
This Texas cowboy melodrama is very all-American, and it’s a well-acted indictment of the bankrupting power of the American healthcare system.
‘Hit Man’: Richard Linklater Directs a Fun Summer Romcom
It’s 97 percent critics, 93 percent audiences on Rotten Tomatoes; yup, it’s a hit, man.
‘Ezra’: An Excellent Mini-‘Rain Man’ Father-Son Road Trip
Autism has proliferated since the 1990s. The very fine “Ezra” puts a human face on the situation and sets up the coming Big Pharma exposé doc “Protocol 7.”
‘Tenet’: Spy Tale Goes Back to the Future in Unsatisfying Ways
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ futzes with the time-space continuum in a top-secret spy tale intended to tank an incipient WWIII, but it’s a tad tedious.
‘The Last Stop in Yuma County’: Darkly Humorous Neo-Western
A slow-burn thriller where each bad thing that happens comically snowballs and moves the film from dread at the outset to hilarity at the outcome.
‘The Sting’: A 50th Anniversary Celebration
Arguably the G.O.A.T. heist-comedy-blockbuster, “The Sting” (seven Oscars) is the premier example of the saying, “They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.”
‘Challengers’: Tennis Tale With Hidden Agenda
“Challengers” will secure Zendaya’s mega-movie stardom, but its not-so-hidden indoctrination agenda is annoying.
