Email Author J. Hoberman

Awards

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 13, 2009

  "Let the Mild Rumpus Start!"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 29, 2009

  "Robert Frank's Real America"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 4, 2009

  "Why Hard Times Won't Mean Good Times"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 12, 2008

  "Deep Freeze"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 18, 2008

  "What We Learned About the Election in this Summer's Movies"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 24, 2008

  "Kill One for the Gipper"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 5, 2006

  "Mel Gibson is Responsible for All the Wars in the World"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 16, 2006

  "The New Disaster Movie"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 14, 2006

  "Anarchy in the UK"

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2011 Stories by J. Hoberman

• It's Feminist Revenge in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"

  published December 22, 2011

  The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a svelte remake of the 2009 Swedish blockbuster, a movie that opens with a bit of Led Zeppelin... More >>

• World War I Gets the Spielberg Treatment in "War Horse"

  published December 22, 2011

  War Horse finds the silver lining of individual salvation in one of modern history's darkest thunderclouds: World War I. As the English... More >>

• Extreme Sex Addiction in "Shame"

  published December 15, 2011

  Steve McQueen's first two films both star Michael Fassbender, feature virtually interchangeable titles, and are nearly as grueling to watch as... More >>

• "Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness" Is a Collective Family Album

  published October 20, 2011

  Joseph Dorman's Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness is a film-essay-cum-biodoc on author Solomon Rabinovich (1859-1916), who,... More >>

• Ryan Gosling at the Wheel in the Glossy, Retro Heist-Gone-Bad Bloodbath "Drive"

  published September 15, 2011

  As stripped down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most "American" movie yet by Danish genre director Nicolas Winding... More >>

• Shooting to Kill and Kill Again in French Adrenaline Pumper "Point Blank"

  published September 1, 2011

  Point Blank, a French action film that has nothing to do with the 1967 (and highly Frenchified) John Boorman flick of the same name,... More >>

• "The Arbor": Tumult and Tragedy Resurrected

  published August 25, 2011

  Precocious playwright Andrea Dunbar (1961 - 1990) spoke for the lumpen abused of her native Bradford, England; The Arbor, video artist... More >>

• "The Future": Negotiating It in Miranda July's Latest

  published August 25, 2011

  Is there such thing as a sincerely calculated naïveté? Or put another way, does Miranda July have any idea of how annoying she... More >>

• "The Trip" Is a Talkative Faux-Reality Road Film

  published July 14, 2011

  Cobbled together from a six-part BBC2 miniseries telecast last fall, The Trip is a talkative faux-reality road film largely improvised... More >>

• The NYT Gets Its Own Reality Show in "Page One: Inside the New York Times"

  published July 7, 2011

  Nobody cries "Stop the presses!" in Andrew Rossi's Page One: Inside the New York Times; no one would dare. There's a palpable fear that... More >>

• "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" Documents the Secret Wonders of the Chauvet Cave

  published June 30, 2011

  One of the few justifiable recent excursions into 3-D, Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams documents a secret wonder of the world,... More >>

• J.J. Abrams Deploys Humor and Destruction in His Superfun, Superloud Catastrophe Flick "Super 8"

  published June 9, 2011

  A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams' much-anticipated, greatly enjoyable Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory. Opening three... More >>

• Unknown Past Meets Unknowable Future in "Into Eternity"

  published June 2, 2011

  Danish artist Michael Madsen's Into Eternity documents an anti-monument to negativity. Admirably forward-thinking if undeniably... More >>

• "Meek's Cutoff": Fractured Trust in 19th-Century Oregon

  published May 12, 2011

  Tenacious indie Kelly Reichardt has specialized in quirky, minimalist quasi-road movies in which loners come unmoored in some great American... More >>

• Eight Trappist Monks Uphold the Faith in "Of Gods and Men"

  published May 12, 2011

  The eight gentle Trappist monks depicted in Of Gods and Men uphold the faith that brought them from France to Algeria, only to be... More >>

• "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" Goes Deep Into World's Secret Wonder

  published May 5, 2011

  One of the few justifiable recent excursions into 3-D, Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams documents a secret wonder of the world,... More >>

• The Mysterious World of Mumble Noir in "Cold Weather"

  published April 21, 2011

  Cheerfully diffident, garrulous yet un-inflected, blithely self-absorbed, the mumblecore brand proliferates: Last year's star vehicles... More >>

• "Kaboom": Beautiful Horndogs Get Blown

  published March 24, 2011

  As spacey as its title suggests, Gregg Araki's latest youth film is an occult mystery set in the ultimate SoCal college playpen. Kaboom... More >>

• Keeping the Faith in "Of Gods and Men"

  published March 24, 2011

  The eight gentle Trappist monks depicted in Of Gods and Men uphold the faith that brought them from France to Algeria only to be... More >>

• "The Illusionist" Gives an Old Soul a Second Life

  published February 10, 2011

  Lovingly animating an unproduced script by the great Jacques Tati, The Illusionist is, at least in part, a chaste father-daughter... More >>

• Survival of the Fittest in "The Way Back"

  published January 27, 2011

  There are few narratives more compelling than a survival story like director Peter Weir's new adventure yarn. The protagonists of The Way... More >>

• Seth Rogen Schlubs It Up as "The Green Hornet"'s Masked Man

  published January 13, 2011

  Only inertia will bring people to Michel Gondry's 3-D spectacle, The Green Hornet. Opening amid persistent negative buzz in the... More >>

• In the Muck of Revolution With "White Material"

  published January 6, 2011

  White Material is a portrait of change and a thing of terrible beauty. The time is unspecified. The subject is the collapse of an... More >>

• "Casino Jack" Gambles Little on the Lobbyist or His Livelihood

  published January 6, 2011

  The late George Hickenlooper's Casino Jack is an improbably blithe cautionary tale, recounting the rise and fall of D.C. superlobbyist... More >>