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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2007 Stories by J. Hoberman

• California Burning

  published December 27, 2007

  A great brooding thundercloud of a movie, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood arrives as if from nowhere on a gust of critical... More >>

• Mr. Schrader Goes to Washington

  published December 6, 2007

  Paul Schrader's cinema is largely defined by the pathology of his male protagonists, and with The Walker, he's added a striking new... More >>

• Like a Complete Unknown

  published November 29, 2007

  I'm Not There is the movie of the year — but to whom does Todd Haynes's Bob Dylan biopic actually belong, and when was it really... More >>

• Harlem Knight

  published November 1, 2007

  American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal... More >>

• Anatomy of a Murder

  published October 18, 2007

  Calling all pundits. It's a baffling caprice of the zeitgeist to have two studio Westerns released in the same month, 30-odd years after the... More >>

• Still Cronenberg

  published September 20, 2007

  I've said it before and hope to again: David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director... More >>

• Still Waiting for That Train

  published September 6, 2007

  Huffing and puffing to resuscitate a long-moribund genre, James Mangold manages to imbue a 50-year-old Western with the semblance of life.... More >>

• Man Down

  published August 16, 2007

  Nothing if not appropriate for summer blockbuster season, Werner Herzog's latest feature, based on his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs... More >>

• Dr. Feelgood

  published June 28, 2007

  We´re Americans. We go into other countries when we need to. It´s tricky, but it works.¨ So declares Michael Moore in the midst of... More >>

• The House Always Wins

  published June 7, 2007

  Ocean´s Thirteen Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien. Starring Brad Pitt, George... More >>

• Goal(s)!

  published May 3, 2007

  Jafar Panahi is a paradoxical populist. He makes crowd-pleasing art movies, often set in the midst of life — the urban crowd is one of his... More >>

• Rachel Stein, Showgirl

  published April 19, 2007

  Holland's gift to world cinema, Paul Verhoeven, can be a very bad boy and a very good filmmaker. Any of his movies could have been titled Basic... More >>

• Threat-Level: Killer Tadpole

  published March 22, 2007

  Gross-out horror is never far from comedy and The Host, Bong Joon-ho's giddy creature feature, has the anarchic mess factor worthy of a... More >>

• Ace Up His Sleeve

  published January 25, 2007

  New-school genre junk food: Take a Tarantino wannabe with Sundance credentials, add a large, famous-enough cast and a show-biz backdrop, season... More >>

• Magic Touch

  published January 11, 2007

  Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth is something alchemical. To an astonishing degree, the 42-year-old Mexican... More >>

• Don't Believe the Hype

  published January 4, 2007

  History repeats itself: 11 Decembers ago, Universal had the season's strongest movie — a downbeat sci-fi flick freely adapted from a... More >>