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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2006 Stories by J. Hoberman

• Don't Believe the Hype

  published December 21, 2006

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

• Nostalgia Trip

  published December 21, 2006

  The Good German, directed by Steven Soderbergh from Joseph Kanon's bestseller, is as much simulation as movie. Specifically, it's... More >>

• Up to Snuff

  published December 7, 2006

  Apocalypto has a faux Greek title and an opening quote from historian Will Durant that ruminates on the decline of imperial Rome. It... More >>

• Fountain of Shame

  published November 23, 2006

  Solemn, flashy and flabbergasting, The Fountain—adapted by Darren Aronofsky from his own graphic novel—should really be... More >>

• There's the Beef

  published November 16, 2006

  Fast Food Nation, directed by Richard Linklater from Eric Schlosser's 2001 best-selling exposé of the McDonald's conspiracy,... More >>

• On the Road

  published November 2, 2006

  Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is funnier than its malapropic title—the... More >>

• French Confection

  published October 19, 2006

  Drop-dead hip or cluelessly clueless? Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, a candy-colored portrait of France's infamous teen queen is a... More >>

• Royal Pains

  published October 19, 2006

  he Queen is more fun than any movie about the violent death of a 36-year-old woman has a right to be. It's also as exotic an... More >>

• Bait and Switch

  published October 5, 2006

  No studio director was a greater hero to the Hong Kong new wave than Martin Scorsese. John Woo dedicated The Killer to him; Wong Kar-Wai... More >>

• Playtime

  published September 28, 2006

  Sweet, crazy and tinged with sadness, Michel Gondry's new feature, The Science of Sleep, is a wondrous concoction. The tricksy... More >>

• Ghost World

  published September 14, 2006

  Directed by Brian De Palma from the novel by neo-noirist James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia is a true-crime policier unfolding in... More >>

• Detective Comics

  published September 7, 2006

  If Superman Returns attempted to resurrect the Man of Steel as mythic hero, the season's other Superman movie wants to disabuse us of any... More >>

• Tube Boobs

  published April 20, 2006

  Wanna knock the prez? Let's make a show... preferably on television. Paul Weitz's new satire American Dreamz imagines the Bush... More >>