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

• Film 2007: Hit List

  published December 27, 2007

  It’s that time of year again. Our six critics don’t always (or often) agree, but we’ve combined their top 10 lists (allowing for... More >>

• Coppola returns with Youth Without Youth

  published December 20, 2007

  Youth Without Youth, Francis Ford Coppola's self-financed return to the fray, is a curious project—well-crafted,... More >>

• Jimmy Carter Documentary Full of Good Intentions

  published December 13, 2007

  Jonathan Demme, who directed Tom Hanks to an Oscar as the AIDS-afflicted lawyer in Philadelphia, may be the most well-meaning filmmaker... More >>

• Mr. Schrader Goes to Washington

  published December 13, 2007

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

• Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown

  published November 22, 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... More >>

• Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Has Family Issues

  published November 15, 2007

  Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is less Sidney Lumet's comeback than his resurrection. Three years after being presented a... More >>

• Nothing Left Behind in Southland Tales

  published November 15, 2007

  A doom-ridden pulp cabalist with a dark sense of purpose as well as humor, Richard Kelly shoots the moon with his rich, strange and very funny... More >>

• Aborton doc Lake of Fire Gives No Answers

  published November 8, 2007

  Named for the spot in Christian fundamentalist hell where sinners are condemned to spend eternity, Tony Kaye's Lake of Fire is a... More >>

• Review: Ridley Scott's American Gangster

  published November 1, 2007

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

• 'Assassination' Anatomy

  published October 4, 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 13, 2007

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

• Saying Goodbye to Two Giants of Cinema

  published August 9, 2007

  Ingmar Bergman directed more than 50 features, but he was a significant figure in 20th-century culture in part because he was so obviously... More >>

• Man Down

  published July 12, 2007

  Just when it seemed Independence Day might be the exclusive province of Michael Bay's Transformers, MGM rushes in with Rescue... 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 his new... More >>

• Mighty Heart, Mightier Spotlight

  published June 21, 2007

  A skilled actor vanishes into a role; a movie star appropriates it. As presence trumps character, the star personifies Brecht's alienation effect,... More >>

• The Mystery of the Tween Demo

  published June 14, 2007

  So lame it's...cool? Nancy Drew, writer-director Andrew Fleming's attempt to jump-start a new Warner Bros. franchise, is a movie... More >>

• The House Always Wins

  published June 7, 2007

  Lowest Common Denominator-ism writ large and engraved in stone like the Ten Commandments according to Cecil B. DeMille, the Hollywood blockbuster... More >>

• L.A. Story

  published May 31, 2007

  There are first films like Citizen Kane or Breathless, which, as radically new and fully achieved as they are, unfairly overshadow... More >>

• America Cannes

  published May 31, 2007

  CANNES, France—The world's preeminent film festival celebrated its 60th birthday party — the opening banquet catered by the world's... More >>

• Palm d'Hoberman

  published May 31, 2007

  Cannes, FRANCE — Sometimes the competition is actually competitive. No one disputes that the official section at the 60th Cannes Film... 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 26, 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 >>

• North by Northwest

  published April 26, 2007

  A dozen years ago, Kelly Reichardt made her feature debut with a wonderfully desultory, nearly avant-garde riff on the last romantic couple.... More >>

• Wild at Heart

  published April 5, 2007

  No director works closer to his unconscious than David Lynch, and stimulated by the use of amateur digital video technology, his latest feature... More >>