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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2010 Stories by J. Hoberman

• J. Hoberman's Top 10 Movies of 2010

  published December 30, 2010

  Many of my favorite films of the year are still awaiting wider release, so although this top 10 list wraps up my 2010, it can also serve as a... More >>

• True Grit: Coen Brothers Take Their Tongues Out of Their Cheeks.

  published December 23, 2010

  Boldly reanimating the comic Western that secured John Wayne his Oscar 41 years ago, the Coen brothers' True Grit is... More >>

• Tron: Legacy: Bliss Out On a 3-D, CGI'd, Incomprehensible Head Trip.

  published December 16, 2010

  Jeff Bridges is God and, as image-captured from the original 1982 Tron, he's also the devil in Disney's mega-million dollar reboot,... More >>

• The Fighter Falls Through the Ropes.

  published December 16, 2010

  The Fighter is based on the true story of Lowell, Massachusetts, light welterweight champ "Irish" Micky Ward, but, starring... More >>

• The King's Speech: How Therapy Saved the Monarchy.

  published December 16, 2010

  A picnic for Anglophiles, not to mention a prospective Oscar bonanza for the brothers Weinstein, The King's Speech is a... More >>

• Black Swan: Natalie Portman Goes Batshit in a Tutu.

  published December 2, 2010

  A near-irresistible exercise in bravura absurdity, Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan deserves to become a minor classic of... More >>

• Boxing Gym: Frederick Wiseman's Doc Scores a Knockout.

  published November 18, 2010

  "I was recently sitting with a group of French directors, and at a certain point the conversation turned to Fred Wiseman," critic Kent Jones... More >>

• An Intimate Look at the Price Families Pay for China's Miracle

  published November 11, 2010

  Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan's prize-winning documentary Last Train Home is an intimate portrait of an unfathomable immensity,... More >>

• Inside Job: This Meltdown Memoir Will Make You Seethe.

  published November 4, 2010

  Inside Job, Charles Ferguson's follow-up to his Iraq War gut-twister No End in Sight, is a documentary that... More >>

• Tamara Drewe and the comedy of going plastic in a rustic world

  published November 4, 2010

  Comely, independent, willful young lass returns to collect family inheritance in rural England, drives the local men wild, makes several... More >>

• Heaven is a Place Where Nothing Interesting Happens.

  published October 21, 2010

  Life is wonderful, death is wow, chance is weird and Clint Eastwood's Hereafter is a puddle of tepid ick. Is America's... More >>

• Killer's Tormented Self Gets Simplified for Screen

  published July 15, 2010

  Implicit in its title, the premise of The Killer Inside Me—directed by Michael Winterbottom from Jim Thompson's 1952 crime... More >>

• Green Zone: American Hero Matt Damon and His WMD of a Movie Confirm the Big Lie, Hollywood-Style

  published March 11, 2010

  Better late than never—a bang-bang pulse-pounder predicated on the Bush administration's deliberate fabrication of WMDs in Iraq. Paul... More >>

• Tim Burton's Wonderland Is Not Nearly Curiouser And Curiouser Enough

  published March 4, 2010

  Walt Disney mulled an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland for decades before producing an animated feature in 1951, although by all... More >>

• The White Ribbon

  published February 18, 2010

  The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke's first German-language film since the original Funny Games (1997) and, addressing what... More >>

• Beeswax

  published February 11, 2010

  Though no one's idea of an action film, Andrew Bujalski's Beeswax feels less charmingly aimless than its radically slight... More >>

• The Lovely Bones

  published January 14, 2010

  A one-film cabinet of curiosities, The Lovely Bones turns the most successful CGI director of the '00s loose on one of the... More >>