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

• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Meet the New Girl in Town

  published December 22, 2011

  The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is hardly a personal project. Still, David Fincher's sveltely malevolent remake of the 2009... More >>

• Best Films of 2011: Ten and Two to Grow On

  published December 22, 2011

  THE CLOCK Christian Marclay, U.K. One of the most radical film-objects of the 21st century,... More >>

• Young Adult: The Bitch is Back

  published December 15, 2011

  Described as a "psychotic prom-queen bitch," the anti-heroine of Young Adult is a prize part that affords Charlize Theron one of... More >>

• Shame Star Michael Fassbender is Shameless in Depiction of Grueling Sex Addiction.

  published December 1, 2011

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

• A Dangerous Method: What Do Men Want?

  published November 24, 2011

  A Dangerous Method, the title of David Cronenberg's new film, is something of an understatement. As cataclysmic as it is, this... More >>

• The Descendants: Don't Cry for Clooney

  published November 17, 2011

  As life-or-death dramedy, The Descendants poses several important questions: Why has it taken Alexander Payne seven years to... More >>

• J. Edgar: Mama's Boy

  published November 10, 2011

  A resounding "yes" to the question trembling on every lip: There is life after Hereafter! Clint Eastwood goes deep into Oliver... More >>

• The Rum Diary Needs More Punch

  published October 27, 2011

  Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary is what the Brits might call a rum movie — an oddly inoffensive piece... More >>

• Drive: No Talk, All Action

  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... More >>

• The Future: It's Bleak and Annoying

  published August 11, 2011

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

• Terri

  published July 21, 2011

  Terri, directed by Azazel Jacobs, concerns an obese 15-year-old, a de facto orphan, living in a ramshackle home with a... More >>

• Super 8 Flirts With Disaster

  published June 9, 2011

  A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams' Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory. Opening three weeks before the Fourth of... More >>

• Meek's Cutoff: Unsettled Settlers

  published May 12, 2011

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

• Everything Must Go: Will Ferrell Hits Bottom

  published May 12, 2011

  Greatly expanded from a four-page, single-situation story by Raymond Carver, Dan Rush's first feature, Everything Must Go, is an... More >>

• The Beaver: Mad, but not Madcap

  published May 5, 2011

  An earnest, intermittently droll dramedy about a manic-depressive toy manufacturer and his bewildered family, The Beaver is a... More >>

• We Are What We Are: Who's Eating Mexico?

  published March 24, 2011

  The tale of a disoriented cannibal family trying to survive in the lower depths of Mexico City, Jorge Michel Grau's We Are What We... More >>

• Of Gods and Men: A Tale of Madness, Monks and Martyrs

  published March 17, 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 >>

• Cold Weather: Take a Trip to the Mysterious World of Mumble-Noir.

  published March 10, 2011

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

• Cedar Rapids: A Middle-Aged Naif Goes Wild.

  published February 17, 2011

  Fresh from Sundance, Miguel Arteta's amiable Cedar Rapids is a mild comedy of embarrassment, set in the dark heart of Middle... More >>

• The Eagle: A Neophyte Roman General Takes Flight.

  published February 10, 2011

  The Eagle, directed by Kevin Macdonald and adapted from Rosemary Sutcliff's 1954 historical novel, The Eagle of... More >>

• The Illusionist: Reanimating a Celluloid Fossil.

  published February 3, 2011

  Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist breathes life into a celluloid fossil, lovingly animating an unproduced script by the great... More >>

• The Way Back: Survival of the Fittest

  published January 20, 2011

  They call it "human interest." There are few narratives more compelling than a survival story like Peter Weir's new adventure yarn. The... More >>

• The Green Hornet: Seth Rogen Schlubs It Up as a Masked Hero.

  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 >>

• White Material: Drowning in the Current of Revolutionary History.

  published January 13, 2011

  Claire Denis' strongest movie in the decade since Beau Travail, her tense, convulsive White Material is a portrait of change and... More >>