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

• Rooney Mara takes control of the Stieg Larsson juggernaut in Dragon Tattoo

  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 Swedish... More >>

• World War I gets the Spielberg treatment in War Horse

  published December 22, 2011

  A doggedly overwrought production less felt than facile, Steven Spielberg's War Horse is an essentially uninvolving prestige... More >>

• J. Hoberman's 10+ favorites of 2011

  published December 22, 2011

  The past twelve months brought a number of powerful, introspective, big-theme cine-statements, many of them by old masters (see below). Some... More >>

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  Clint Eastwood's inspired take on a giant of the twentieth century in J. Edgar

  published November 17, 2011

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

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  The perils of communal living in Martha Marcy May Marlene

  published November 3, 2011

  As taut and economical as its title is unwieldy, Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene — a first feature that won the Best... More >>

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  Your civil rights history, brought to you by Swedish TV, in Black Power Mixtape

  published October 27, 2011

  "The revolution will not be televised." So Gil Scott-Heron asserted in 1970, and so it was not — at least not on American TV. As... More >>

• Ryan Gosling at the wheel in the glossy, retro heist-gone-bad bloodbath, Drive

  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 Winding... More >>

• Negotiating what lies ahead in Miranda July's latest, The Future

  published August 18, 2011

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

• High school outcast finds his place in Terri

  published June 30, 2011

  A genially despised genre appealing to a constant and constantly expanding demographic, the high school movie has for years provided ambitious... More >>

• Will Ferrell, down and out, in Everything Must Go

  published June 2, 2011

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

• Fractured trust in nineteenth-century Oregon in Meek's Cutoff

  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 >>

• Playing mad and loving it in The Beaver

  published May 12, 2011

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

• The beautiful horndogs of Kaboom get blown

  published March 24, 2011

  As spacey as its title suggests, Gregg Araki's latest youth film is an occult mystery set in the ultimate SoCal college playpen. Kaboom... More >>

• A middle-aged naif goes wild in Cedar Rapids

  published February 10, 2011

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

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  In the muck of revolution with White Material

  published January 27, 2011

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

• Seth Rogen schlubs it up as The Green Hornet's masked man

  published January 20, 2011

  Only inertia will bring people to Michel Gondry's 3-D spectacle, The Green Hornet. Opening amid persistent negative buzz in the... More >>