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

• Like a Complete Unknown

  published November 29, 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 really... More >>

• Revelations

  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 >>

• All in the Family

  published November 8, 2007

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

• Social Suicide

  published November 8, 2007

  Wristcutters: A Love Story, a well-wrought indie written and directed by Goran Dukic, has to be the kewpie doll of current zombie flicks:... More >>

• Protect the Legacy

  published November 8, 2007

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

• Harlem Knight

  published November 1, 2007

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

• Anatomy of a Murder

  published October 11, 2007

  Calling all pundits. It's a baffling caprice of the zeitgeist to have two studio Westerns released in the same season, 30-odd years after the... More >>

• Still Cronenberg

  published September 20, 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 >>

• L.A. Story

  published August 2, 2007

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

• Man Down

  published July 19, 2007

  Nothing if not appropriate for summer blockbuster season, Werner Herzog's latest feature, based on his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to... 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 >>

• Nancy Drew: The New Sincerity

  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 >>

• Suffocation

  published June 7, 2007

  Mystery man of the long-ago Australian new wave, Ray Lawrence evidently has grown less finicky. Lawrence, now 59, made his feature debut with the... More >>

• Goal(s)!

  published May 17, 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 19, 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 >>

• Nostalgia Trip

  published February 1, 2007

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

• Ace Up His Sleeve

  published January 25, 2007

  New-school genre junk food: Take a Tarantino wanna-be with Sundance credentials, add a large, famous-enough cast and a show-biz backdrop, season... More >>

• Magic Touch

  published January 18, 2007

  Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth is something alchemical. To an astonishing degree, the 42-year-old Mexican... More >>