Email Author J. Hoberman

Awards

• 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"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 13, 2009

  "Let the Mild Rumpus Start!"

• 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

• The Village Voice's J. Hoberman Unveils His Favorite Films 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: How the West Is Won

  published December 23, 2010

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

• Tron: Legacy: Blissing Out on the 3-D CGI to Totally 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 King's Speech: How Therapy Saved the Monarchy

  published December 16, 2010

  A picnic for Anglophiles, The King's Speech is a well-wrought, enjoyably amusing inspirational drama that successfully humanizes, even... More >>

• The Fighter: The Micky Ward Story Falls Through the Ropes in a Too-Familiar Film

  published December 16, 2010

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

• Black Swan: Natalie Portman Goes Batshit in a Tutu

  published December 9, 2010

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

• Boxing Gym: Frederick Wiseman Displays the Beauty and Rhythm of the Fight

  published December 2, 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 >>

• 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 >>

• Inside Job Will Make You Seethe

  published October 28, 2010

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

• Clint Eastwood Chokes the Life Out of Hereafter

  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 last... More >>

• Never Let Me Go: Children Are Sentenced to a Certain Fate

  published October 7, 2010

  Published five years ago, Kazuo Ishiguro's massively praised Never Let Me Go is set in an alternate universe where life has been... More >>

• The Social Network: David Fincher Comments on Mark Zuckerberg's Status

  published September 30, 2010

  The Social Network is a wonderful title, at once Olympian in its detachment and self-descriptive in its buzz. Everyone will opine (and... More >>

• Lebanon Takes You Inside an Israeli Tank and the Reality of War

  published September 9, 2010

  Lebanon, written and directed by Samuel Maoz, is not just the year's most impressive first feature but also the strongest new movie of... More >>

• Wild Grass: Alain Resnais Does His Carrot-Topped Muse No Favors

  published July 29, 2010

  Alain Resnais' Wild Grass has plenty of fans — it copped an award at Cannes in 2009 — but I don't see what they see. The... More >>

• The Kids Are All Right's Warm and Fuzzy Lesbian Family Values

  published July 15, 2010

  Serious comedy, powered by an enthusiastic cast and full of good-natured innuendo, Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right gives... More >>

• Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work: Getting Old Isn't for Sissies

  published June 24, 2010

  Opening with a close-up of the crow's feet around its subject's eyes and expanding to reveal her Botox-frozen upper lip, the documentary-portrait... More >>

• Greenberg: Noah Baumbach Goes West for His Latest Self-Obsessed, Unlikable Protagonist

  published March 25, 2010

  Sad, funny, and acutely self-conscious, Noah Baumbach's new movie is the sort of mordant character study that people imagine were common in the... More >>

• Like a WMD, Matt Damon Blows Up America's Big Lie in The Green Zone

  published March 11, 2010

  Better late than never — a bang-bang pulse-pounder predicated on the Bush administration's deliberate fabrication of WMD 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 accounts,... More >>

• The White Ribbon: There's a Certainty at the End of Ribbon — and a Sure Hand Behind It

  published February 11, 2010

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

• The Lovely Bones: Peter Jackson’s Use of 3-D CGI Renders This Film One-Dimensional

  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 decade's prime... More >>

• Year in Flim: Best Films of the Decade

  published January 7, 2010

  Looking back on a decade dominated by the movie franchise — Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and... More >>