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

• "True Grit": The Coen brothers' perverse buddy tale

  published December 22, 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 >>

• J. Hoberman's Top 10 Movies of 2010

  published December 22, 2010

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

• Children sentenced to a certain fate

  published December 22, 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 Fighter": Boxer biopic falls through the ropes

  published December 15, 2010

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

• "Tron: Legacy": Jeff Bridges is God and Devil of a stunning, incomprehensible videogame world

  published December 15, 2010

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

• Beat to the Punch

  published December 15, 2010

  Boxing Gym is 80-year-old documentarian Frederick Wiseman's 38th feature. Despite its relatively modest length and ordinary subject... More >>

• "The King's Speech": Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter humanize the House of Windsor

  published December 8, 2010

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

• "Tiny Furniture": Lena Dunham satirizes New York's bourgeois bohemia

  published December 8, 2010

  Winner of last spring's SXSW festival and current indie darling, Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture is a comedy of youthful confusion that... More >>

• "Black Swan": Natalie Portman goes batshit in a tutu

  published December 1, 2010

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

• "White Material": Isabelle Huppert anchors Claire Denis' colonial Africa movie

  published November 24, 2010

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

• Get Out of Africa

  published November 24, 2010

  Claire Denis's tense, convulsive White Material is a portrait of change and a thing of terrible beauty. The time is unspecified. The... More >>

• "Hereafter": Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon make a puddle of psychic ick

  published October 20, 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 cowboy icon... More >>

• "Inside Job": Charles Ferguson's meltdown doc will make you seethe

  published October 20, 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 >>

• "Tamara Drew": Stephen Frears and Gemma Arterton go plastic in rural England

  published October 13, 2010

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

• Permanent Government

  published October 13, 2010

  Inside Job, Charles Ferguson's follow-up to his Iraq War gut-twister No End in Sight, is a documentary that inspires sickening ire—20... More >>

• "The Social Network": David Fincher on Facebook's unlovable creator, Mark Zuckerberg

  published September 29, 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 >>

• "Never Let Me Go": Children sentenced to a certain fate

  published September 22, 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 Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector" lives up to its title

  published September 8, 2010

  A feature-length portrait of a pop music genius as (pre-)convicted murderer, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector lives up to its... More >>

• Mark Ruffalo Has Two Mommies

  published August 25, 2010

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

• "Lebanon": Inside an Israeli tank and the reality of war

  published August 18, 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 >>

• "Life During Wartime": Todd Solondz returns with a scary update

  published August 4, 2010

  Elegant opening credits, written as if calligraphy on a wedding invitation, yield to a couple in blunt close-up — unhappy, interracial,... More >>

• Endless Summer

  published July 28, 2010

  A docu-fiction hybrid, Pedro González-Rubio's film Alamar records, as it partakes of, a 5-year-old boy's dream vacation.... More >>

• "Anton Chekhov's The Duel": A successful literary adaptation

  published July 21, 2010

  Celebrants of the bourgeoisie love Anton Chekhov in part because he dignifies the inconsequential lives of a superfluous class. There's more... More >>

• She's Funny

  published July 21, 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 >>

• The Kids Are All Right

  published July 14, 2010

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