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

• "Terri": Winningly Sweet and Strange High School Film

  published July 13, 2011

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

• "Tabloid": Errol Morris Doc Covers UK Media Freak Show

  published July 13, 2011

  As a documentarian, Errol Morris is less a humanist than a connoisseur of "human interest," and Tabloid, his ecstatically received and... More >>

• Evolution and Big Media

  published June 29, 2011

  Nobody cries, "Stop the presses!" in Andrew Rossi's Page One: Inside the New York Times; no one would dare. There's a palpable fear... More >>

• "The Trip": Road Film with Brit Comics Drolly Charms

  published June 15, 2011

  Cobbled together from a six-part BBC2 miniseries telecast last fall, The Trip is a talkative faux-reality road film largely improvised... More >>

• Quiet Evolution

  published June 15, 2011

  Grave, beautiful, austerely comic, and casually metempsychotic, Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte is one of the wiggiest... More >>

• "Super 8": Big Explosions, Big Fun in J.J. Abrams' Newest

  published June 8, 2011

  A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams's much-anticipated, greatly enjoyable Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory. Opening three... More >>

• Dear Future: What Were We Thinking?

  published May 25, 2011

  Danish artist Michael Madsen’s Into Eternity documents what amounts to an antimonument to negativity. Admirably... More >>

• Cannes 2011: What to See from the Best Festival in Years

  published May 25, 2011

  CANNES, FRANCE. The last day screening of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's ruminative, challenging Once Upon a Time in Anatolia strengthened an... More >>

• Early Cannes Report: Troubled Parents, Troubled Kids Aplenty

  published May 18, 2011

  Midway through the Cannes Film Festival, the competition has been all about family — more specifically all about parents (and parent... More >>

• "Everything Must Go": Will Ferrell Stops Mugging for Down-and-Out Drama

  published May 11, 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": Mel Gibson and His Puppet's Strange Return to Screen

  published May 4, 2011

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

• "Meek's Cutoff": Kelly Reichardt's Trippy, Existential Frontier Masterpiece

  published May 4, 2011

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• Magic, Real and Imagined

  published March 16, 2011

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

• An Unnerving Look Back at the Meltdown

  published March 16, 2011

  Inside Job is Charles Ferguson's follow-up to his Iraq War gut-twister No End in Sight. Twenty minutes into this lucid yet... More >>

• "Kaboom": Gregg Araki's Beautiful Horndogs Get Blown

  published February 16, 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 >>

• An Unnerving Look Back at the Meltdown

  published February 16, 2011

  Inside Job is Charles Ferguson's follow-up to his Iraq War gut-twister No End in Sight. Twenty minutes into this lucid yet... More >>

• Ambi-Curious

  published February 16, 2011

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

• Magic -- Real and Imagined

  published February 16, 2011

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

• "Cedar Rapids": An Innocent Insurance Salesman Cuts Loose

  published February 9, 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 >>

• "The Eagle": A Neophyte Roman General Leads a Boy's Adventure

  published February 9, 2011

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

• "The Way Back": Survival of the fittest

  published January 19, 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's superhero can't save this movie

  published January 12, 2011

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

• Magic, Real and Imagined

  published January 5, 2011

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