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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2009 Stories by J. Hoberman

• Avatar

  published December 17, 2009

  The money is on the screen in Avatar, James Cameron's mega-3-D, mondo-CGI, more-than-a-quarter-billion-dollar baby, and, like the... More >>

• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

  published December 17, 2009

  The joke's on someone in Werner Herzog's awkwardly titled Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Possibly Abel Ferrara who,... More >>

• Me and Orson Welles

  published December 10, 2009

  Standing O The most significant American artist before Andy Warhol to take "the media" as his medium, Orson Welles lives on not only in... More >>

• The Road

  published November 26, 2009

  The Road, Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning, Oprah-endorsed post-apocalyptic survivalist prose poem — in which a... More >>

• Antichrist

  published November 5, 2009

  Lars von Trier's doggedly outrageous, fearsomely ambitious two-hander is so desperate to make you feel something — if only a terrible... More >>

• The Men Who Stare at Goats

  published November 5, 2009

  Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking: Germany's loss in World War I, the JFK assassination and 9/11 are all naturally... More >>

• Bronson

  published October 29, 2009

  The inmate who renamed himself after a Hollywood action star has been incarcerated for all but a few months of the past 34 years — thirty... More >>

• Flick Pick

  published October 29, 2009

  The inmate who renamed himself after a Hollywood action star has been incarcerated for all but a few months of the past 34 years — thirty of... More >>

• Where the Wild Things Are

  published October 15, 2009

  Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children's picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are may be the... More >>

• Bright Star

  published September 24, 2009

  Set in the bucolic suburbs of early nineteenth-century London, as fresh and dewy as a newly mowed lawn, Jane Campion's Bright... More >>

• Inglourious Basterds

  published August 20, 2009

  Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment —... More >>

• Tulpan

  published July 23, 2009

  A small mob of camels stampedes by a nomad's tent, with something that might once have been a tractor eating the kicked-up dust. Inside, a... More >>

• Bruno

  published July 9, 2009

  Heterosexuals can't understand camp because everything they do is camp," opined an associate of the old Play-House of the Ridiculous, a New... More >>

• Whatever Works

  published July 2, 2009

  Character is destiny — at least for Woody Allen's Whatever Works. Allen's exercise in Woody Allen nostalgia opens with a... More >>

• The Limits of Control

  published May 14, 2009

  Jim Jarmusch's anonymous anti-hero hitman (French-Ivorian actor Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the credits of The Limits of... More >>

• State of Play

  published April 16, 2009

  Kevin Macdonald's Washington thriller is a bellows designed to puff up the most beaten-down reporter's chest. Compressed from the highly... More >>

• Gomorrah

  published March 12, 2009

  Martin Scorsese may be presenting Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah, but this corrosive, slapdash, grimly exciting exposé... More >>

• Watchmen

  published March 5, 2009

  The most eagerly anticipated (as well as the most beleaguered) movie of the year, Watchmen is neither desecratory disaster nor... More >>

• Waltz With Bashir

  published January 8, 2009

  Ari Folman's broodingly original Waltz With Bashir is a documentary that seems only possible, not to mention bearable, as an... More >>

• The Wrestler

  published January 8, 2009

  The Wrestler may be plenty visceral, but it's no more a sports movie than professional wrestling is a competitive sport. Chronic... More >>