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A Separation is an urgent courtroom drama that puts you in the jury box

By J. Hoberman
Jan 31, 2012

A Separation — which just received Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Film — is an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you in the jury box. Dispensing with preliminaries, it opens at a judicial hearing where, both facing the camera that stands in for the...
The bombastic War Horse is classic Spielberg

By J. Hoberman
Dec 27, 2011

A doggedly overwrought production less felt than facile, Steven Spielberg's War Horse is an essentially uninvolving prestige adaptation. It might be perverse to accuse a tearjerker as accomplished as Spielberg of being unfeeling. But the overcalculation with which he mechanically trots out one of his most familiar tropes for what...
A Dangerous Method is both an intriguing narrative and a splendid love story

By J. Hoberman
Dec 27, 2011

A Dangerous Method, the title of David Cronenberg's viscerally cerebral new film, is something of an understatement. As cataclysmic as it is, this historically scrupulous science-fiction romance concerning the discovery of the unconscious mind might have been titled War of the Worlds or The Beast From 5000 Fathoms. Adapted by...
The U.S. version of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is leaner, meaner, more stylish

By J. Hoberman
Dec 20, 2011

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is hardly a personal project. Still, David Fincher's sveltely malevolent remake of the 2009 Swedish blockbuster directed by Niels Arden Oplev from Stieg Larsson's rambling thriller — a posthumously published international bestseller and Kindle record-holder — is a recognizably Fincherian caper. The movie, which...
In Shame, Carey Mulligan's blowsy desperation makes for the movie's best turn

By J. Hoberman
Dec 13, 2011

Steve McQueen's first two films both star Michael Fassbender, feature virtually interchangeable titles, and are nearly as grueling to watch as they must have been to make. But where Shame might be nearly as excruciating as 2008's Hunger, it's a lot less exalted. In Hunger, Fassbender's imprisoned Irish revolutionary Bobby...

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