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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2006 Stories by J. Hoberman

• Don't Believe the Hype

  published December 28, 2006

  History repeats itself: Eleven Decembers ago, Universal had the season's strongest movie -- a downbeat sci-fi flick freely adapted from a... More >>

• Sugar Tit Tribe

  published December 7, 2006

  Apocalypto has a faux Greek title and an opening quote from historian Will Durant that ruminates on the decline of imperial Rome. It... More >>

• Fountain of Shame

  published November 23, 2006

  Solemn, flashy and flabbergasting, The Fountain -- adapted by Darren Aronofsky from his own graphic novel -- should really be called... More >>

• There's the Beef

  published November 16, 2006

  Fast Food Nation, directed by Richard Linklater from Eric Schlosser's 2001 best-selling exposé of the McDonald's conspiracy, is an a... More >>

• On the Road

  published November 2, 2006

  Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is funnier than its malapropic title -- the... More >>

• Assassination Tango

  published October 26, 2006

  Manufactured history guarantees a manufactured controversy: Gabriel Range's Death of a President, which docu-dramatizes the 2007... More >>

• French Confection

  published October 19, 2006

  Drop-dead hip or cluelessly clueless? Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, a candy-colored portrait of France's infamous teen queen, is a... More >>

• Bait and Switch

  published October 5, 2006

  No studio director was a greater hero to the Hong Kong new wave than Martin Scorsese. John Woo dedicated The Killer to him; Wong Kar-wai... More >>

• Playtime

  published September 28, 2006

  Sweet, crazy and tinged with sadness, Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep is a wondrous concoction. The tricksy romantic story --... More >>

• The Black Dahlia

  published September 14, 2006

  Directed by Brian De Palma from the novel by neo-noirist James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia is a true-crime policier unfolding in... More >>

• Hollywoodland

  published September 7, 2006

  If Superman Returns attempted to resurrect the Man of Steel as mythic hero, the season's other Superman movie wants to disabuse us of any... More >>

• Tube Boobs

  published April 20, 2006

  Wanna knock the prez? Let's make a show...preferably on television. Paul Weitz's new satire American Dreamz imagines the Bush regime... More >>