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Family Court

You are the judge in the high-stakes Iranian legal drama A Separation.

By J. Hoberman
Feb 15, 2012

A Separation — the fifth feature by Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi — 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 judge, a quarrelsome husband and...
What Do Men Want

The birth of psychoanalysis in A Dangerous Method.

By J. Hoberman
Dec 21, 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...
Taming Creatures

World War I gets the Spielberg treatment in War Horse.

By J. Hoberman
Dec 21, 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...
New Girl in Town

Rooney Mara takes control of the Stieg Larsson juggernaut in Dragon Tattoo.

By J. Hoberman
Dec 21, 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 opens with...
Body Horror

Extreme sex addiction in Shame.

By J. Hoberman
Dec 14, 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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