Awards
2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards , published October 13, 2009
2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards , published September 29, 2009
2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards , published February 4, 2009
2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards , published June 12, 2008
2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards , published September 18, 2008
2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards , published January 24, 2008
2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards , published December 5, 2006
2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards , published May 16, 2006
2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards , published March 14, 2006
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2011 Stories by J. HOBERMAN
published December 29, 2011
A Separation—the fifth feature by Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi—is an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to... More >>
published December 22, 2011
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is hardly a personal project. Still, David Fincher's sveltely malevolent remake of the 2009... More >>
published December 22, 2011
A doggedly overwrought production less felt than facile, Steven Spielberg's War Horse is an essentially uninvolving prestige... More >>
published December 22, 2011
The past 12 months brought a number of powerful, introspective, big-theme cine-statements, many of them by old masters (see below). Some... More >>
published December 8, 2011
Described as a "psychotic prom-queen bitch," the anti-heroine of Young Adult is a prize part that affords Charlize Theron one of the... More >>
published December 8, 2011
John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the 1974 spy novel generally regarded as the writer's finest, is predicated on a... More >>
published December 1, 2011
Steve McQueen's first two films both star Michael Fassbender, feature virtually interchangeable titles, and are nearly as grueling to watch as... More >>
published November 24, 2011
A Dangerous Method, the title of David Cronenberg's viscerally cerebral new film, is something of an understatement. As cataclysmic as... More >>
published November 17, 2011
As life-or-death dramedy, The Descendants poses several important questions: Why has it taken Alexander Payne seven years to follow up... More >>
published November 10, 2011
The first thing you see in Lars von Trier's Melancholia is a tight close-up of Kirsten Dunst's face. Behind her, slow as molasses,... More >>
published November 10, 2011
A resounding "yes" to the question trembling on every lip: There is life after Hereafter! Clint Eastwood goes deep into Oliver Stone... More >>
published October 27, 2011
Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary is what the Brits might call a rum movie—an oddly inoffensive piece and a... More >>
published October 20, 2011
As taut and economical as its title is unwieldy, Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene—a first feature that won the Best... More >>
published September 15, 2011
As stripped-down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most "American" movie yet by Danish genre director Nicolas Winding... More >>
published September 8, 2011
"The revolution will not be televised." So Gil Scott-Heron asserted in 1970, and so it was not—at least not on American TV. As... More >>
published September 1, 2011
Sometimes it's easier for life to imitate art than vice versa—witness French cartoonist Joann Sfar's first feature, an ambitious attempt... More >>
published August 25, 2011
The 1990s coinage ostalgie, which combines the German words for "east" and "nostalgia," describes a particular sort of longing.... More >>
published August 18, 2011
John Sayles's Amigo aspires more to educate than entertain, but it's no less engrossing for that. Torn from the pages of history, if... More >>
published August 4, 2011
The subject of Magic Trip is the LSD-powered, cross-country road movie orchestrated by novelist Ken Kesey in the summer of '64. More... More >>
published July 28, 2011
Is there such thing as a sincerely calculated naïveté? Or put another way, does Miranda July have any idea of how... More >>
published July 14, 2011
As a documentarian, Errol Morris is less a humanist than a connoisseur of “human interest,” and Tabloid, his ecstatically... More >>
published July 7, 2011
Where once there were millions, there are now, at best, a few hundred thousand Yiddish speakers—mostly ultra-orthodox Jews, klezmer... More >>
published June 30, 2011
A genially despised genre appealing to a constant and constantly expanding demographic, the high school movie has for years provided ambitious... More >>
published June 16, 2011
Nobody cries, “Stop the presses!” in Andrew Rossi’s Page One: Inside The New York Times; no one would dare.... More >>
published June 9, 2011
A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams' much-anticipated, greatly enjoyable Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory. Opening three... More >>
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