Email Author J. Hoberman

Awards

• 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"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 13, 2009

  "Let the Mild Rumpus Start!"

• 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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2007 Stories by J. Hoberman

• Situation No Win

  published January 23, 2007

  The Situation, Philip Haas's deftly paced, well-written, and brilliantly infuriating Iraq War thriller is not only the strongest of recent... More >>

• The Poetry of Decay

  published January 16, 2007

  Bill Morrison isn't the first artist to take decomposing film stock as his raw material, but he plunges into this dark nitrate of the soul with... More >>

• Before They Were Stars

  published January 16, 2007

  Old-school genre junk food: A cheap 79-minute time-waster that's all business (as opposed to busy-ness), with a deservedly minor star, written... More >>

• The Wonder Boys

  published January 9, 2007

  Born in Philadelphia, based in London, identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay live in some imaginary early-20th-century Mitteleuropa. Their... More >>

• The Best of Youth

  published January 9, 2007

  Austere, underlit, uncompromisingly lackadaisical at three hours, and anachronistic in a half dozen ways, Regular Lovers is the first New... More >>

• I Spy a Corny Thriller

  published January 2, 2007

  The notion that the movies make voyeurs of us all may be the most venerable of cinema-studies chestnuts—but it's scarcely less true for that.... More >>

• Trial and Terror

  published January 2, 2007

  After 20 months and 300 witnesses, "the horrific has become almost routine." So the narrator notes late in Verdict on Auschwitz, a 1993... More >>