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J. Hoberman

J. Hoberman

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:
ARTINFO.com , L.A. Weekly , Village Voice
Critics' Group:
National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
1077
Total QuickRatings:
1077

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57% Film socialisme (2011) " Film Socialisme deflects interpretation but, so long as one subscribes to the William Carlos Williams injunction "No ideas but in things," it's filled with sensuous pleasures." — Village Voice
Posted May 31, 2011
90% Out of the Blue (No Looking Back) (1982) " A genuinely alarming miasma of misplaced sexuality and rock 'n' roll fetishism." — Village Voice
Posted May 31, 2011
90% United Red Army (2011) " Grueling [but] engrossing." — Village Voice
Posted May 24, 2011
75% Everything Must Go (2011) " I can't dismiss the desperate social realism of a movie offering the solace of a bromide found in a fortune cookie." — Village Voice
Posted May 11, 2011
91% City of Life and Death (2011) " Lu's distinction lies in the cinematic virtuosity he brings to orchestrating carnage, the calculated attention he pays to human interest, and the globalist, universalizing attitude inherent in both." — Village Voice
Posted May 11, 2011
71% Octubre (2011) " There's a message here regarding loneliness and emotional isolation, but the movie's real miracle is that, however precious its premise, this slow-burning not-quite heart-warmer never succumbs to cuteness." — Village Voice
Posted May 3, 2011
61% The Beaver (2011) " Mel's character isn't on Prozac, but the movie is -- a succession of bland camera setups, cued to a highly conventional score. Would that the direction were half as nutty as the script or as wacked-out as its star!" — Village Voice
Posted May 3, 2011
96% Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) " One of the few justifiable recent excursions into 3-D." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 26, 2011
95% The Arbor (2011) " Barnard revisits the foredoomed career and tragic afterlife of this slum-born self-educated writer to electrifying effect, shooting mainly on location in Bradford, with actors lip-synched to actual recordings of the people they portray." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 26, 2011
—— Hadaka no shima (Naked Island) (1960) " The Naked Island borders on kitsch. Still, once seen it is not easily forgotten-the myth of Sisyphus transposed to Tahiti. " — Village Voice
Posted Apr 19, 2011
62% To Die Like A Man (2011) " A mysterious, fabulously sad fable about the final months of a fado-singing, pooch-pampering drag diva." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 6, 2011
86% Meek's Cutoff (2011) " Recalls Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man and even Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God in its evocation of frontier surrealism and manifest-destiny madness; the Reichardt approach is, however, more stringent and pointed in its weirdness." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 6, 2011
— —— Jang Aur Aman (War and Peace) () — Village Voice
Posted Apr 4, 2011
92% The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte) (2011) " Grave, beautiful, austerely comic, and casually metempsychotic, Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte is one of the wiggiest nature documentaries -- or almost-documentaries -- ever made." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 29, 2011
50% Mildred Pierce (2012) " The miniseries is far more faithful to the tawdry class shenanigans of Cain's novel than any of the author's characters are to each other." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 22, 2011
98% Taxi Driver (1976) " Like Werner Herzog's Aguirre or Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver is auteurist psychodrama." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 15, 2011
91% La Peau douce (The Soft Skin) (1964) " François Truffaut's fourth feature, The Soft Skin, has never gotten much respect -- even though many people (myself included) regard it as one of his best." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 8, 2011
88% Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) (2011) " Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy is exactly that: The Iranian modernist's first feature to be shot in the West is a flawless riff on our indigenous art cinema." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 8, 2011
—— Diary, 1937-1983 () " A meandering stream of consciousness that mixes daily life with historical events." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 1, 2011
73% The Adjustment Bureau (2011) " The so-called Plan is derailed! " — Village Voice
Posted Mar 1, 2011
90% Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2011) " A work of unostentatious beauty and uncloying sweetness, at once sophisticated and artless, mysterious and matter-of-fact, cosmic and humble." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 1, 2011
94% Journal d'un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest) (1951) " The movie is experiential: The priest's suffering is not to be explained but lived." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 22, 2011
93% Of Gods and Men (2011) " Contemplative as it means to be, Of Gods and Men is not without generic excitement." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 22, 2011
72% We Are What We Are (2011) " We Are What We Are is a darkly comic social allegory as well as an atmospheric little genre flick." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 15, 2011
85% Cedar Rapids (2011) " A mild comedy of embarrassment, set in the dark heart of Middle America." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 8, 2011
38% The Eagle (2011) " A thunderous boys' adventure of the old-school type." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 8, 2011
75% Cold Weather (2011) " Not a riff on mystery stories so much as it is a riff, pure and simple, on the mystery of stories." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 1, 2011
100% Into Eternity (2011) " Defamiliarizing the snowy Nordic landscape, this delicately lurid documentary has a somber beauty. It is meant to boggle the mind and inspire awe-and it does." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 1, 2011
58% Kaboom (2011) " [Araki's] assembled the best-looking cast in town and it's largely his gaga appreciation that makes the movie so much fun." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 25, 2011
75% The Way Back (2011) " There's even a sense in which the movie is about its own logistics, although it would take a fanatic like Werner Herzog to turn that into compelling cinema." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 18, 2011
94% The Woodmans (2011) " A haunting study in family dynamics." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 18, 2011
44% The Green Hornet (2011) " The Green Hornet provides a half-hour's worth of mildly entertaining travesty before collapsing in a clamor of bombastic action sequences and lame wisecracks." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 12, 2011
65% Go Go Tales () " A highly personal movie, Go Go Tales finds Ferrara in a frenzied yet pensive mode." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 4, 2011
65% If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle (2011) " It's a measure of the movie's success that one oscillates between two despairs -- noting the abject failure of the system and the utter futility of revolt." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 4, 2011
90% The Illusionist (L'illusionniste) (2010) " For its 80 minutes, the movie creates the illusion that not just Tati but his form of cerebral slapstick lives." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 21, 2010
96% True Grit (2010) " True Grit is well-wrought, if overly talkative, and seriously ambitious, returning the Coens to the all-American sagebrush and gun smoke landscape that has best nourished their wise-guy sensibility" — Village Voice
Posted Dec 21, 2010
51% Tron Legacy (2010) " Given the movie's graphic pizzazz, the best hippie wisdom Bridges might offer the viewer is: Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream. " — Village Voice
Posted Dec 14, 2010
38% Casino Jack (2010) " An improbably blithe cautionary tale, recounting the rise and fall of D.C. superlobbyist Jack Abramoff." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 14, 2010
91% Vengeance (Fuk sau) (2010) " Vengeance tempers tough-guy sentimentality with schoolyard existentialism." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 7, 2010
90% The Fighter (2010) " After a volatile first half, Micky eclipses Dicky, and The Fighter settles into a predictably rutted narrative arc." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 7, 2010
87% Black Swan (2010) " Black Swan is something like a 100-minute swoon. The camera lurches, leaps, and pirouettes; in some scenes, it feels as if it's being tossed around the stage along with Portman. Kitsch this bombastic becomes something primal." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 30, 2010
0% Nutcracker in 3D (2010) " The wildest thing about this movie is its faith that what kids (and parents) really want for Christmas is a Nutcracker version of the Final Solution." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 23, 2010
94% The King's Speech (2010) " A picnic for Anglophiles, not to mention a prospective Oscar bonanza for the brothers Weinstein, The King's Speech is a well-wrought, enjoyably amusing inspirational drama that successfully humanizes, even as it pokes fun at, the House of Windsor." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 23, 2010
—— Sun Ra - The Cry of Jazz (2004) " Its dramatization of the passionate argument between black and white members of a Chicago "jazz appreciation club" is as provocatively stilted and crudely didactic as anything in Brecht (or Oscar Micheaux)." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 16, 2010
88% White Material (2010) " [Claire Denis's] tense, convulsive White Material is a portrait of change and a thing of terrible beauty." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 16, 2010
—— Voulez-vous coucher avec God? () " Slapdash, but not badly made, this exercise in Yippie vaudeville employs Claymation and television, as well as a bevy of naked houris, to hold one's attention--although it does fall apart midway." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 11, 2010
77% Tiny Furniture (2010) " Tiny Furniture is a comedy of youthful confusion that gets its kick not only for evoking a world of unromantic hookups, casual BJs, and iPhone porn, but for satirizing New York's bourgeois bohemia." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 9, 2010
90% Ne change rien (2010) " Call it the Passion of Jeanne: Accompanied for much of the movie by a single reverb-heavy guitar and a snare drum, Balibar demonstrates a carefully calibrated lack of affect and a voice as smoky as a carton of Gitanes." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 2, 2010
90% Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2010) " The movie is at once fresh and retro, a casual three-mumblechord affair glamorized by its exuberant nostalgia for pop bop of the late '50s and the then-new wave excitement of Shadows and Breathless." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 2, 2010
88% Inspector Bellamy (2010) " It's an ostensive crime film at once symmetrical, surprising, and knowingly cinephilic." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 26, 2010
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