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J. HOBERMAN
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• L.A. Weekly
• Village Voice

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Total Reviews: 829

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• National Society of Film Critics
• New York Film Critics Circle


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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

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"Paraguayan Hammock is like a piece of music that improves with familiarity." -- Village Voice
Posted May 14, 2008
 
Paraguayan Hammock (2008)50%
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"Paraguayan Hammock is like a piece of music that improves with familiarity." -- Village Voice
Posted May 14, 2008
 
Theater of War (2008)n/a
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"The result is contrived, but compelling -- as is the movie's high-powered humanism." -- Village Voice
Posted May 14, 2008
 
Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008)72%
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"Ideologically anti-corporate, previous Wachowski productions aspired to be something more than mind-less sensation; Speed Racer is thrilled to be less. It's the delusions minus the grandeur." -- Village Voice
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)34%
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"Ostensibly a conventional tale of triad loyalty, As Tears Go By announced the presence of a genuine Hong Kong new wave -- as well as an ambitious cineaste." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
As Tears Go By (1988)71%
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"With his 10th feature -- an entertaining tale of high-stakes martial arts -- Mamet has infused the sleight of hand with a measure of two-fisted action." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 29, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)71%
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"A multilayered, self-consciously Joycean, naturally psychedelic epic." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 29, 2008
 
Dog Star Man (1964)100%
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"Unfortunately, nothing in Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo is funnier than its title." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2008
 
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)56%
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"Since The Thin Blue Line's remarkable intervention, Morris's work has grown more public and more problematic -- lofty yet snide, a form of know-it-all epistemological inquiry." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 23, 2008
 
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)78%
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"A cynic might view Spurlock's seven-month exploration of civilization's cradle as a form of conjugal competition." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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"However artless its presentation, Stalags imparts material that's difficult to shake off and impossible to dismiss." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 8, 2008
 
Stalags (2008)50%
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"Indifferently shot and only competently acted, Tehilim derives its emotional force from the inchoate spiritual torment that the older son suffers." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 8, 2008
 
Tehilim (2007)29%
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"By any standard, a long strange trip." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 2, 2008
 
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)89%
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"Bleakly wistful, regarding its essentially lonely characters with a gaze both tender and lethal." -- Village Voice
Posted Apr 2, 2008
 
Jellyfish (2008)81%
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"Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Alexandra (2008)95%
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"There's basically only one reason to see Olivier Assayas's self-consciously hypermodern, meta-sleazy, English-French-Chinese-language globo-thriller Boarding Gate, and her name is Asia Argento." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 18, 2008
 
Boarding Gate (2007)26%
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"Easily fits the paradigm parodied by Funny Games. The difference: This movie actually has a political point." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 11, 2008
 
Blind Mountain (2008)77%
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"Without ever acknowledging his own sadism, Haneke self-righteously lays his aesthetic and moral cards on the table." -- Village Voice
Posted Mar 11, 2008
 
Funny Games (2008)49%
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"A Face in the Crowd has never ceased to be relevant." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 27, 2008
 
A Face in the Crowd (1957)90%
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"However authentically chaotic, Chicago 10 is insufficiently frenzied. For all its shock value, the trial was not the only game in town." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 27, 2008
 
Chicago 10 (2008)77%
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"A fragile, somewhat precious celebration of DIY filmmaking and cult-film consumption." -- Village Voice
Posted Feb 20, 2008
 
Be Kind Rewind (2008)65%
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"At once cerebral film essay and unsweetened ear candy, Pere Portabella's The Silence Before Bach is nearly as tough to categorize as its maker." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 29, 2008
 
Silence Before Bach, The (2008)91%
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"As the current obsession with Reagan suggests, it's back to fantasyland!" -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 29, 2008
 
Rambo (2008)33%
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"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a movie one watches in a state of mounting dread. Romanian writer-director Cristian Mungiu's brilliantly discomfiting second feature is one long premonition of disaster." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2008
 
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)96%
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"What's striking about Still Life is its micro-analytical curiosity: Judgment seems suspended -- like the bridge that magically lights up over the Yangtze or the unlikely tightrope walker glimpsed in the movie's last shot." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 15, 2008
 
Still Life (2008)93%
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"The movie is what it is -- a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside of time, and a shocking intimation of perfection." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 15, 2008
 
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)93%
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"[An] immaculately constructed movie." -- Village Voice
Posted Jan 8, 2008
 
Woman on the Beach (2008)86%
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"This is truly a work of symphonic aspirations and masterful execution." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
There Will Be Blood (2007)91%
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"As much as he's a filmmaker, Burton is also a graphic artist in the tradition of Charles Addams and Edward Gorey -- and here he's successfully incorporated Sweeney Todd into his own distinctively dank and spidery gothic world." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 18, 2007
 
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)86%
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"Two-Lane Blacktop is a movie of achingly eloquent landscapes and absurdly inert characters." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 13, 2007
 
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)92%
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"That Williams's personality never comes into focus has the effect of making his 15 minutes of fame all the more sad and ghostly." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 11, 2007
 
A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007)75%
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"This is hardly Coppola's greatest movie, but it's far from his worst -- its bid for a new beginning is one from the heart." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 11, 2007
 
Youth Without Youth (2007)29%
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"A movie of undeniable gravitas and monumentality -- even if it is too fond of its own effects." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 4, 2007
 
The Violin (2007)97%
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"This is a serious movie and, gliding around the center of power, a stylish one. But, like its protagonist, The Walker is unable to close the deal." -- Village Voice
Posted Dec 4, 2007
 
The Walker (2007)51%
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"A dark and smoky affair that, although set in Germany during the Black Death summer of 1349, suggests something brainstormed in a St. Marks Place head shop." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 14, 2007
 
The Pied Piper (1972)40%
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"Bergman's tale of heedless teenage love is a sort of neorealist Rebel Without a Cause -- except that sex is acknowledged and the outlaw is a girl." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2007
 
Monika (1952)100%
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"The most authentic thing about Redacted is the rage with which it was made." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2007
 
Redacted (2007)44%
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"Rivette's last shot is an extraordinary throwaway that provoked spontaneous applause for being at once completely ordinary, totally unexpected, and positively diabolical in shifting the meaning of the entire previous 12 1/2 hours." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 12, 2007
 
Out 1, Noli Me Tangere (1971)100%
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"In its willful, self-involved eccentricity, Southland Tales is really something else. Kelly's movie may not be entirely coherent, but that's because there's so much it wants to say." -- Village Voice
Posted Nov 6, 2007
 
Southland Tales (2007)35%
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"In this overwhelmingly beautiful movie, a sad, short, brutalized life is elevated to ecstatic myth." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 30, 2007
 
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964)100%
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"Ambitious as American Gangster is, it's well suited to Denzel Washington's particular star quality." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 30, 2007
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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"The astonishingly beautiful Earth is unlike anything else in movies." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 23, 2007
 
Earth (1930)82%
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"A book tour isn't even a political campaign, and traveling with Jimmy Carter isn't exactly going backstage with the Rolling Stones." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 23, 2007
 
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007)79%
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"Three years after being presented a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, the 83-year-old director comes forth with a violent family melodrama that is his strongest movie in at least two decades." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 23, 2007
 
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)88%
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"A mock spaghetti western that manages to be both parody and homage, albeit less western than spaghetti." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 16, 2007
 
Dead Man's Bounty (2007)42%
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"A well-wrought indie written and directed by Goran Dukic." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 16, 2007
 
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)66%
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"Come and See, the last and most notable film made by the former Soviet director Elem Klimov, is another fusion of popular and vanguard styles, albeit put to more civic-minded use." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 15, 2007
 
Come and See (1985)93%
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"Not just a period film, La Chinoise...is a chunk of the period." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 10, 2007
 
La Chinoise (1967)100%
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"Engrossing." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 9, 2007
 
Terror's Advocate (2007)84%
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"More human interest than agitprop." -- Village Voice
Posted Oct 2, 2007
 
For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)93%

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