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ARTINFO.com is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): J. Hoberman
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
The Hunger Games (2012)

J. Hoberman

The Hunger Games is undeniably progressive in making its protagonist so plucky, independent, and self-actualizing a young woman.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
2
Bonsái (2012)

J. Hoberman

Chilean director Cristián Jiménez's "Bonsái" is the essence of cosmopolitan provincialism. A superbly grounded, programmatically small, meta-literary tragicomedy of student-boho life.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
3
Damsels in Distress (2012)

J. Hoberman

[Damsels in Distress] is genteel lowbrow farce, with musical comedy aspirations.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
4
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

J. Hoberman

The Dark Knight Rises not only celebrates a caped Übermensch but is itself, as a commercial enterprise, something beyond good and evil.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
5
John Carter (2012)

J. Hoberman

For the most part, the first "live action" feature by Andrew Stanton, is graphically splendiferous and enjoyably nonsensical.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
6
Post Mortem (2012)

J. Hoberman

Building in intensity, this is a movie that's both elusive and visceral in its metaphors. The perverse anti-virtuosity of the filmmaking heightens the sense of pervasive shabbiness and ineptitude. It's a new and original vision of political terror.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
7
Artificial Paradises (2012)

J. Hoberman

Paraisos Artificiales is an exemplary situation documentary that employs one professional actor, Luisa Pardo, and a single location, Playa Jicacal, as the basis for an 83-minute movie that's as much reverie as narrative.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
8
Keep the Lights On (2012)

J. Hoberman

The movie's elaborately failed closure only makes sense once you understand that the filmmaker's all-too-human desire for self-justification apparently trumped the ruthless self-control required to make a work of art.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
9
Cloud Atlas (2012)

J. Hoberman

I wouldn't call The Cloud Atlas pure cinema, but... the mix and mash trumps the balderdash.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
10
The Master (2012)

J. Hoberman

The main thing is that The Master is so unlike anything else in its seriousness and so admirable in its vitality that one has to support it.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
11
Let The Fire Burn (2013)

J. Hoberman

The violent clash between constitutional freedoms and social society, not to mention the racial conflict, make for a very American story.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
12
Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors (2014)

J. Hoberman

The sub working-class, Latino milieu shades more exotic than authentic, but the cast is terrific, the movie is extremely well-shot up close and personal.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
13
The Grandmaster (2013)

J. Hoberman

The Grandmaster strikes me as Wong's strongest film since In the Mood for Love and surprisingly credible as an exercise in kung fu stylistics as well as temps perdu.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
14
Burning Bush (2014)

J. Hoberman

The opening is sensational and, as if the narrative weren't compelling enough, [Agnieszka] Holland keeps trying to top it for the rest of the movie with a hectic, hyper dramatic camera style.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
15
Le Joli Mai (1963)

J. Hoberman

What is astonishing about the movie, even today, is the joie de vivre, cinematic and otherwise, with which it levels its critique.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
16
La Beauté du Diable (Beauty and the Devil) (1950)

J. Hoberman

However fusty and old-fashioned, La Beauté du Diable burnished my appreciation for Michel Simon's comic gifts.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
17
Four Bags Full (La Traversée de Paris) (1957)

J. Hoberman

In essence, A Pig Across Paris plays the German occupation for slapstick comedy.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
18
Céline et Julie Vont en Bateau (Celine and Julie Go Boating) (1974)

J. Hoberman

Celine and Julie is verdant, airy, and playful.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
19
Dark Shadows (2012)

J. Hoberman

Sad to report, the [Tim] Burton opus is an unnecessarily complicated tale involving too many characters, not to mention an unresolved moral conundrum that has us happily rooting for an unapologetic mass serial killer.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
20
Elena (2012)

J. Hoberman

Andrey Zvyagintsev is the most internationally-acclaimed Russian filmmaker to emerge during the Putin era, and his expertly directed third feature Elena is, albeit oblique, the most vivid evocation I've seen of Moscow's contemporary society.
Posted Feb 25, 2019
21
Bernie (2012)

J. Hoberman

Bernie lacks the edge of malice one might reasonably expect from so nasty a tale.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
22
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

J. Hoberman

The movie's mad gusto is truly infectious.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
23
2 Days in New York (2012)

J. Hoberman

2 Days in New York is initially quite pleasing in its chaotic near slapstick but the non-stop manic insouciance grows wearisome and ultimately self-indulgent.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
24
Almayer's Folly (2012)

J. Hoberman

Almayer's Folly, is a brilliant, wayward mash-up suggesting European colonialism as a madman's fantasy.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
25
Cosmopolis (2012)

J. Hoberman

Cosmopolis is as an exercise in outlandish dialogue and bone-dry humor, a contemporary allegory that is also a sustained riff on the idea of a virtual world.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
26
Lawless (2012)

J. Hoberman

Lawless wants to be something larger than life, but it's too joyless to be a tall tale and too self-satisfied for tragedy.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
27
The Gatekeepers (2013)

J. Hoberman

Six smart, tough guys, tightly framed and talking to the camera: Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh's compelling Oscar-nominated doc The Gatekeepers gives the voice of experience a human face.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
28
Caesar Must Die (2013)

J. Hoberman

Despite its lean and hungry look, the Taviani Brothers' Caesar Must Die may be the most effectively gimmicked version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in the 75 years since Orson Welles's modern-dress, anti-fascist staging.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
29
Side Effects (2013)

J. Hoberman

Side Effects showcases much of what the just 50-year-old filmmaker does best.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
30
Le Pont du Nord (1981)

J. Hoberman

What the Surrealists found in Louis Feuillade's World War I serials, we can find here. [Jacques] Rivette too renders the ordinary dreamlike by filming his fantasy-driven actors in the midst of life.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
31
Blancanieves (2013)

J. Hoberman

Filmed in glamorous black and white, all dialogue furnished via intertitles, the movie is less a pastiche than The Artist and, at least initially, it's not as precious.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
32
To The Wonder (2013)

J. Hoberman

Where The Tree of Life was sanctimonious, To the Wonder is about the failure of sanctimony.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
33
This Ain't California (2013)

J. Hoberman

This Ain't California is what the Germans would call a "sehr schöne Märchen."
Posted Feb 22, 2019
34
Post Tenebras Lux (2013)

J. Hoberman

If only the movie were as terrific as its 10-minute pre-title sequence.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
35
Behind the Candelabra (2013)

J. Hoberman

Although Behind the Candelabra may be Soderbergh's swan song, it's an uncanny resurrection of the creature that was Liberace.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
36
Something in the Air (2013)

J. Hoberman

The great thing about Something in the Air is that the movie makes the thrill of that brief but all-encompassing rupture apparent without sentimentality or even (excessive) nostalgia.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
37
The Great Gatsby (2013)

J. Hoberman

Subtlety is not a concept but giddy as it is, The Great Gatsby lacks the lunatic excess of Moulin Rouge!
Posted Feb 22, 2019
38
The Bling Ring (2013)

J. Hoberman

The Bling Ring is basically the same thing over and over.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
39
I'm So Excited! (2013)

J. Hoberman

I'm So Excited! is a bit repetitive, but it's unashamedly frivolous and often very funny.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
40
Museum Hours (2013)

J. Hoberman

Museum Hours offers neither a city symphony nor a love story but a serenely eccentric way of looking.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
41
Viola (2013)

J. Hoberman

Viola, [Matias] Piñeiro's latest film is his most accomplished film to date, at once lucid and opaque using an amateur, all-female production of Shakespeare's cross-dressing comedy Twelfth Night.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
42
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)

J. Hoberman

[Ain't Them Bodies Saints] is... beautifully shot, highly aestheticized, ponderously lyrical, dramatically inert, lugubriously scored, and weirdly sanctimonious.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
43
Computer Chess (2013)

J. Hoberman

A double or maybe a triple nerd-fest, influential independent Andrew Bujalski's typically deadpan Computer Chess is a small movie with a comic novel premise and a near cosmic theme.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
44
Enough Said (2013)

J. Hoberman

Enough Said is cute but restrained, despite the plethora of age jokes.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
45
Captain Phillips (2013)

J. Hoberman

The Navy SEALS procedural is a bit of a jumble even as it comfortingly demonstrates American competence in the face of a standoff. Still, it's the captain's passion that gives the movie its emotional intensity.
Posted Feb 22, 2019
46
The Fifth Estate (2013)

J. Hoberman

Given its own aggressive attention deficit disorder, The Fifth Estate is the sort of movie that might induce a migraine.
Posted Feb 21, 2019
47
Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013)

J. Hoberman

The most discomfiting thing about Blue [Is The Warmest Color] is that it ultimately feels like a menage a trois involving the actors and the camera, staged for the benefit of the director.
Posted Feb 21, 2019
48
At Berkeley (2013)

J. Hoberman

Indeed, in its implicit defense of educational democracy, At Berkeley is doubly didactic and one of Wiseman's most passionate films.
Posted Feb 21, 2019
49
The Wind Rises (2014)

J. Hoberman

I don't doubt the sincerity of Miyazaki's pacifism but I'm appalled by his abstract vision. Like, how many tens or hundreds of thousands of real people in Asia and the Pacific were de-animated thanks to [Jiro] Horikoshi's dreams?
Posted Feb 21, 2019
50
Nebraska (2013)

J. Hoberman

Nebraska is a slow-burning heart-warmer that neatly dodges the cornball bullet of a climactic manly hug.
Posted Feb 21, 2019