ROTTEN TOMATOES: J. Hoberman

J. HOBERMAN

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications: L.A. Weekly, Village Voice

Critics' Group: National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews: 944

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Fresh	N/A	Film Ist: A Girl & A Gun (2009)	" Film Ist. a Girl & a Gun is not subtle, but its literalism -- which refines the avant-primitivism of older Viennese artists -- is its strength." — Village Voice Posted Dec 2, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Fat City (1972)	" The movie is crafty work and very much a show. In one way or another, right down to the percussively abrupt open ending, it's all about being hammered." — Village Voice Posted Sep 15, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 50%	The Feature (2009)	" Auder's life is more interesting than his art." — Village Voice Posted Mar 17, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Frost/Nixon (2008)	" Frost/Nixon's main attraction is neither its topicality nor its historical value, but Langella's re-creation of his Tony-winning performance." — Village Voice Posted Dec 3, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 70%	Full Battle Rattle (2008)	" One of the many surreal aspects of this fabulously disorienting movie: its representation of an Iraqi heaven that's an American hell." — Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 51%	Funny Games (2008)	" Without ever acknowledging his own sadism, Haneke self-righteously lays his aesthetic and moral cards on the table." — Village Voice Posted Mar 11, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 90%	A Face in the Crowd (1957)	" A Face in the Crowd has never ceased to be relevant." — Village Voice Posted Feb 27, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 98%	For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)	" More human interest than agitprop." — Village Voice Posted Oct 2, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 98%	The French Connection (1971)	" Popeye also earned counterculture points by mistakenly shooting a federal agent and exhibiting a conspicuous lack of remorse." — Village Voice Posted Aug 28, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 44%	Fay Grim (2007)	" With all manner of backstories and flashbacks jamming the road, the Posey-mobile starts to swerve and sputter and finally blows a tire." — Village Voice Posted May 15, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 51%	The Fountain (2006)	" The premise is lachrymose, the sets are clammy, and the metaphysics all wet. The screen is awash in spiraling nebulae and misty points of light, with the soundtrack supplying appropriately moist oohs and aahs." — Village Voice Posted Nov 21, 2006
Fresh	Rotten 51%	Fast Food Nation (2006)	" Fast Food Nation is exotic for being a movie about work. Its characters struggle with some of the world's dirtiest jobs -- morally as well as physically." — Village Voice Posted Nov 14, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 31%	Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)	" You won't learn much about Arbus, aside from the correct pronunciation of her first name; you will get to see Kidman try (and fail) to find her inner freak." — Village Voice Posted Nov 7, 2006
Fresh	Rotten 57%	The Forsaken Land (2006)	" The 27-year-old filmmaker's command of film language is evident and his evocation of postwar trauma is haunting." — Village Voice Posted Jun 20, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 70%	Friends With Money (2006)	" *Although the women provide the narrative's social glue, it's never clear how they formed their bonds. Rather than story, Friends With Money* is founded on ready-made behavioral metaphors.*" — Village Voice* Posted Apr 4, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Fateless (2006)	" Fateless will be inevitably compared to Schindler's List and especially The Pianist; while no single scene is as harrowing as the strongest moments in either of those movies, it's more sustained than either." — Village Voice Posted Jan 3, 2006
Rotten	Fresh 63%	Fever Pitch (2005)	" *Barely a screwball comedy, let alone a gunk-loaded spitball like There's Something About Mary." — Village Voice* Posted Apr 12, 2005
Fresh	Fresh 96%	Festival Express (2004)	" Given the heavy concentration of old folkies, the on-train jams are fascinating." — Village Voice Posted Jul 27, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 63%	Free Radicals (2004)	" An intelligent, viscerally intellectual exercise in ensemble acting and associative montage, enlivened with some terrific visual and dramatic ideas." — Village Voice Posted Jul 20, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 70%	Father and Son (2004)	" Borders on the risible but, because Sokurov is Sokurov, this exalted, wacky scenario ... is amazingly staged, inventively edited, and rich in audio layering, with camera placements that sometimes verge on the Brakhagian." — Village Voice Posted Jun 15, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 89%	The Five Obstructions (2004)	" An essay on art as a matter of solving problems posed by a capricious deity -- that is, an expos� of von Trier's own method, both of making a movie and directing actors." — Village Voice Posted May 25, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 84%	Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)	" If Moore is formidable, it's not because he is a great filmmaker (far from it), but because he infuses his sense of ridicule with the fury of moral indignation. Fahrenheit 9/11 is strongest when that wrath is vented on Bush and his cohorts." — Village Voice Posted May 18, 2004
Fresh	Fresh 98%	The Fog of War (2003)	" *No matter what your opinion of McNamara, The Fog of War* is a chastening experience.*" — Village Voice* Posted Dec 16, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 89%	From Here to Eternity (1953)	" *Contemporary audiences may not see why, even in its toned-down simplification of the novel, From Here to Eternity* was the most daring movie of 1953, but it remains an acting bonanza.*" — Village Voice* Posted Dec 2, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 85%	A Fistful of Dynamite (1971)	" The new print is good, and the 20 restored minutes are choice." — Village Voice Posted Nov 18, 2003
Fresh	Fresh 81%	Friday Night (2003)	" Glamorously hyper-ordinary, Lemercier and Lindon make a pleasant pair of mature lovers." — Village Voice Posted Jun 17, 2003
Rotten	Rotten 48%	Femme Fatale (2002)	" Sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects, not the least of which is Rebecca Romijn-Stamos." — Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Far From Heaven (2002)	" Without resorting to camp or parody, Haynes (like Sirk, but differently) has transformed the rhetoric of Hollywood melodrama into something provocative, rich, and strange." — Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2002
Rotten	Fresh 75%	Frida (2002)	" *The impressionist model might have served Taymor better than her Frida's straightforward script, which is ultimately overwhelmed with incident and suggests the labor of many hands." — Village Voice* Posted Oct 22, 2002
—	N/A	The Fall of Otrar (1992)	Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Aug 23, 2002
Rotten	Rotten 37%	Full Frontal (2002)	" *Unlike Magnolia* or Mulholland Drive, it doesn't offer an audience much incentive to tease out its ambiguities.*" — Village Voice* Posted Jul 30, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 90%	The Fast Runner (2002)	" Spectacularly beautiful, not to mention mysterious, sensual, emotionally intense, and replete with virtuoso throat-singing." — Village Voice Posted Jun 4, 2002
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Frontline - Much Ado About Something (2002)	" Rubbo's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-Shakespeare controversy." — Village Voice Posted Feb 12, 2002
Fresh	Rotten 58%	From Hell (2001)	" It has the lush decrepitude of an autumn compost heap or an old Hammer werewolf flick." — Village Voice Posted Oct 23, 2001
Fresh	Rotten 56%	Focus (2001)	" Recent events have helped this period piece even more." — Village Voice Posted Oct 16, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 72%	Fat Girl (2001)	" As fascinating as it is discomfiting and as intelligent as it is primal." — Village Voice Posted Oct 9, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Fight Club (1999)	" Extremely funny, surprisingly well-acted, and boldly designed -- at least until its steel-and-chrome souffl� falls apart." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	Fresh 65%	For Love of the Game (1999)	Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000
—	Fresh 94%	The Filth and the Fury (1999)	Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000

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