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J. Hoberman

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The American President (1995) 90% EDIT “As comedy, no less than camp, the movie inspires little more than rote chuckles. It's too smugly mush-brained to be funny and may even be too snuggly mush-hearted to sell.” – Village Voice Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% EDIT “Treating the rise and fall of an adult entertainment star without flinching from its allegorical potential, Anderson has produced what may be the American movie of the year on what is surely the subject of any age. ” – Village Voice Sep 24, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% EDIT “An ambitious attempt to fuse folklore and domestic drama, this may be Charles Burnett’s most original film—providing, among other things, Danny Glover’s career performance as an enigmatic trickster.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Hard Eight (1996) 82% EDIT “As fastidious (and unbelievable) as enigmatic Sydney, Hard Eight has a precise narrative structure and a clean, vérité look.” – Village Voice Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Cooley High (1975) 83% EDIT “Hectic yet smooth and powered by an extensive playlist of vintage Motown.” – New York Times Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Explorers (1985) 49% EDIT “The film is overplotted and rickety.” – Village Voice Jul 11, 2025 Full Review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 57% EDIT “Less story-driven than Jaws or even Jurassic Park, The Lost World eliminates transitional scenes, recapitulating its predecessor's thrills as if running down a checklist... Much of it is just unpleasantly nerve-racking.” – Village Voice Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Day of the Dead (1985) 61% EDIT “Romero has remained true to the wise-guy left-liberalism that underlies the E.C. gross-out aesthetic.” – Village Voice Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Eraserhead (1977) 87% EDIT “Eraserhead's not a movie I'd drop acid for, although I would consider it a revolutionary act if someone dropped a reel of it into the middle of Star Wars. ” – Village Voice Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Green Border (2023) 94% EDIT “Similarly devoid of nuance, its moral reckoning accentuated by brilliant black-and-white cinematography, Green Border is a visceral ordeal and virtuoso tumult.” – The New York Review of Books Jan 15, 2025 Full Review Henry Fonda for President (2024) 83% EDIT “Alexander Horwath’s erudite, entertaining three-hour meta-biopic.” – Artforum Oct 9, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 56% EDIT “At least Alien 3 had intimations of mythological grandeur. Too tepid to be satire, "Resurrection" has reached the point of diminishing returns. ” – Village Voice Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% EDIT “The spirit of desecration rules Mel Brooks’s Spaceballs. Buoyant, unsentimental low comedy, this manic Star Wars parody is continually vulgar without ever seeming smarmy.” – Village Voice Apr 3, 2024 Full Review Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) 96% EDIT “Indeed, given Jude’s willingness to engage with (or disinclination to disengage from) the cyber-powered second life, Do Not Expect is more despairing if even funnier than Bad Luck Banging.” – The Nation Mar 30, 2024 Full Review Forrest Gump (1994) 75% EDIT “There's an undeniable kick to the idea of recapitulating to the Boomerography as a tale told by an idiot, but the thrill inexorably fades.” – Village Voice Mar 1, 2024 Full Review Pulp Fiction (1994) 92% EDIT “More than anything else, Quentin Tarantino is a spinner of tall tales—the superbly garrulous, living embodiment of the movie enthusiast’s hey-wouldn’t-it-be-great-if... aesthetic.” – Village Voice Feb 29, 2024 Full Review Yambao (1957) EDIT “Deliriously trashy...fueled by the star’s mad conviction, Yambaó is a movie made for Jack Smith...” – Artforum Jan 27, 2024 Full Review Sensualidad (1951) EDIT “Feistier than most and strikingly progressive in her class and gender solidarity...” – Artforum Jan 27, 2024 Full Review Aventurera (1950) EDIT “López is an actress of taste.” – Artforum Jan 27, 2024 Full Review Maria Candelaria (1944) 92% EDIT “Pictorial big-sky melodrama...” – Artforum Jan 27, 2024 Full Review Salón Mexico (1949) EDIT “...a classic cabaretera, detailing the self-effacing Stella Dallas–like martyrdom of a dime-a-dance fichera...” – Artforum Jan 27, 2024 Full Review Rio Escondido (1947) EDIT “Fernández and Figueroa proved equally adept in the nocturnal realm of smoky dives and neon-illuminated back alleys.” – Artforum Jan 27, 2024 Full Review Victims of Sin (1950) 100% EDIT “A tumultuous product of Mexican cinema's Golden Age, the movie is a perfect storm, the confluence of three huge talents.” – Artforum Jan 27, 2024 Full Review Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002) EDIT “A three-part, nine-hour look at the painful decline of a once-thriving industrial zone...Wang has immersed himself in the lives of migrant workers...” – The Nation Nov 10, 2023 Full Review Youth (Spring) (2023) 86% EDIT “The prolific director examines how the People’s Republic became the workshop for much of the world.” – The Nation Nov 10, 2023 Full Review
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