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Tablet 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.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
The Velvet Underground (2021) J. Hoberman Without belaboring the point, The Velvet Underground also makes the case for Warhol’s enduring significance.
Posted Mar 25, 2022  Edit critic review
Distant Journey (1950) J. Hoberman A landmark-a movie of its time that continues to speak to ours.
Posted Sep 13, 2021  Edit critic review
(undefined) J. Hoberman Perhaps the season's purest critique of Bannonism...
Posted May 17, 2021  Edit critic review
The Brink (2019) J. Hoberman Most woundingly, Klayman shows Bannon bested by journalists and bombing with audiences...
Posted May 17, 2021  Edit critic review
Bananas (1971) J. Hoberman ...an inventive piece of filmmaking, full of cinephilic references and most evocative of the period during which it was made.
Posted Mar 16, 2021  Edit critic review
I Walked With a Zombie (1943) J. Hoberman Zombie was a progressive movie in dealing with issues of race.
Posted Mar 16, 2021  Edit critic review
Christmas Holiday (1944) J. Hoberman Christmas Holiday's misleading title is amusingly amplified by the presence of musical stars Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly.
Posted Mar 16, 2021  Edit critic review
A New Leaf (1971) J. Hoberman Matthau makes an amusingly irascible lady killer but May's performance is unique.
Posted Mar 16, 2021  Edit critic review
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) J. Hoberman It Always Rains on Sunday might be called "kitchen-sink noir."
Posted Mar 16, 2021  Edit critic review
An American Pickle (2020) J. Hoberman An American Pickle derives most of its tang from the Herschel and Ben scenes. (In one superfluous but charming bit of business, Ben puts on an oldies station and shows Herschel how to dance to the 1960 chestnut "Stay.")
Posted Aug 14, 2020  Edit critic review
Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019) J. Hoberman However overwrought, Tyrnauer's movie forcefully illustrates Cohn's once cozy relationship with New York's rich, powerful, and privileged, many of them liberals and/or members of the media...
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019) J. Hoberman Raw, personal and compassionate...
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Joker (2019) J. Hoberman Not only an intelligent throwback to the feel-bad shock cinema of the 1970s, Joker is all but unique in its social realism...
Posted Feb 06, 2020  Edit critic review
Zero Motivation (2014) Anna Altman Lavie doesn't shy away from juxtaposing the grave with the absurd.
Posted Dec 04, 2018  Edit critic review
The Death of Stalin (2017) J. Hoberman Even played for comedy, the conditions surrounding, the characters affected by, and the succession struggle that followed Stalin's death are so rich in human drama as to be potentially Shakespearean.
Posted Mar 08, 2018  Edit critic review
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017) J. Hoberman With all due respect, so far as movies are concerned, the Jewish "Wonder Woman" of 2017 is not Gal Gadot but Hedwig Kiesler.
Posted Nov 30, 2017  Edit critic review
No Home Movie (2015) J. Hoberman A 115-minute film hewed from some 40 hours of footage shot over a period of several months, No Home Movie has a sense of Warholian acceptance.
Posted Oct 05, 2017  Edit critic review
The Kindergarten Teacher (2014) J. Hoberman The internationally acclaimed filmmaker's new 'The Kindergarten Teacher' takes Jewish insularity to terrific extremes.
Posted Aug 16, 2017  Edit critic review
Dark Horse (2015) J. Hoberman The funny, sad Dark Horse adds a creepy loser in love to the director's catalog of misanthropes.
Posted Aug 16, 2017  Edit critic review
The Three Stooges (2012) J. Hoberman The brutish schtick got old a long time ago.
Posted Aug 16, 2017  Edit critic review
The Possession (2012) J. Hoberman By objectifying Jews as exotic others rather than presenting them as subjects, the Raimi production eliminates the precise element that would have been most powerful for a Jewish audience.
Posted Aug 16, 2017  Edit critic review
Lincoln (2012) J. Hoberman Lincoln is an engrossing and even stirring civics lesson that tries, with admirable responsibility if only mixed success, to give voice to black America.
Posted Aug 16, 2017  Edit critic review
The Wedding Plan (2016) J. Hoberman The Wedding Plan is not founded on magic realism so much as cosmic ambiguity. The movie's final scene is fascinating for its sleight of hand.
Posted May 12, 2017  Edit critic review
The Settlers (2016) J. Hoberman [A] compelling, strongly articulated documentary portrait of Israelis and others living adjacent to the state of Israel on the occupied West Bank.
Posted Mar 07, 2017  Edit critic review
Stars (Sterne) (1959) J. Hoberman As a movie, Sterne manages to be both lyrical and monumental. As a statement, it practices a dialectic of unity and isolation.
Posted Jan 18, 2017  Edit critic review
Demon (2015) J. Hoberman Demon, Wrona's third and last feature, a Polish-Israeli co-production, is a supernatural film, as well as a family of melodrama and extremely dark comedy.
Posted Sep 14, 2016  Edit critic review
Parental Guidance (2012) J. Hoberman A strong candidate for the worst movie I've seen all year.
Posted May 05, 2016  Edit critic review
The Guilt Trip (2012) J. Hoberman The Guilt Trip struck me something best viewed on an airplane.
Posted May 05, 2016  Edit critic review
This Is 40 (2012) J. Hoberman This Is 40 is intermittently funny, frequently embarrassing and, at 134 minutes, quite a bit too long.
Posted May 05, 2016  Edit critic review
Footnote (2011) J. Hoberman Everything now in place, Footnote's almost wordless last 15 minutes are exquisitely choreographed.
Posted May 03, 2016  Edit critic review
The Loneliest Planet (2011) J. Hoberman A triumphantly visual movie, The Loneliest Planet develops an interplay between freedom and confinement.
Posted May 03, 2016  Edit critic review
Dark Horse (2011) J. Hoberman An exercise in compassionate misanthropy.
Posted May 03, 2016  Edit critic review
The Dictator (2012) J. Hoberman The problem is that, unlike Ali G, Borat, and Brno, Aladeen is less a force of nature than a scripted performance.
Posted May 03, 2016  Edit critic review
Eva Hesse (2016) J. Hoberman Hesse's interest was more a matter of process than product. Begleiter's movie picks up the next two sentences to give Hesse the poignant existential credo that serves as her last word. "Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter."
Posted Apr 26, 2016  Edit critic review
Rabin, the Last Day (2015) J. Hoberman As close as my political beliefs may be to Gitai's and as sympathetic as I am to his analysis, I can't help but mistrust his filmmaking.
Posted Feb 01, 2016  Edit critic review
Room 237 (2012) J. Hoberman Do the Kabbalist readings or wild free associations that Room 237 celebrates improve The Shining? Let's say that they create a parallel text: Lost in the Overlook, in search of the overlooked.
Posted Dec 31, 2015  Edit critic review
Hannah Arendt (2012) J. Hoberman Hannah Arendt is ultimately a pleasure, because Sukowa plays the most forbidding of intellectuals as a fabulous, passionate doll.
Posted Dec 31, 2015  Edit critic review
The Act of Killing (2012) J. Hoberman Once you grasp just what is being enacted on the screen, The Act of Killing becomes something like a candy-colored moral migraine. An existential nausea is inevitable.
Posted Dec 31, 2015  Edit critic review
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) J. Hoberman Isaac's folk-singing Llewyn Davis may be an arrogant loser and the butt of a cosmic joke but he's something more than a cartoon. So is the movie ...
Posted Dec 31, 2015  Edit critic review
The Last of the Unjust (2013) J. Hoberman The best one can say for this troubling, if intermittently fascinating, mess is that it succeeds in raising questions, moral as well as aesthetic, that it cannot answer.
Posted Dec 31, 2015  Edit critic review
Noah (2014) J. Hoberman The film oscillates between glitzy existential horror and somber showbiz spectacle.
Posted Dec 31, 2015  Edit critic review
Ida (2013) J. Hoberman Ida is not only an evocation of early '60s Poland, the period of Pawlikowski's childhood, but a film that gives the illusion that it could have been made then.
Posted Dec 31, 2015  Edit critic review
Listen Up Philip (2014) J. Hoberman Well-written, strongly acted, and often very funny.
Posted Dec 31, 2015  Edit critic review
Phoenix (2014) J. Hoberman The movie is fluid, suspenseful, and preposterous-although, more historically than psychologically, and not necessarily in a negative sense.
Posted Dec 31, 2015  Edit critic review
Son of Saul (2015) J. Hoberman Increasingly allegorical but never less than visceral (visceral and thoughtful) ... a film about the aftermath of a miracle and then a series of miracles that, in its brutal tact, compassion, and intelligence, is something of a miracle itself.
Posted Dec 31, 2015  Edit critic review
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