J. Hoberman, Village Voice
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For 943 reviews, this critic has graded:
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38% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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59% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.5 points higher than other critics.
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J. Hoberman's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 559 out of 943
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Mixed: 309 out of 943
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Negative: 75 out of 943
943
movie reviews
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J. Hoberman 30
An unappealing, conventional, and somnolent piece of work in which, as glumly directed from David Levien and Brian Koppelman's corny script, every scene feels like it's being played for the second time. -
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J. Hoberman 30
This is a movie about the nature of acting -- or, more specifically, the nature that creates an actress -- centered on what appears to be a spectacularly unconvincing title-role performance. -
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J. Hoberman 30
A vaguely absurd epidemiological thriller filled with elaborately superfluous setups and shamelessly stale James Bond riffs. -
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J. Hoberman 30
Intermittently, in attempts to articulate a coherent argument, Collateral Damage shifts from pulse-pounding mode to something more migraine-conducive. -
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J. Hoberman 30
Performance seems more like eye candy than castor oil in the brave new world of "Freddy Got Fingered." -
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J. Hoberman 30
Exceedingly slow setup and even more tediously static sequence that effectively terminates the movie well before its official running time. -
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J. Hoberman 30
That this mime show works better than it should is, in a sense, the ultimate dis. -
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J. Hoberman 30
Costner himself is the doggedly humorless heart and soul (and brains?) of this monumentally maudlin picture. -
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J. Hoberman 30
The neophyte director has a tendency to pose his actors and musically overscore each new dramatic development. The combination can border on the ludicrous. -
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J. Hoberman 30
It's Rambo with a split hero -- Morse absorbing punishment and Crowe wreaking vengeance. -
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J. Hoberman 30
An overtly saccharine fairy tale of abandonment that is subverted by its own comic brutality. It's oddly affecting...which is to say, sad in a way that its maker might not have intended. -
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J. Hoberman 30
A handheld and grainy exercise in cine-stupefaction...too spastic to connect...the movie just flails the air. -
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J. Hoberman 30
Has little to offer beyond muzzy kismet and generalized amnesia, a bit of National Geographic and a lot of cocktail jazz. -
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J. Hoberman 30
Home Room is badly acted and, running well over two hours, often mind-numbingly ponderous. Depressed rather than hysterical, it's in every way less clever and more literal-minded than "Zero Day." -
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J. Hoberman 30
Despite some deadpan, Jacques Tati-like orchestration and occasional sight gags, there's no real pleasure in the game -- Songs From the Second Floor is more absurd than funny. -
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J. Hoberman 30
Hollywood Homicide knows it's a dog, and it ain't too proud to beg. -
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J. Hoberman 30
Niccol has no gift for comedy. His ongoing exploration of modern celebrity results in an industry satire that's less funny than half-empty and hyper-designed. -
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J. Hoberman 30
The least one can say for this costume action flick is that it hits bottom immediately. -
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J. Hoberman 30
Closer to Sturges than Capra, the movie means to satirize the TV-fueled carnivalesque nature of American electoral politics but only demonstrates the TV-fueled debasement of American commercial comedy. -
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J. Hoberman 30
This ponderous, didactic weepie aspires to "Titanic" stature even if the only ship it sinks is itself. -
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J. Hoberman 30
The Coens are uncharacteristically restrained. Indeed, given that the crime comedy is their preferred genre, The Ladykillers is remarkable mainly for its timidity. -
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J. Hoberman 30
Overwrought and often hysterical, filled with distracting montages and portentous drumbeats, the documentary feels as cheesy as its subject. -
