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Jordan Hoffman

Jordan Hoffman is a writer and critic based in New York City. Twitter @jhoffman

June 2018

  • The Indoraptor

    Mad hair. Russian owners. Is Jurassic World 2’s meanest dinosaur really Donald Trump?

  • Composite for 3D printing in films: The Cloverfield Paradox, Hotel ARtemis and Ocean’s 8

    How 3D printers became Hollywood's favorite gimmick

May 2018

  • Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin in Adrift

    Adrift review – shipshape Shailene Woodley keeps survival drama buoyant

    The Divergent star puts in a career-best performance in this lost-at-sea tale
  • Composite photo of (L-R) Harrison Ford, Charlize Theron and Heath Ledger.

    'A total blast': our writers pick their favorite summer blockbusters ever

    As the season heats up on the big screen, Guardian writers look back on their picks from the past with killer sharks, mournful crime-fighters and time-traveling teens
    • Mandy review – Nicolas Cage goes full freakout in gory vengeance thriller

    • Film blog
      Christopher Nolan at Cannes: 'I want the young to sit in awe at 2001: A Space Odyssey'

    • Birds of Passage review – Ciro Guerra takes the mob epic to tribal Colombia

April 2018

  • RELEASE DATE: May 11, 2018 TITLE: The Seagull STUDIO: Sony Pictures Classics DIRECTOR: Michael Mayer PLOT: An aging actress named Irina Arkadina pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. Nina, a<br>MC3MKK RELEASE DATE: May 11, 2018 TITLE: The Seagull STUDIO: Sony Pictures Classics DIRECTOR: Michael Mayer PLOT: An aging actress named Irina Arkadina pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls in love with Boris Trigorin. STARRING: ANNETTE BENING as Irina, JON TENNEY as Doctor Dorn. (Credit Image: © Sony Pictures Classics/Entertainment Pictures)

    The Seagull review – all-star cast brings out the comedy in Chekhov

  • At its release, Scarface was notorious for its language. The F-bomb is dropped 207 times, or 1.21 times per minute.

    Al Pacino on Scarface 35 years later: ‘Bombast was what we were trying to say’

March 2018

  • God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

    God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness review – preposterous threequel

    The latest chapter of the hit Christian franchise isn’t quite as regrettable as the films that have come before it but it’s still a slog

January 2018

  • null<br>Paul Rudd and Sienna Miller in The Catcher Was a Spy.

    The Catcher Was a Spy review – Paul Rudd goes from baseball to Bond in engaging thriller

  • Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson in Sorry to Bother You

    Sorry to Bother You review – weirdo workplace satire may become a cult classic

  • Garrett Hedlund in Burden, showing at the Sundance film festival.

    Burden review – Ku Klux Klan drama is as subtle as a sledgehammer

  • Rosamund Pike and Jon Hamm in Beirut.

    First look review
    Beirut review – Jon Hamm impresses in intelligent 80s-set spy thriller

  • First look review
    Ophelia review – Daisy Ridley stranded in disastrous Hamlet reimagining

  • The Miseducation of Cameron Post review – prayers answered with conversion therapy drama

  • First look review
    Yardie review – Idris Elba's directorial debut is an uneven disappointment

  • Wildlife review - Carey Mulligan plays flirtatious under big skies in Paul Dano's directorial debut

  • Come Sunday review – not enough meat for Chiwetel Ejiofor to save film about born-again Christian pastor

  • First look review
    Colette review – Keira Knightley is on top form in exhilarating literary biopic

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