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Awards

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 13, 2009

  "Let the Mild Rumpus Start!"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 29, 2009

  "Robert Frank's Real America"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 4, 2009

  "Why Hard Times Won't Mean Good Times"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 12, 2008

  "Deep Freeze"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 18, 2008

  "What We Learned About the Election in this Summer's Movies"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 24, 2008

  "Kill One for the Gipper"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 5, 2006

  "Mel Gibson is Responsible for All the Wars in the World"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 16, 2006

  "The New Disaster Movie"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 14, 2006

  "Anarchy in the UK"

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2010 Stories by J. Hoberman

• True Grit Movie Review

  published December 23, 2010

  Boldly reanimating the comic Western that secured John Wayne his Oscar 41 years ago, the Coen brothers' True Grit is... More >>

• The 2010 Village Voice/L.A. Weekly Film Poll

  published December 23, 2010

  And the winner of the 2010 Village Voice/L.A. Weekly Film Critics Poll is ... The Ghost Writer, Black... More >>

• THE ILLUSIONIST

  published December 23, 2010

  GO  THE ILLUSIONIST Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist breathes life into a celluloid fossil, lovingly... More >>

• Tron: Legacy Review

  published December 16, 2010

  Check out our "Tron: Legacy vs. Avatar" CGI smackdown infographic... More >>

• CASINO JACK

  published December 16, 2010

  CASINO JACK The late George Hickenlooper's Casino Jack is an improbably blithe cautionary tale, recounting the rise... More >>

• Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench: Swing Time

  published December 9, 2010

  A quasi-documentary portrait of young nonactors striking poses, walking around Boston, hanging out and playing or listening to... More >>

• INSPECTOR BELLAMY

  published December 9, 2010

  Inspector Bellamy, the last movie Claude Chabrol finished before his death in September at 80, may occupy only a high middling... More >>

• Fight Club: David O. Russell's boxing flick

  published December 9, 2010

  The Fighter is based on the true story of Lowell, Massachusetts, light welterweight champ "Irish" Micky Ward, but,... More >>

• Black Swan: Dance Dance Revulsion

  published December 2, 2010

  View club photos in Shannon Cottrell's slideshow, More >>

• THE KING'S SPEECH

  published November 25, 2010

  THE KING'S SPEECH A picnic for Anglophiles, not to mention a prospective Oscar bonanza for the brothers Weinstein, The... More >>

• Red Cliff Uncut

  published November 25, 2010

  The prodigal son's prodigal film returns in its original form, if only for a weekend: John Woo's uncut, nearly five-hour Red Cliff,... More >>

• Tiny Furniture: Shame and Fortune

  published November 25, 2010

  Winner of last spring's SXSW festival and current indie darling Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture is a comedy of youthful... More >>

• White Material: Apocalypse Now

  published November 25, 2010

  Claire Denis' strongest movie in the decade since Beau Travail, her tense, convulsive White Material, is a... More >>

• BOXING GYM

  published November 4, 2010

  GO  BOXING GYM Boxing Gym is 80-year-old documentarian Frederick Wiseman's 38th feature. Despite, or perhaps because of,... More >>

• HEREAFTER

  published October 14, 2010

  HEREAFTER Is America's last cowboy icon prospecting for more Oscar gold? Taking for his map an original screenplay by British docu-dramatist... More >>

• ALAMAR

  published October 14, 2010

  GO ALAMAR A docu-fiction hybrid, Pedro González-Rubio's Alamar records, as it partakes of, a 5-year-old boy's dream... More >>

• Inside Job: Greed, Interrupted

  published October 14, 2010

  Inside Job, Charles Ferguson's follow-up to his Iraq War gut-twister No End in Sight, is a documentary that inspires... More >>

• HOWL

  published September 30, 2010

  HOWL As suggested by its title, Allen Ginsberg's game-changing poem "Howl," is essentially performative — and so is... More >>

• The Social Network: Who Needs Friends?

  published September 30, 2010

  The Social Network is a wonderful title, at once Olympian in its detachment and self-descriptive in its... More >>

• Movie Review: Leaves of Grass

  published September 23, 2010

  LEAVES OF GRASS Leaves of Grass is an ambitiously highfalutin pothead laffer — which is not to say it's in any way... More >>

• Movie Review: Never Let Me Go

  published September 16, 2010

  NEVER LET ME GO Published five years ago, Kazuo Ishiguro's massively praised Never Let Me Go is set in an alternate universe,... More >>

• Last Train Home: the Road to Implosion

  published September 16, 2010

  Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan's prize-winning documentary Last Train Home is an intimate portrait of an unfathomable immensity,... More >>

• Antonioni Ennui Emerges

  published August 19, 2010

  Excavated from the deep '50s, Michelangelo Antonioni's Le amiche (known in English as The Girlfriends) is an unexpected... More >>

• Lebanon: Fear Factor

  published August 12, 2010

  Lebanon, written and directed by Samuel Maoz, is not just the year's most impressive first feature but also... More >>

• Fifteen Minutes of Fame, Like It or Not

  published July 15, 2010

  Opening with a deeply sincere "I don't give a fuck!" Austin filmmaker Ben Steinbauer's investigative doc Winnebago... More >>