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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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2009 Stories by J. Hoberman

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  COVER STORY

  Our Own Glorious Basterds, J. Hoberman, Robert Wilonsky And Scott Foundas Put Their Minds Together And Come Up With Their Favorite Films of 2009

  published December 24, 2009

  1 The Hurt Locker: The decade's strongest Iraq movie is also the year's finest action flick, not to mention director Kathryn... More >>

• Our Three Critics Each Pick Their Three Favorite Films Of The Decade--And Surprise, There's Not A Sequel Or A Prequel In The Bunch

  published December 24, 2009

  Looking back on a decade dominated by the movie franchise—Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars, to name a... More >>

• Avatar: All That Glitters Isn't Gold

  published December 17, 2009

  The money is on the screen in Avatar, James Cameron's mega-3-D, mondo-CGI, more-than-a-quarter-billion-dollar baby, and like the... More >>

• The Road: Neither Horrific Nor Disasterrrific, Cormac Mccarthy Adap Takes The Path Of Least Resistance

  published November 26, 2009

  The Road, Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning, post-apocalyptic survivalist prose poem—in which a father and his... More >>

• Antichrist

  published November 19, 2009

  Lars von Trier's doggedly outrageous, fearsomely ambitious two-hander is so desperate to make you feel something—if only a terrible... More >>

• The Men Who Stare at Goats: Did Aliens Abduct George Clooney's Sense of Humor?

  published November 5, 2009

  Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking: Germany's loss in World War I, the JFK assassination and 9/11 are all naturally... More >>

• The Box

  published November 5, 2009

  The secret is out. Warner Bros. waited to unwrap The Box until two days before its opening because, compared to its madcap... More >>

• The Baader Meinhof Complex

  published October 15, 2009

  Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof, the Red Army Faction were the Weather... More >>

• Spike Jonze Can't Quite Get the Spirit of the Wild Things Onscreen

  published October 15, 2009

  Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children's picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are may be the... More >>

• In A Triumph Of His Will, Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Makes Holocaust Revisionism Ridiculously Fun

  published August 20, 2009

  Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is consummate Hollywood entertainment—rich... More >>

• With Tetro, It's Family Biz

  published August 6, 2009

  As Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola's baroque genealogical melodrama, reaches its appropriately hysterical denouement, Vincent Gallo... More >>

• Despite Its Premise (And Title), Humpday Isn’t Really About Gay Sex

  published July 23, 2009

  Lynn Shelton's Humpday, a sexual sitcom, opens with a pair of breeders in bed. A youngish married couple, Ben (Mark Duplass) and... More >>

• Brüno is Totally Gay for You

  published July 9, 2009

  "Heterosexuals can't understand camp, because everything they do is camp," opined an associate of the old Playhouse of the Ridiculous, a New... More >>

• Moon: Bowie’s Kid Makes His Own Space Oddity

  published July 2, 2009

  Moon, directed by British advert tyro Duncan Jones, is a modest science fiction film with major aspirations. Jones' debut is... More >>

• Not even the curmudgeonly Larry David Can Make Woody Allen's Whatever Works work.

  published June 26, 2009

  Character is destiny—at least for Woody Allen's Whatever Works. Allen's exercise in Woody Allen nostalgia opens with a... More >>

• Made in U.S.A

  published April 30, 2009

  Made in U.S.A. Jean-Luc Godard's Made in U.S.A. is not the celluloid holy grail, but it's close enough. Four decades after its... More >>

• State of Play Finds Thrills in a Dying Industry--Newspapers

  published April 16, 2009

  Kevin Macdonald's Washington thriller is a bellows designed to puff up the most beaten-down reporter's chest. Compressed from the highly... More >>

• Harvard Beats Yale This sports doc definitely better than kissing your sister

  published April 9, 2009

  Pundits agree: The 2008 election has finally and forever rung down the curtain on America's longest-running psychodrama, namely the... More >>

• Watchmen: Just Watchable

  published March 5, 2009

  The most eagerly anticipated (as well as the most beleaguered) movie of the year (if not the century), Watchmen is neither... More >>

• Gomorrah

  published March 5, 2009

  Martin Scorsese may be presenting Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah, but this corrosive, slapdash, grimly exciting exposé... More >>

• Dog Tale

  published February 19, 2009

  Modest but cosmic, Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy is a movie whose sad pixie heroine, Wendy (Michelle Williams), already... More >>

• Che

  published January 15, 2009

  And so the endless campaign wraps up with a flurry of virtual leaders. Richard Nixon will always be part of America's dreamlife, with or... More >>

• The Wrestler: Lord of the Ring

  published January 8, 2009

  The Wrestler may be plenty visceral, but it's no more a sports movie than professional wrestling is a competitive sport. Chronic... More >>