Email Author J. Hoberman

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

• Los Angeles Plays Itself

  published March 25, 2010

  Sad, funny and acutely self-conscious, Noah Baumbach's new movie is the sort of mordant character study that people imagine was common in the... More >>

• Mission Finally Accomplished

  published March 11, 2010

  Better late than never — a bang-bang pulse-pounder predicated on the Bush administration's deliberate fabrication of WMDs in Iraq. Paul... More >>

• Alice in Chains

  published March 4, 2010

  Walt Disney mulled an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland for decades before producing an animated feature in 1951, although by all accounts,... More >>

• Alice in Chains

  published February 25, 2010

  Walt Disney mulled an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland for decades before producing an animated feature in 1951, although by all accounts,... More >>

• Watching the Detective

  published February 18, 2010

  Detective stories imply that mysteries can be solved, or at least rationally explained. Even the most debased example is a secular article of... More >>

• History Repeats

  published January 28, 2010

  The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke's first German-language film since the original Funny Games (1997) and, addressing what... More >>

• My Blue (Screen) Heaven

  published January 14, 2010

  A one-film cabinet of curiosities, The Lovely Bones turns the most successful CGI director of the '00s loose on one of the decade's... More >>