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On the occasion of 30 Years of J. Hoberman, at BAM through, Bruce Bennett writes in the New York Sun: "Like Lester Bangs, who examined old, new, mainstream, and vanguard work with equal suspicion, passion, and curiosity, Mr Hoberman created his own aesthetic beat, putting experimental short works, foreign art films, and mainstream Hollywood fare all under the same energetic scrutiny. Infuriating though it often could be, a Hoberman review invariably articulated a fierce intelligence and a strong desire to position films within both the mechanisms of expression their makers employed and the social and political contexts from which the work emerged".