Stuart Klawans

Film Critic

The Nation's film critic Stuart Klawans is author of the books Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order (a finalist for the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Awards) and Left in the Dark: Film Reviews and Essays, 1988-2001. His film criticism and reviews for The Nation won the 2007 National Magazine Award. When not on deadline for The Nation, he contributes articles to the New York Times and other publications.

Articles

The Year in Movies (Film)

The highlights of 2010 included Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol and the twenty-fifth-anniversary rerelease of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah.

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Worlds of Wonder (Film)

The King's Speech, The Illusionist, Black Swan

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Voids and Jackasses (Film)

127 Hours; Jackass 3D; Hereafter; Made in Dagenham; Middletown

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The Magic Mountain: The 2010 New York Film Festival (Film)

Lee Chang-Dong's Poetry, Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff, Charles Ferguson's Inside Job and other films

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Traps (Film)

David Fincher's The Social Network; Yael Hersonki's A Film Unfinished; Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

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Dogged Truths (Film)

My Dog Tulip; Last Train Home; Heartbreaker; Machete

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Pursuit of Happiness (Film)

Christopher Nolan's Inception; Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime; Samuel Maoz's Lebanon

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Ben Sonnenberg (Lived History, Media)

The former editor of Grand Street was a dandy without snobbism, an aesthete without pretense.

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Cornered (Film)

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's 12th & Delaware; Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger's Restrepo; Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me; Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right

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Icons and Zombies (Film)

Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead.

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