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

Just a Game? (Film)

Agnès Varda's The Beaches of Agnès, Havana Marking's Afghan Star

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Live Long and Prosper: Star Trek and More (Film)

J.J. Abrams's Star Trek, Ron Howard's Angels & Demons, Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours

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Pure Cinema: New Films by Celan, Zonca and Jarmusch (Film)

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys, Erick Zonca's Julia, Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control.

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Lonely Blue Boys (Film)

Stuart Klawans Zack Snyder's Watchmen, Tony Gilroy's Duplicity, Greg Mottola's Adventureland.

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The Mutual Human Concern (Film)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata, Steve McQueen's Hunger, Andrzej Wajda's Katyn.

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Waste Management (Film)

Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah, plus The Class and Coraline.

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Schindler's List (Historical Films)

From a book by Thomas Keneally, who was convinced by the shopkeeper to look at some old documents he kept in the back of his store. The man was one of the 12,000 people saved by Oskar Schindler.

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Unforgiven (Historical Films)

Clint Eastwood won his first Academy Award for this Dirty-Harry-meets-the-western classic.

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Forrest Gump (Historical Films)

In which an addled man stumbles through recent American history, kind of like George W. Bush.

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Guilt and Absolution: Carlos Reygadas's 'Silent Light' (Film)

Reviewing Silent Light and more.

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