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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.

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Epic Moments: 'Milk,' 'Australia,' 'Wendy and Lucy' (Film)

Gus Van Sant's Milk, Baz Luhrmann's Australia, Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy.

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The Dread of Failure: On Desplechin and Kaufman (Film)

Reviews: Arnaud Desplechin's enchanted A Christmas Tale and Charlie Kaufman's brilliant Synedoche, New York.

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Panoramas: '24 City,' 'Ashes of Time Redux,' 'Happy-Go-Lucky (Film)

24 City and Ashes of Time Redux, two stars of the New York Film Festival; plus Happy-Go-Lucky and Ballast reviewed.

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Reviews: 'Burn After Reading,' 'Moving Midway' (Arts and Entertainment, Film, Books and the Arts)

The Coen brothers' dark comedy and Godfrey Cheshire's story of plantation life.

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Closely Watched Water (Film)

Hurricane Katrina seen from an eye in the storm.

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The Disasterplex (Film)

Superstars and superheroes fight and flounder through Hollywood's season of wanton destruction.

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Review: 'Full Battle Rattle,' 'Get Smart' (Film)

Reviewing a homegrown war documentary, a portrait of Native American life and a pair of spy comedies.

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Twilights (Film)

Who are films like Speed Racer, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and The Edge of Heaven really aimed at?

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Photo Ops (Film)

Errol Morris's new documentary Standard Operating Procedure lacks critical distance but produces masterful evocations of Abu Ghraib.

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Un Ballon Est un Ballon (Film)

In Flight of the Red Balloon, filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien takes on an unmistakably Parisian story with unbridled creative abandon.

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