Film

Good News From Romania? Good News From Romania?

12:08 East of Bucharest is a hilariously bleak film set on the sixteenth anniversary of Romania's revolution.

Jun 7, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Dreamscape Dreamscape

Reviews of the animated psychoanalytic sci-fi thriller Paprika, 9 Star Hotel and Poison Friends.

May 24, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Spider-Man 3: Third Time’s (Not) the Charm Spider-Man 3: Third Time’s (Not) the Charm

Sam Raimi has loaded so many big ideas into Spider-Man 3, they drag this morality-soaked bag of kittens right down to the river's bottom.

May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Scary Movie: Captivity’s Ad Campaign Scary Movie: Captivity’s Ad Campaign

I joined the protest of a terribly offensive poster for the horror flick Captivity, which resulted in its being taken down. Was that a good thing?

May 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Annabelle Gurwitch

Desire and Its Discontents Desire and Its Discontents

Reviews of Syndromes and a Century, Private Fears in Public Places, Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis and Stephanie Daley.

Apr 19, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Undercover of the Night Undercover of the Night

Reviews of the films Black Book and Zodiac.

Apr 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

That’s the Way of the World That’s the Way of the World

Reviews of U-Carmen, Offside and Killer of Sheep, arguably one of the best films of 2007.

Mar 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Soft-Core Sexism Soft-Core Sexism

If movies reflect our shared consensus about right and wrong, Black Snake Moan speaks volumes about twenty-first-century America.

Mar 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lakshmi Chaudhry

The Things They Carried The Things They Carried

Reviews of The Host, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and The Namesake.

Mar 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Winter Light Winter Light

Stuart Klawans reviews Into Great Silence, Sátántangó and the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of Abbas Kiarostami's films.

Feb 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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