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Movie Reviews by Stuart Klawans - Page 9 of 15

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Review of Lucy (2014)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 20 Aug 2014

To the degree that Lucy's adventure is even temporarily plausible, let alone engaging, it's because Johansson makes it so…

Review of The Dark Knight (2008)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 19 Aug 2014

What you finally receive from The Dark Knight, then, isn't a message but a sensation, which comes from the deliberately twisted form…

Review of Life Itself (2014)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 23 Jul 2014

Life Itself is a film about living and dying well…

Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 23 Jul 2014

Thanks to the astonishing consistency of Linklater and the cast, and the faultless editing of Sandra Adair, all this happens in Boyhood much…

Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 23 Jul 2014

Thanks to the astonishing consistency of Linklater and the cast, and the faultless editing of Sandra Adair, all this happens in Boyhood much…

Review of Obvious Child (2014)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 24 Jun 2014

Had Robespierre been consistently tough-minded, Obvious Child might have been just as funny but could also have risen to the level of a really…

Review of Dormant Beauty (2012)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 24 Jun 2014

Bellocchio may sometimes shut these characters in their rooms, but his view of them all is as open in mind and spirit as a film can be…

Review of We Are the Best! (2013)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 24 Jun 2014

As played by three sparkling newcomers (Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin and Liv LeMoyne) in scenes that rely heavily on improvisation, they burst…

Review of Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 24 Jun 2014

Doug Liman directed, making the most of every opportunity for a quick cut, a good laugh and a new surge of adrenaline…

Review of Obvious Child (2009)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 24 Jun 2014

Had Robespierre been consistently tough-minded, Obvious Child might have been just as funny but could also have risen to the level of a really…

Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 19 Mar 2014

I'm bothered when an overabundance of surface effects covers up a ringingly hollow purpose, containing very little except authorial will…

Review of The Missing Picture (2013)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 19 Mar 2014

[The Missing Picture] carries with it such a burden of personal and collective pain, and bears reliable witness to such a huge historical crime,…

Review of Kids for Cash (2014)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 14 Feb 2014

It's an honest investigation -- unprejudiced toward its subjects, thorough in its research, comprehensive in its intellectual framework --…

Review of Gloria (2013)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 14 Feb 2014

A feel-good movie that you don't have to feel bad for liking…

Review of Child's Pose (2013)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 14 Feb 2014

There is none of the gallows humor that attracts a certain type of viewer to the Romanian New Wave…

Review of Gloria (2013)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 14 Feb 2014

A feel-good movie that you don't have to feel bad for liking…

Review of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 23 Jan 2014

The characteristic traits build up, intolerably: the grinding pace, the deadening repetition, the pointless wordiness (Terence Winter's screenplay…

Review of Oldboy (2013)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 10 Dec 2013

[Lee] moves easily among the several registers of filmmaking that Oldboy demands…

Review of American Hustle (2013)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 10 Dec 2013

Like that other time-traveler to the 1970s, Paul Thomas Anderson, Russell is a big, expressive moviemaker who seems willing to try anything…

Review of The Great Beauty (2013)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 14 Nov 2013

Many flights, lunges, glides and pokes of the camera in these sequences reveal the magnificence and overpowering weight of Rome's past and…

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Film Comment Magazine (842)
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