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Review of Eternity and a Day (1998)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

Why put up with so much that seems insufferable…

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Review of The Bourne Identity (2002)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

Liman is also clever enough to make the real action start when the motor stops…

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Review of Before Sunset (2004)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

Linklater, Delpy and Hawke have sustained a flawless performance -- one that's warm, thoughtful, funny, sexy, charming and in all ways alive…

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Review of Narc (2002)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

For a picture that's billed as fresh and bracing, this is a pretty formulaic scheme, which Carnahan attempts to jolt into life through jittery…

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Review of The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

Tries to top the original by offering two car chases; but they both chop space into blurry, discontinuous fragments...As with the car chases,…

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Review of Chicago (2002)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

Chicago has been brought to the screen by first-time movie director Rob Marshall, who has shot it like one of those commercials for Broadway…

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Review of Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

I will dispense with my objections by saying that, with so much on his mind, Andersen sometimes organizes the work in the manner of a saloon…

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Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

I began to wonder, as the waves crashed about: Is it still possible for a movie to get excited about people…

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Review of Machuca (2004)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

It's an insidiously unforced movie, never drawing attention to its own cleverness, always investing meaning and tension into its details…

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Review of The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

Though it's choked with dead bodies and disappointments, The Royal Tenenbaums comes before you with a smile…

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Review of American Beauty (1999)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

Complexity, say quite a few of my colleagues. Lies, I say…

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Review of Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

It's another burnout role for Nicolas Cage, to which he brings his vast repertoire of grimaces and shuffles, as if he were variously impersonating…

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Review of Fight Club (1999)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

Pitt bronco-rides through the movie, using many of the nutsy-dangerous mannerisms he previously unloosed in 12 Monkeys…

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Review of Wonder Boys (2000)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

Wonder Boys has a delightfully malicious beginning, an increasingly muddled second act and a conclusion of such moral uplift that it probably…

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Review of The Quiet American (2002)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

By cutting Greene's novel down to its most basic action, the screenplay makes the situations look bare and silly--including the Vietnam War…

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Review of The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

It's perfectly, elegantly reticent about its subject matter, as suits both the theme and the tradition of film noir (a type of filmmaking that…

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Review of The Pianist (2002)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

The Pianist is a serious movie brought out in a tabloid-besotted time, a prestige picture that invigorates, a study of character and history…

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Review of Spider-Man (2002)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

Spider-Man was the first really alienated guy to swoop around fighting crime in a funny outfit…

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Review of Shakespeare in Love (1998)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

Although Shakespeare in Love benefits from a delightful screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard -- and a flattering one, for viewers who…

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Review of I, Robot (2004)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 03 Mar 2005

I, Robot is satisfactory as a story, appealing as a star turn but arresting only as production design -- in particular, for its vision of a…

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