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Review of The Square (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 01 Nov 2017

Östlund's craft is immaculate, his range ambitious, his shifts of tone breathtaking…

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Review of Lady Bird (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 01 Nov 2017

Gerwig and Ronan make their heroine as finely tuned as an antenna, always quivering with signals about the new selves she might momentarily try on…

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Review of Wonderstruck (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 01 Nov 2017

I wanted to love this movie about young people lost and found in Manhattan in two different eras; I wanted to explore it, just like the more…

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Review of The Rider (2018)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 01 Nov 2017

As for The Rider, its naturally occurring mood is one of elegiac grandeur…

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Review of Félicité (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 01 Nov 2017

The movie's popping at full boil, and you're caffeinated, ready for whatever may come…

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Review of The Florida Project (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 01 Nov 2017

[Florida Project] is two hours of grit, outrage, and beauty…

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Review of Zama (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 01 Nov 2017

I might call the film a delirium, but Martel is too precise for that, and too harshly satirical…

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Review of Human Flow (2017)

By Sarah Aziza (1) for The Nation (355) on 24 Oct 2017

The critical acclaim is well-warranted-aside from its aesthetic beauty, the film's breadth is a feat in itself, drawn from years of reporting…

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Review of Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 19 Sep 2017

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Review of Good Time (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 22 Aug 2017

It's mean, all right-also myopic, pitiless, and deliberately ugly, and it leaves you with no moral. I like it a lot…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 22 Aug 2017

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Review of Machines (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 22 Aug 2017

An exceptional first feature, combining impeccably assured image-making, deep empathy, and a muckraking spirit…

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Review of Detroit (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 08 Aug 2017

If Detroit is consistent about anything, it's playacting; everybody in the film does it…

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Review of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 25 Jul 2017

Two movies past the wit and virtuosity of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the formerly amazing creatures have become no more involving than…

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Review of Okja (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 25 Jul 2017

I'm happy to say that one of the summer's CGI inventions remains astonishing, and lovable, from first to last: the giant pet pig that is the…

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Review of A Ghost Story (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 25 Jul 2017

I didn't expect that Lowery -- or anyone -- would come close to the touching inventiveness of my favorite film from the beyond, Hirokazu Kore-eda's…

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Review of The Reagan Show (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 11 Jul 2017

Pettengill, an expert on researching and using archival material, has masterfully plucked such scenes out of the 66-foot colossus of videotape…

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Review of Night School (2016)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 12 Jun 2017

If you accept Cohn's invitation to watch their herculean labors, you understand that Lewis, Henson, Jakes, and millions of others live full-time…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 12 Jun 2017

Flashback lurches into tedious flashback, while in the interim, blurs of jerky, chopped-up action and CGI explosions fill the spaces where…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 14 May 2017

Outdated pop culture gives Guardians its master joke, as well as its carefully judged position among other special-effects blockbusters…

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