Stuart Klawans
Film Critic
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Film July 21, 2017
A Summer of Special Effects
On one end of the scale, there’s the stroke of cinematic inspiration in A Ghost Story; on the other are CGI inventions like the astonishing Okja.
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Film July 1, 2017
The Manufactured Images of ‘The Reagan Show’
The new documentary film is both a valiant exposé and a victim of the president’s publicity machine.
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Film June 9, 2017
Wonder Women
If you’re looking for a heroine at the movies this summer, you should look beyond the latest superhero story.
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Film May 12, 2017
Acts of Insolence
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is earnest in a way that’s ill-suited to a movie that pretends to razz the whole superhero business.
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Film April 26, 2017
The Decade Before the LA Riots
Let It Fall is a comprehensive history of how Los Angeles tore itself apart from 1982 to 1992, as well as the story of a dozen or more personal tragedies.
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Film April 21, 2017
When Big Names Are Everywhere
Norman and Obit are movies lovingly dedicated to the virtues of the small and the anonymous.
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Film March 28, 2017
Terence Davies’s Counter-Séance
A Quiet Passion doesn’t pretend to recall the skeptical spirit of Emily Dickinson to the land of the living but rather projects you into her departed world.
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Film February 16, 2017
Is ‘The Salesman’ the Best Foreign-Language Film of 2016?
Stuart Klawans on Asghar Farhadi’s new feature.
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Film December 21, 2016
Light and Love From Year-End Movies
Retrieve what you like, during these darkest weeks of a very dark year.
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Film November 17, 2016
Those Wondrous Powers
What Arrival offers is so valuable that you might almost choose to pretend that someone knew we were going to need this picture after Trump’s election.
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