Stuart Klawans

Film Critic

Stuart Klawans was the film critic for The Nation from 1988 through 2020

Pursuit of Happiness

Pursuit of Happiness Pursuit of Happiness

Christopher Nolan's Inception; Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime; Samuel Maoz's Lebanon

Aug 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Ben Sonnenberg Ben Sonnenberg

The former editor of Grand Street was a dandy without snobbism, an aesthete without pretense.

Jun 30, 2010 / Stuart Klawans

Cornered

Cornered Cornered

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's 12th & Delaware; Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger's Restrepo; Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me; Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are Al...

Jun 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Icons and Zombies Icons and Zombies

Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead.

May 26, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Abnormal Norm The Abnormal Norm

A film series organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and ArteEast tries to make sense of Lebanon's Civil War.

Apr 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

One From the Heart One From the Heart

The superficial sincerity of Noah Baumbach's Greenberg is not to be trusted.

Mar 31, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Vision or Blindness? Vision or Blindness?

In Jacques Audiard's <i>A Prophet</i>, clairvoyance has its limits.

Mar 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

No Way Out No Way Out

The Red Riding trilogy; Martin Campbell's Edge of Darkness.

Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Imaginariums Imaginariums

James Cameron's Avatar, Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and more.

Jan 7, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Containing Welles Containing Welles

Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles, Jason Reitman's Up in the Air and Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces.

Dec 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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