Imitations of Life Imitations of Life
Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing as a creature of secrets in The Imitation Game.
Nov 25, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
No Fate but Entropy No Fate but Entropy
Swagger and survival in Foxcatcher and Red Army
Nov 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
What Are Movies Good For? What Are Movies Good For?
Awakening a sense of wonder and flooding a cinema with crucial realities.
Oct 21, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
American Minotaur American Minotaur
The flesh-eating creature of Gone Girl is a rampaging composite of dollar signs.
Oct 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Prominent Vacuums Prominent Vacuums
Nadav Schirman’s The Green Prince is a fact-free documentary about collaboration.
Sep 9, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Violent Femme Violent Femme
How Scarlett Johansson learned to become aloof from her own seductiveness.
Aug 12, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Boys, Men, Dogs, Eels Boys, Men, Dogs, Eels
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is as modest and patient an act of daredevilry as has ever been achieved on film.
Jul 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
No Escape No Escape
A new batch of teen films deliver their blows and soften them in a single gesture.
Jun 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
They Have No Graves They Have No Graves
Catholic Innocence meets Jewish Experience after the Holocaust in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida.
May 6, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Worn Muses Worn Muses
Nymphomaniac is Lars von Trier’s latest ode to titillation and traps.
Apr 8, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans