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Stuart Klawans

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Publications:: The Nation
Critics' Group:: National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews:: 280

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/5	——	War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)	" Whistle-blowers become effective when their information appears in a news outlet's reliably sober columns - not in a bar mitzvah video." — New York Times Posted Apr 18, 2013
	100%	Portrait of Jason (1967)	" By the end of the long night's shoot, Clarke knew she had captured one of the most involving, uncompromising and revelatory human documents in the history of cinema." — The Nation Posted Apr 12, 2013
	97%	Unforgiven (1992)	" Clint Eastwood's westerns are distinctive, and that Unforgiven, as the most fully realized, is the most distinctive of all." — The Nation Posted Feb 12, 2013
	71%	Forrest Gump (1994)	" The greatest pleasure the picture affords Americans is most likely a sense of relief; Forrest Gump assures us that we've awakened from the nightmare of history; that all is forgiven, and most has already been forgotten." — The Nation Posted Jan 15, 2013
	97%	Schindler's List (1993)	" There are a few moments -- a handful, out of a three-hour film -- in which Spielberg does push the story into melodrama. As for the rest, though, Schindler's List has a real and unexpected integrity." — The Nation Posted Jan 15, 2013
—	——	The Target Shoots First (2000)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	——	Punitive Damages (1999)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	77%	Excellent Cadavers (In un altro paese) (2005)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	——	Sibirskiy tsiryulnik (The Barber of Siberia) (1999)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	96%	One Lucky Elephant (2011)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	——	President's Last Bang (Geuddae geusaramdeul) ()	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	——	Toro Negro (2006)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	——	Exiled (Exiled: A Law & Order Movie) (1998)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	78%	The Fury (1978)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	——	Moment of Impact ()	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	——	No (1998)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	71%	Octubre (2011)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	100%	Shoah (1985)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	70%	9 Star Hotel (Malon 9 Kochavim) (2007)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	24%	King of the Jungle (2000)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	80%	Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion (2007)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	——	Les enfants du pays ()	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	71%	The Last Days of Disco (1998)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	——	From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff (1999)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	——	Belfast, Maine (1999)	— The Nation Posted Jul 15, 2011
—	73%	Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish (2011)	— The Nation Posted Jul 12, 2011
	98%	Inside Job (2010)	" Inside Job really is the movie of the decade, unfortunately." — The Nation Posted Jan 3, 2011
—	——	Committing Poetry in Times of War (2007)	— The Nation Posted Jan 3, 2011
—	30%	Survival of the Dead (2010)	— The Nation Posted Jan 3, 2011
—	96%	Breathless (À bout de souffle) (By a Tether) (1961)	— The Nation Posted Jan 3, 2011
—	——	Middletown (2006)	— The Nation Posted Jan 3, 2011
	86%	Inception (2010)	" What is the point of having an imagination, I ask you, if the only thing that can be imagined is mayhem, perpetrated without regard for even the appearance of human life?" — The Nation Posted Jan 3, 2011
—	69%	Life During Wartime (2010)	" Wouldn't the world be wonderful if Inception were the film left to straggle through a two-week run in the art houses, and Life During Wartime got to be the blockbuster?" — The Nation Posted Jan 3, 2011
	86%	Meek's Cutoff (2011)	" You might be tempted to call Meek's Cutoff an exercise in feminist, multiculturalist piety if these two latter characters had any clear idea of what they were doing, or an overriding motive other than self-preservation; but they don't, and you won't." — The Nation Posted Jan 3, 2011
	90%	Lebanon (Levanon) (2010)	" It's a strong film, complex in many ways, and seems to me to come from a genuinely stricken conscience. But in its formal probity, Lebanon turns into a moral dodge." — The Nation Posted Jan 3, 2011
	96%	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)	" For people who take their movies seriously, a quick course in Romanian might now be necessary -- and so is a trip to the theater to see 4 Months." — The Nation Posted Oct 18, 2008
	80%	Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (The Flight of the Red Balloon) (2007)	" As if playing a serenely refined game, Hou transforms constraint into freedom -- which feels more to the point than any plotbound interpretation." — The Nation Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	92%	Shakespeare Behind Bars (2005)	— The Nation Posted Oct 18, 2008
	90%	Zodiac (2007)	" Zodiac is, as everyone says, an unusually complex and ambitious true-crime story, and (more important) a deeply engaging study of three obsessed men." — The Nation Posted Oct 18, 2007
	96%	A fost sau n-a fost?, (12:08 East of Bucharest) (2007)	" You will laugh till the streetlights blink on again in the damp Romanian twilight." — The Nation Posted Oct 6, 2007
	91%	Knocked Up (2007)	" I chuckled some; I smiled a lot." — The Nation Posted Sep 15, 2007
	88%	3:10 to Yuma (2007)	" The studiousness, or maybe affectation, that has informed Mangold's visual style has now been applied to the reproduction of classic Western moviemaking." — The Nation Posted Sep 15, 2007
	79%	The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun (2006)	" A sly, quiet documentary." — The Nation Posted Sep 1, 2007
	90%	The Simpsons Movie (2007)	" Is The Simpsons Movie funny? ...Yes -- but not as funny as it is wide." — The Nation Posted Aug 18, 2007
	94%	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	" The Bourne Ultimatum gives you the satisfaction of seeing conventions fulfilled, then exceeded." — The Nation Posted Aug 18, 2007
	81%	Live Free or Die Hard (2007)	" God must love summer movies, since He designed my nervous system so the frontal lobes could be left idle while the core delights in bursts of pulsing orange fireballs set against an otherwise gun-metal palette. But we must evolve!" — The Nation Posted Jul 21, 2007
	83%	Paprika (2006)	" Paprika stays in your mind as pure freedom and pure exhilaration." — The Nation Posted Jul 17, 2007
	80%	Czech Dream (Ceský sen) (2003)	" Some of this is hilarious, and some appalling." — The Nation Posted Jun 30, 2007
	93%	Sicko (2007)	" What will you see in Sicko? Heartbroken, worried, angry, feisty, funny and valiant people. They're irrefutable." — The Nation Posted Jun 30, 2007

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