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STUART KLAWANS
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Total Reviews: 260

CRITICS GROUP(S)
• National Society of Film Critics
• New York Film Critics Circle


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Fresh  Zodiac
Fresh  12:08 East of Bucharest
Fresh  Knocked Up
Fresh  3:10 to Yuma
Fresh  The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun
Fresh  The Simpsons Movie
Fresh  The Bourne Ultimatum
Fresh  Paprika
Fresh  Czech Dream
Fresh  Sicko
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Rotten  Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard
Rotten  Spider-Man 3
Rotten  The Good German
Rotten  Inland Empire
Rotten  Blood Diamond
Rotten  The Da Vinci Code
Rotten  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Rotten  Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Rotten  V For Vendetta
Rotten  Hollywoodland
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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" Zodiac is, as everyone says, an unusually complex and ambitious true-crime story, and (more important) a deeply engaging study of three obsessed men."
Posted Oct 18, 2007
 
Zodiac (2007)89%
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" You will laugh till the streetlights blink on again in the damp Romanian twilight."
Posted Oct 6, 2007
 
12:08 East of Bucharest (2007)95%
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" I chuckled some; I smiled a lot."
Posted Sep 15, 2007
 
Knocked Up (2007)91%
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" The studiousness, or maybe affectation, that has informed Mangold's visual style has now been applied to the reproduction of classic Western moviemaking."
Posted Sep 15, 2007
 
3:10 to Yuma (2007)89%
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" A sly, quiet documentary."
Posted Sep 1, 2007
 
The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun (2006)78%
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" Is The Simpsons Movie funny? ...Yes -- but not as funny as it is wide."
Posted Aug 18, 2007
 
The Simpsons Movie (2007)90%
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" The Bourne Ultimatum gives you the satisfaction of seeing conventions fulfilled, then exceeded."
Posted Aug 18, 2007
 
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)93%
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" 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!"
Posted Jul 21, 2007
 
Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)81%
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" Paprika stays in your mind as pure freedom and pure exhilaration."
Posted Jul 17, 2007
 
Paprika (2007)82%
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" Some of this is hilarious, and some appalling."
Posted Jun 30, 2007
 
Czech Dream (2007)82%
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" What will you see in Sicko? Heartbroken, worried, angry, feisty, funny and valiant people. They're irrefutable."
Posted Jun 30, 2007
 
Sicko (2007)93%
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" About a search and not a discovery; about the value of an individual life and the reality of multitudes."
Posted Jun 30, 2007
 
A Mighty Heart (2007)77%
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Posted Jun 9, 2007
 
U-Carmen (2007)95%
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Posted Jun 2, 2007
 
Poison Friends (2007)88%
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" Don't even expect coherence."
Posted May 19, 2007
 
Spider-Man 3 (2007)61%
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Posted May 5, 2007
 
The Bridesmaid (2006)90%
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" You will probably have a ball with Offside, as you get to know the characters, marvel at their get-ups, share in their boisterous defiance and at last watch them join the celebration."
Posted Mar 31, 2007
 
Offside (2006)95%
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" Killer of Sheep is one of those rare films that's so substantial, you feel you could walk around it, test its weight, observe how firmly and forthrightly it meets the ground."
Posted Mar 31, 2007
 
Killer of Sheep (1977)97%
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" The Host is many things, some of them icky. Above all, though, it is the story of how these slapstick figures rise painfully to the level of competence, and beyond."
Posted Mar 18, 2007
 
The Host (2007)92%
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" The grain of the title puts me in mind of everything that nourishes you in the film: its frankness, probity, care and intelligence, offered not just in crumbs but as a whole loaf. I wish this could be our daily bread."
Posted Mar 18, 2007
 
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007)88%
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" There are weddings, parties and a funeral in the movie. Nair knows exactly what to do with these. As a director, she has the instincts of a great hostess -- which I mean as high praise."
Posted Mar 18, 2007
 
The Namesake (2007)85%
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" Recognizing that Zbanic had flattered only her characters and not me, I decided this young filmmaker might be allowed room to grow, despite her awards."
Posted Feb 17, 2007
 
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2007)98%
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" I like melodramas. I also like the way this one downplays the dashing, conventional hero in favor of zipped-up Wiesler, who has understood (rather late, I think) that his bosses have no principles, only power."
Posted Feb 17, 2007
 
The Lives of Others (2006)93%
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" What emerges most powerfully, though, is an intimate sense of sorrow, and of decency. If there is any chance that popular American cinema will continue to be an art form, then I bet Eastwood's Iwo Jima films will stand as a monumental achievement."
Posted Jan 13, 2007
 
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)91%
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" The magic that many films promise actually works in Pan's Labyrinth."
Posted Jan 13, 2007
 
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)96%
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" You may notice that Soderbergh, for all his intelligence, hasn't gotten beneath the surface of his stock figures, into the lived experience that might underlie them."
Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
The Good German (2006)32%
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Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Fast Food Nation (2006)51%
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Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
The History Boys (2006)63%
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" Though certain of his fans may stare mistakenly at his narrative threads, hoping for a pattern to emerge, wiser moviegoers know that Lynch just wants to pull the rug out from under them. Then he slips it back under their feet so he can pull it again."
Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Inland Empire (2006)69%
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Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)31%
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" How do the stars of Blood Diamond make so many improbable escapes from hails of bullets? You'd think the movie ought to be called Near-Death Experience."
Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Blood Diamond (2006)63%
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" Flags of Our Fathers happens to be very good: intelligent, compelling, lovingly made and strikingly appropriate to our present moment in history."
Posted Nov 25, 2006
 
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)73%
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" The goings-on in For Your Consideration are as uproariously funny as in any of Guest's films to date; and thanks to O'Hara's genius, they're a little heartbreaking, too."
Posted Nov 25, 2006
 
For Your Consideration (2006)51%
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" Jentsch keep[s] up a subtle, restrained performance while the movie Nazis around her are screaming themselves red in the face. She succeeds beyond all expectation."
Posted Nov 25, 2006
 
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)87%
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" Borat is the movie of the year, the picture that makes all other films irrelevant."
Posted Nov 25, 2006
 
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)91%
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Posted Nov 25, 2006
 
Our Daily Bread (1934)100%
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" Lovingly cast, suavely directed and always pitched perfectly, whatever its tone, Duck Season is the kind of small, quiet, thoughtful movie that ought to be as abundant as Sunday afternoons."
Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
Duck Season (2006)90%
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Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
The President's Last Bang (2005)80%
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" [The Film's] most powerful forces are confused, unstoppable desires."
Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
Climates (2006)71%
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Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
Blossoms of Fire (2006)50%
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" They make fun of you for watching their movies, and still they get paid!"
Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
The Da Vinci Code (2006)25%
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" It is spendthrift in budget yet cautious in style, steadfast in holding to Lewis's imagination yet timorous about using any of its own."
Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)75%
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Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
Toro Negro (2005)n/a
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Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)35%
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Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
Iron Island (2006)97%
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Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
Excellent Cadavers (1999)63%
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Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
The Boys of Baraka (2005)73%
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Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
Syriana (2005)74%
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" Maybe this material isn't entirely fresh, but Zwigoff delivers it with the snap of a quick punch to the face -- which is, in fact, the first image in the film, and a model for innumerable excellent sight gags to follow."
Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
Art School Confidential (2006)36%
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Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)84%

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