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Stuart Klawans

The Big Screen: The Last Black Man in San Francisco

By Stuart Klawans
June 6, 2019
Joe Talbot’s lovely, quasi-Dickensian film tells the story of two friends adrift in a changing world

Review: The Woman Who Left

By Stuart Klawans
May 3, 2017
(Lav Diaz, Philippines, Kino Lorber, Opens May 19)

Review: Fire at Sea

By Stuart Klawans
September 6, 2016
(Gianfranco Rosi, Italy/France, Opening October 21)

The Executioner’s Song

By Stuart Klawans
June 28, 2013
In The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer gazes into the genocidal imaginary through the eyes of a mass murderer

Fever Pitch: Sicko

By Stuart Klawans
May 31, 2011
The unruly aesthetic of Michael Moore’s health-care call to arms

Fit to Print

By Stuart Klawans
April 29, 2011
Reading Page One: Inside The New York Times