The Nation

Stuart Klawans The Nation Sep 24, 2026 The work of an 87-year-old who has enjoyed a rich life making films, and has enriched the world immeasurably by making film history. Go to Full Review Wild Grass (2009) 70% 37%

Stuart Klawans The Nation Sep 24, 2026 I can compare the film only to Luchino Visconti’s great La Terra Trema for its combination of extraordinary beauty, outraged social conscience and almost mythic grandeur. Go to Full Review Araya (1959) 92% 91%

Robert Hatch The Nation Feb 3, 2026 A noisy, extravagant, sometimes sloppy picture; not all of its plot details can stand critical afterthought and at the end it ducks its own conclusion. For all that, it is both entertainment and uncomfortably forthright social criticism. Go to Full Review Ace in the Hole (1951) 88% 92%

Lovia Gyarkye The Nation Dec 17, 2025 While After the Hunt is occasionally gripping it's more often a plodding film that abandons any promise of real, complex insights in order to chase the fleeting highs of unsatisfying provocation. Go to Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 36% - -

Elizabeth Borgwardt The Nation Dec 17, 2025 The screenplay suggests that casting people into legal limbo is a harbinger of darker times to come. Go to Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% - -

Beatrice Loayza The Nation Dec 17, 2025 Instead, the film shines as a character study. As alienating as it is recognizable, Linda’s fickle behavior makes her a poor symbol for all mothers, refreshingly so. Go to Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% - -

Alana Pockros The Nation Dec 17, 2025 In the hands of Trier, the sentimental becomes a site of real growth. Watching Sentimental Value, any viewer will get the sense that Trier is dedicated to a classic tradition of filmmaking one doesn’t get to see so often nowadays. Go to Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 95% - -

Naomi Gordon-Loebl The Nation Dec 17, 2025 In Scott Cooper’s new biopic we see a version of Bruce Springsteen that’s been stripped of all the complexity, contradictions, and political substance that made his work enduring in the first place. Go to Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% - -

Vikrum Murthi The Nation Dec 17, 2025 Kelly Reichardt’s latest, a sly 1970s drama involving a museum theft, probes the broken politics of the decade. Go to Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 89% - -

John Semley The Nation Dec 17, 2025 One Battle After Another, a sensational adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel, captures the manic energies of a country on the brink. Go to Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% - -

Kelli Weston The Nation Sep 10, 2025 So much of what doesn’t work about Eddington finds its origins in this lack of curiosity and reticence to reckon with the uglier dimensions of what afflicts this country. Go to Full Review Eddington (2025) 69% - -

Stuart Klawans The Nation Jul 1, 2025 Steven Spielberg wants you to jump, and you do. I suppose he could get an audience to wiggle its ears on cue. But this is all autonomic activity. The forebrain has nothing to do. Go to Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% 95%

Gilbert Seldes The Nation Jun 24, 2025 Essentially it is hokum, but it is Chaplin's supreme talent to endow everything he does with life, and the hokum disappears under his magic hands, becoming the pure gold of comedy. Go to Full Review The Gold Rush (1925) 98% 93%

Robert Hatch The Nation Mar 27, 2025 The comedy is energetic. Go to Full Review Rancho Deluxe (1975) 61% 40%

Robert Hatch The Nation Mar 8, 2025 Dick Richards directs the show hard and fast, fighting for laughs every mile of the road and getting quite a few -- never mind how. Go to Full Review Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975) 52% 44%

Robert Hatch The Nation Mar 3, 2025 I was not amused by Shampoo as farce, nor instructed by it as satire. Go to Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% 53%

Robert Hatch The Nation Feb 25, 2025 Barry Lyndon is as stultifying as it is prodigious. For a start, the picture appears to have been designed by someone who learned the art at Madame Tussaud's. Go to Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 77% 92%

Beatrice Loayza The Nation Nov 9, 2024 In Sean Baker’s tragicomic film of a sex worker’s brush with wealth, he evokes auteurs of yore, who focused on the social realities of the country’s outcasts. Go to Full Review Anora (2024) 93% - -

Ahmed Moor The Nation Nov 6, 2024 No Other Land is a documentary in the literal sense of the word: Basel and other activists are documenting their dispossession. Go to Full Review No Other Land (2024) 100% - -

David Klion The Nation Oct 25, 2024 There is guilty pleasure to be found in a comfortably malevolent Cohn tutoring an unformed Trump, but there’s limited pathos in watching the pupil reject the master... Go to Full Review The Apprentice (2024) 83% - -