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Chris Klimek

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Born in Topeka, Kansas but taught to fear Jesus in the Northern Virginia suburbs, I quit the East Coast after college for a stay in Ventura, California, where I wrote for an alt-weekly. After earning a screenwriting degree from UCLA, I worked for a magician for a while, but was eventually seduced back east. My writing appears in The Washington City Paper, NPR, The Washington Post, and The Village Voice. I've written for Slate, The Guardian, PASTE and The Indian Express, and I was a contributor to the best film criticism site, The Dissolve, until its demise in 2015. I teach boxing. Orson Welles is my hero. Loves: running, comic books, thunderstorms, old time radio drama, live drums. Hates: treadmills, reality 온라인카지노추천, Auto-Tune. I was a 2009 NEA Institute Fellow, and a 2012/2017 AltWeekly Awards finalist in the category of Arts Criticism, circulation 50,000 and above. In 2015, I was selected as a Critic Fellow for the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Critics Institute.

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The Accountant 2 (2025) 78% “The movie takes the premise of Rain Man (Reunited Brothers, One Charming, One a Troubled Genius) and the bloody border intrigue of Sicario and asks: Why not both? ” – Washington City Paper Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Warfare (2025) 93% “Everyone is convincingly competent, then bored, then terrified. You believe them absolutely.” – Washington City Paper Apr 14, 2025 Full Review Janis Ian: Breaking Silence (2024) 3/4 “Varda Bar-Kar offers a conventional but still compelling synopsis of the iconoclastic singer-songwriter’s long career.” – Washington Post Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 54% “Scharfman’s satire curdles into rote recycling beats from superior creature features.” – Washington City Paper Mar 31, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% “Black Bag, workaholic filmmaker Steven Soderbergh’s slick, svelte new spy thriller—that, shh, is really a workplace comedy—is the most fun I’ve had at a new movie so far in this young year. ” – Washington City Paper Mar 17, 2025 Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 48% “Mackie is a more than capable action hero and a wonderful comedic actor, though BNW makes too little use of the latter superpower.” – Washington City Paper Feb 18, 2025 Full Review Paddington in Peru (2024) 93% 3/4 “It’s still the trilogy’s second-best entry — and that’s no back-pawed compliment.” – Washington Post Feb 13, 2025 Full Review Love Hurts (2025) 19% 1.5/4 “In trying to be everything, everywhere, all at once, it ends up as nothing much.” – Washington Post Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Dog Man (2025) 80% 3/4 ““Dog Man” is a loving and visually inventive if somewhat exhausting parody of cop flicks, superhero sagas and dog-cat tension.” – Washington Post Jan 31, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 50% “Alas, Wolf Man is neither as astute nor as gross nor as haunting as those elevated horror movies. ” – Washington City Paper Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 91% “Nickel Boys shows us that while cruelty is transferable and renewable, empathy is, too. ” – Washington City Paper Jan 9, 2025 Full Review The Fire Inside (2024) 93% 3/4 “Ryan Destiny’s performance as Shields is persuasive and commanding.” – Washington Post Dec 24, 2024 Full Review Moana 2 (2024) 61% 2/4 “The songs aren’t the problem. Rather, it’s the muddled story, which takes way too long to give Moana her mission.” – Washington Post Nov 27, 2024 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% “Mescal is easy to root for, soft-spoken and soft-eyed, convincing in the fight scenes, and holding the screen with authority even when paired with Denzel Washington, the movie’s real draw.” – Washington City Paper Nov 25, 2024 Full Review Here (2024) 37% 2.5/4 “Ironically, it’s Zemeckis’s reluctance to embrace theatrical artifice over attempted photorealism that prevents “Here” from hitting as powerfully as it might. ” – Washington Post Nov 1, 2024 Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 45% “Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is an impenetrable mess that cinephiles will feel obligated to see anyway.” – Washington City Paper Oct 4, 2024 Full Review Wolfs (2024) 67% 3/4 “A key virtue of this comic thriller starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt is its welcome absence of preamble.” – Washington Post Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% “Alien: Romulus gives a long-in-the-glistening-razor-tooth franchise a shot of youthful vigor.” – Washington City Paper Aug 24, 2024 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 78% “I had fun at Deadpool & Wolverine. I only wish its makers could’ve manifested a Dougray Scott cameo. Look it up.” – Washington City Paper Jul 25, 2024 Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% “Again: No Chore to Sit Through. Twisters is both just barely a movie and more of a movie than Twister was, even as it reprises all its precursor’s block-rockin’ beats.” – Washington City Paper Jul 19, 2024 Full Review The Bikeriders (2023) 80% “Bikeriders is no chore to sit through, it just doesn’t have the spark of originality that has animated Nichols’ strongest work. It’s a good film from an artist who’s shown us he’s capable of great ones. ” – Washington City Paper Jun 27, 2024 Full Review Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) 65% “This loosely plotted legasequel tries for its own shock-and-awe variation on the already-chaotic visual grammar of I and II's director Michael Bay, but it's just frenetic camerawork.” – Washington City Paper Jun 13, 2024 Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% “More episodic than its forebear but almost as thrilling. ” – Washington City Paper May 24, 2024 Full Review Challengers (2024) 88% “What we do see is lurid and exciting. You get two charismatic, still-rising actors and one giant movie star sweating and screwing and elsewhere being just as frustrated and defeated by life’s absurd and comedic unfairness as the rest of us.” – Washington City Paper Apr 27, 2024 Full Review Civil War (2024) 81% “Civil War’s performances are uniformly excellent. Rob Hardy’s cinematography and Jake Roberts’ editing are excellent. Garland made a brilliant film. I wish that he had not.” – Washington City Paper Apr 12, 2024 Full Review
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