Chris Klimek

Semi-pro aesthete, less-pro athlete. @washingtonpost critic, @PCHH panelist, @wcp contributor, 51% of @notanumberpod. Sweaty man, sweaty jokes.

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

Glen Weldon is an enemy of the people

[Glen Weldon @ghweldon]

It’s a thing with @ctklimek how much taller he is than Cavill. It’s important to him. So he finally scores a photo with the guy, and all I can think is FORCED PERSPECTIVE FAKE NEWS.

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

New pod incoming! Two of the smartest women I know argue the relative merits of Spielberg’s two friendly-alien classics!

We took the critical insight of @filmspotting Original Recipe & added the primal thrill of bloodsport to give you MOVIE DEATH MATCH!

https://t.co/zQjCLVU6PM

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

SUPERMAN (1978) and SUPERMAN (2025) are both more credible journalism movies than THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 (2026)

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

The drummer and I were in YOU'RE GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN together in the 80s and I'd like to think that experience influenced his approach to percussion.

https://t.co/JZ28MQGaMN via @YouTube

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

Which of the ALIEN-ad's "artifical persons" is the most human? I'm arguing it's the one you barely recall, RE: Call.

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[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

Gunn’s SUPERMAN? Doggy. The franchise Donner’s SUPERMAN launched 47 years earlier? Dodgy — but still preferable to the
Sturm und Drag of the Snyderverse.

Anyway, here’s a history. Didn’t have room for the Donner Cut, sorry.

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[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

Me on #FantasticFour FIRST STEPS. When it comes to putting the First Family of Marvel Comics in the movies, the fourth time's the charm.

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[Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions]

"You don’t often see this in movies, but most spies have to be boring to be good at their jobs," @ctklimek writes. https://t.co/kzWAHXsJmO

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — THE FRENCH DISPATCH

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — ASTEROID CITY

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME

etc.

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

Each #yulemix, I reach a point where I realize it’s time to stop. This year it was when I was about to put in the lady yelling “JUDAS!” at Dylan in response to a Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog joke.

CHRISTMAS TO CHRISTMAS, the Charlie XIXth installment:
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[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

Seems like there’s nothing in the world to talk about besides HERE, a reunion of FORREST GUMP wherein Bob Zemeckis once again proves he’ll never stop trying to bridge that uncanny goddamn valley. Did he not see DA FIVE BLOODS? https://t.co/7elq2tGm7y

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

Democracy Dies in Diffidence

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

On the Folger's very Woolly Mammoth-looking, AI-assisted, new ROMEO AND JULIET. Love those two crazy kids.
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[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

Today’s incongruous (probably) double feature: JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX in the afternoon, BEING THERE in the evening.

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

On MISTER LINCOLN and another show about the president elected four score and seven years after his assassination, EISENHOWER: THIS PIECE OF GROUND. With a link to “We an Are the Mediocre Presidents” from THE SIMPSONS for all y’all who prefer musicals.
https://t.co/NzvoQ2X9m6

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

The complete @NotaNumberPod archive remains available for all y’all who refuse to be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered.

[Six of One: The Prisoner Appreciation Society @SixofOne_No6]

Today marks the anniversary of the screening of The Prisoner on British TV. First screened 29th September 1967, to this day people are still taking about it. The show continues to draw new fans of all ages. A testament to what many people regard as the finest TV show of all time

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

New ⁦⁦⁦@pchh⁩: ⁦@craftingmystyle⁩ ⁦@ghweldon⁩ ⁦@Bedatri⁩ & I begin the decades-long process of dissecting Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making MEGALOPOLIS. The Megalon is unsafe! https://t.co/QexCLxkaY4

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

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On Spooky Action Theater’s CRACKING ZEUS, a shaky marriage of myth and naturalism that likens the thrill of a god-on-mortal tryst to a crack high. https://t.co/V6HqcBXQeX

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

George *and* Brad, that is. It's not that kind of movies.

Also, I just discovered I actually reviewed something called WOLVES, years ago.

[Chris Klimek @ctklimek]

Me on WOLFS, the pluralization-punking reunion of cranky lions-in-winter George in Brad that’s in a few cinemas for one week only before it gets dumped in the Pine Barrens of AppleTV+. Coulda used a bit more Amy Ryan, but what couldn’t? https://t.co/YkQR58g79d

[Sarah Marloff @SarahMarloff]

Flattered to be joining theater critics @ctklimek and @here4andre and wonderful moderator @halvorsen for a Theatre Week panel on the highlights of the 2024-25 season. Come listen to us! And ask questions too! https://t.co/D4HBzNXEEu