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Critics / Dana Stevens
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    DANA STEVENS

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

    Publications: New York Times, Slate

    Critics' Group: New York Film Critics Online

    Total Reviews: 396

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    84%

    Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

    " Like the water snake that slithers by during the opening credits or the baby crocodile from whose point of view we observe one roadside scene, this movie is a freaky little swamp thing." — Slate

    Posted Nov 20, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    29%

    The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

    " Mopey, draggy, and absurdly self-important, the movie nonetheless twangs at some resonant affective chord." — Slate

    Posted Nov 19, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    91%

    Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

    " You don't want to watch this movie, you want to climb inside it and play." — Slate

    Posted Nov 13, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    56%

    Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)

    " How they made it into this Disney adaptation unprettified is a Christmas miracle in itself." — Slate

    Posted Nov 6, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    91%

    Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)

    " In offering up their heroine's misery for the audience's delectation, they've created something uncomfortably close to poverty porn." — Slate

    Posted Nov 5, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    83%

    Paranormal Activity (2009)

    " Though it never poses a question more abstract than "Where's that scratching sound coming from?" Paranormal Activity is all about spiritual and ethical debts coming due." — Slate

    Posted Oct 30, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    81%

    Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)

    " This Is It is one of the best documents of live performance that I've ever seen, a rehearsal diary that's more intimate and immediate than a traditional concert film." — Slate

    Posted Oct 28, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    20%

    Amelia (2009)

    " Directed by Mira Nair and executive-produced by its star Hilary Swank, the movie seems oddly preoccupied with the audience's approval for its subject." — Slate

    Posted Oct 23, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    48%

    Antichrist (2009)

    " After the infantile bludgeoning that is Antichrist), I feel no need to keep accompanying von Trier's career at all." — Slate

    Posted Oct 22, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    100%

    The Maid (2009)

    " If Luis Buñuel had joined forces with the Dogme 95 movement and moved to modern-day Santiago, Chile, he might have made a movie like The Maid." — Slate

    Posted Oct 16, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    70%

    Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

    " Jonze and Eggers' approach to the book is both original and well-intentioned; it's clear that they take both Sendak and childhood seriously (though not as seriously as they take themselves). It's just too bad the end result isn't a better movie." — Slate

    Posted Oct 15, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    95%

    Good Hair (2009)

    " The result is a pop documentary in the Morgan Spurlock mode, cheeky and smart without being too serious." — Slate

    Posted Oct 9, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    94%

    An Education (2009)

    " As with first love, so with the movies: The right girl makes it all worthwhile." — Slate

    Posted Oct 8, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    56%

    The Invention of Lying (2009)

    " Despite the ambitious scope of its premise, this confounding, disappointing and, in the end, depressing movie is content to devote 80 percent of its screen time to wondering who gets to kiss the girl." — Slate

    Posted Oct 2, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    86%

    A Serious Man (2009)

    " An exquisitely realized work; the filmmakers' technical mastery of their craft, always impressive, has become absolute." — Slate

    Posted Oct 1, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    83%

    Bright Star (2009)

    " The rare film about the life of an artist that is itself a work of art." — Slate

    Posted Sep 25, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    75%

    Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

    " Moore's choice to make "capitalism" his straw man (rather than, say, greed or Reagan-era deregulation) puts him in closer company than he might like with some pretty nasty world-historical bedfellows." — Slate

    Posted Sep 24, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    76%

    The Informant! (2009)

    " Mark's collection of bizarre behaviors doesn't add up to a character." — Slate

    Posted Sep 19, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    45%

    Jennifer's Body (2009)

    " Kusama and Cody's collaboration is a wicked black comedy with unexpected emotional resonance, one of the most purely pleasurable movies of the year so far." — Slate

    Posted Sep 17, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    89%

    No Impact Man (2009)

    " You may find Colin Beavan unbearably smug, but at the heart of his mission lies an inconvenient truth: Our consumable, disposable, unsustainable culture is destroying the planet, and there's no way to change that without making sacrifices." — Slate

    Posted Sep 17, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    56%

    9 (2009)

    " It's easy to see why Acker's gifts caught the attention of these directors; he's a visual craftsman of no little promise. Now if he can just stitch together a story with the same loving care that went into creating those digital burlap dolls..." — Slate

    Posted Sep 10, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    70%

    American Casino (2009)

    " As the Cockburns interview exterminators and local police about the rats' nests and meth labs that tend to proliferate in foreclosed homes, the corruption metaphor is like something out of a Nathanael West novel." — Slate

    Posted Sep 10, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    63%

    Extract (2009)

    " Like Judge's first two live-action films, Extract seems destined to do minor business at the box office but achieve a kind of immortality as a cult DVD." — Slate

    Posted Sep 3, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    86%

    Big Fan (2009)

    " With its unremittingly bleak humor and eagerness to plumb the depths of fanboy abjection, Big Fan seems destined for a future in the cult canon." — Slate

    Posted Aug 28, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    49%

    Taking Woodstock (2009)

    " Even as a mind-clearing break from Lee's darker, more ambitious work, Taking Woodstock is an underachieving movie, so slight and gentle-spirited that it seems to be looking at the summer of 1969 through a scrim of rosy gauze." — Slate

    Posted Aug 27, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    86%

    The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009)

    " This starkly unromantic epic ultimately benefits from its 150-minute running time, immersing the audience in the RAF's journey from shared passion to collective madness as their movement runs its full, sad, bloody course." — Slate

    Posted Aug 21, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    88%

    Inglourious Basterds (2009)

    " Tarantino's signature nastiness and his juvenile delight in shocking the audience undercut the movie's larger purpose." — Slate

    Posted Aug 21, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    38%

    The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)

    " Long spans of time pass between lines of dialogue, many of which seem to have been inexpertly translated from a foreign language so that they almost make sense but not quite." — Slate

    Posted Aug 14, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    91%

    Ponyo (2009)

    " Ponyo has elements of both a classic fairy tale and an environmental message movie, but it shifts as nimbly between those genres as Ponyo herself does from person to goldfish and back again." — Slate

    Posted Aug 12, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    75%

    Julie & Julia (2009)

    " Makes deboning a duck a feminist act and cooking a great meal a creative triumph. The stakes may not be as high as the kill-or-be-killed suspense of a summer action movie, but the sauces are way tastier." — Slate

    Posted Aug 6, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    85%

    Lorna's Silence (2009)

    " That's as much as you should know before going into Lorna's Silence, which combines Bressonian aesthetic rigor with Hitchcockian suspense." — Slate

    Posted Jul 31, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    68%

    Funny People (2009)

    " Judd Apatow may be the first filmmaker to jeopardize his career through excessive niceness." — Slate

    Posted Jul 30, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    95%

    In the Loop (2009)

    " The first successful satire inspired by the Iraq war comes not from the country that started it, but from the sceptered isle that was our most important ally." — Slate

    Posted Jul 23, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    75%

    Humpday (2009)

    " Humpday may not be the single best movie I've seen so far this year -- though it's certainly a contender for the title -- but it's without doubt the most surprising." — Slate

    Posted Jul 17, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    87%

    500 Days of Summer (2009)

    " If only some sharp-eyed script editor had run 500 Days through the de-sappifying machine, it could have been the first great romantic comedy of 2009." — Slate

    Posted Jul 16, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    83%

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

    " Despite the preponderance of (PG-rated) snogging, there are pleasures to be found along this movie's meandering path." — Slate

    Posted Jul 15, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    67%

    Public Enemies (2009)

    " It's like spending an afternoon -- a long one -- at a beautifully lit wax-museum display inspired by earlier gangster movies." — Slate

    Posted Jul 1, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    98%

    The Hurt Locker (2009)

    " By keeping its scale miniature instead of epic (there are no combat scenes in the traditional sense), The Hurt Locker keeps its audience in a constant state of tension without risking battle fatigue." — Slate

    Posted Jun 26, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    19%

    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

    " The simplest thing Bay could have done to clarify the stakes of the robot wars would be to visually distinguish the robots from one another in some way. Armbands? Shirts and skins? "Hello, My Name Is" stickers?" — Slate

    Posted Jun 24, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    47%

    Whatever Works (2009)

    " The idea of wedding Woody Allen's comic persona (the introverted nebbish) to Larry David's (the entitled jerk) sounds promising on paper, but as Boris portentously observes just before his unsuccessful suicide attempt, life doesn't take place on paper." — Slate

    Posted Jun 19, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    15%

    Year One (2009)

    " Year One is a slapdash concoction with an overreliance on scatological gags and a long lag time between laughs. I freely admit that. Yet I have a certain affection for this movie, if only because of its conceptual simplicity." — Slate

    Posted Jun 19, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    66%

    Away We Go (2009)

    " Away We Go is like a disappointing term paper by a promising student." — Slate

    Posted Jun 5, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    25%

    Land of the Lost (2009)

    " Land of the Lost is an enjoyable regression to Saturday mornings gone by, as junky and sweet as a strawberry Pop-Tart." — Slate

    Posted Jun 5, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    78%

    The Hangover (2009)

    " This kind of 'one crazy night' tale relies on drum-tight structure to work. Without it, The Hangover sputters to a sentimental halt." — Slate

    Posted Jun 5, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    98%

    Up (2009)

    " What's marvelous about Up is how confidently it assumes the audience will smartly follow wherever it wants to take us." — Slate

    Posted May 28, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    62%

    The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

    " Though the result is thematically slight, it's structurally sophisticated enough to reward a second viewing (or at least, unlike Grey's previous work, to be watched all the way through)." — Slate

    Posted May 22, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    32%

    Terminator Salvation (2009)

    " A good summer movie isn't just an uninterrupted crescendo of cacophony. You need stuff in between the fireballs and the cyborgs." — Slate

    Posted May 21, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    45%

    Management (2009)

    " Despite the essential implausibility of the story, Management remains for the most part as endearing as its leads." — Slate

    Posted May 15, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    64%

    The Brothers Bloom (2009)

    " One question rings hollowly in the brain for the length this painfully twee romp: What hath Wes Anderson wrought?" — Slate

    Posted May 15, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    36%

    Angels & Demons (2009)

    " If nothing else, Angels & Demons proves that, as McGuffins go, a cylinder of antimatter is more fun than the Holy Grail." — Slate

    Posted May 14, 2009
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