ROTTEN TOMATOES: Dana Stevens

DANA STEVENS

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Publications: New York Times, Slate

Critics' Group: New York Film Critics Online

Total Reviews: 401

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Rotten	Rotten 57%	Brothers (2009)	" After watching this movie, I had what you might call Portman Traumautic Stress Disorder, a condition that leaves you twitchy, irritable, and in need of a well-acted light comedy." — Slate Posted Dec 4, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	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	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
Fresh	Fresh 87%	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
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
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 51%	Body of Lies (2008)	" I'm still waiting for the war-on-terror thriller that has more on its mind than the threat al-Qaida poses to movie stars." — Slate Posted Oct 10, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008)	" *The timing of its release is so perfect, and the figure at its center so fascinating, that Boogie Man* is nonetheless required viewing for anyone obsessed with the 2008 race.*" — Slate* Posted Sep 26, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 77%	Burn After Reading (2008)	" *For those who like their black comedy without a trace of cream or sugar, Burn* holds up as a minor Coen brothers comedy, a Hudsucker Proxy rather than a Big Lebowski.*" — Slate* Posted Sep 11, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 47%	Bottle Shock (2008)	" Why did I feel such affection for this scruffy, hokey little movie? Maybe it's the same logic that applies to wine-drinking itself: Sure, a great claret would be ideal, but an OK ros� is better than washing down your dinner with water." — Slate Posted Aug 7, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 77%	Baghead (2008)	" The movie's concern with its characters' shifting alliances and petty vanities also evokes early John Sayles and, at times, Eric Rohmer." — Slate Posted Jul 25, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 63%	Baby Mama (2008)	" The most disappointing movie of the year so far." — Slate Posted Apr 24, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 65%	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	" It's hard to get too cranky about a movie that, at heart, is a tribute to the joy of making things with your friends." — Slate Posted Feb 22, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 98%	The Band's Visit (2007)	" At moments, the movie is almost sentimental, but the performances save it every time." — Slate Posted Feb 8, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 80%	The Business Of Being Born (2008)	" [It's] so selective in its presentation of information that it makes Michael Moore look like a fat lady in a blindfold holding a pair of scales." — Slate Posted Jan 14, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 71%	Beowulf (2007)	" Comic-Con geeks and cinephiles alike will gape at the resplendent imagery (but don ye specs, and see it in 3-D)." — Slate Posted Nov 16, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 51%	Bee Movie (2007)	" The movie's more than cute, funny, and (at 81 minutes) brisk enough to move families in and out of the multiplex in mass quantities, like the social insects we are." — Slate Posted Nov 5, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)	" It revisits [Dog Day Afternoon's] claustrophobic suspense and deep compassion for its characters -- abject, grasping everymen who truly believe they're only one act of violence away from everything they've ever wanted." — Slate Posted Oct 26, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 59%	Bug (2007)	" This is a movie about the dangers of letting love rob you of your reason and cut you off from the world, and, bugs in the bloodstream or not, who hasn't been there?" — Slate Posted May 25, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 69%	Blades of Glory (2007)	" Blades of Glory does have its moments of loopy ingenuity, even if none of them goes quite far enough." — Slate Posted Mar 29, 2007
Rotten	Fresh 65%	Black Snake Moan (2007)	" Depriving a near-naked and recently assaulted stranger of the most basic physical liberty for days on end is a sick, perverse, and cruel thing to do. Black Snake Moan appears to be -- or, worse, pretends to be -- oblivious to that simple fact." — Slate Posted Mar 1, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 62%	Blood Diamond (2006)	" [Director Zwick] is craftsman enough that the pace never slackens, the chase scenes thrill, and the battle scenes sicken. And if it makes viewers think twice about buying their sweethearts that hard-won hunk of ice for Christmas, so much the better." — Slate Posted Dec 8, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)	" Its best jokes approach some savage, atavistic core of cultural taboo and make the viewer wonder: Is it really possible to laugh at this? But by the time you formulate that question, it's too late: You're already laughing." — Slate Posted Nov 2, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 67%	The Bridge (2006)	" *You leave The Bridge* with a new appreciation for your (relative) mental stability and a vow to make the most of your brief, ephemeral life.*" — Slate* Posted Oct 27, 2006
Fresh	Fresh 68%	Babel (2006)	" *Makes Crash, another recent film with converging stories and a multicultural cast, look like an undergraduate term paper on race relations." — Slate* Posted Oct 26, 2006
Rotten	Rotten 34%	The Black Dahlia (2006)	" *There's more moral weight in one paragraph of James Ellroy's somber 1987 novel The Black Dahlia* than in all 121 minutes of Brian De Palma's florid, sprawling, self-satisfied film version.*" — Slate* Posted Sep 14, 2006
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 53%	Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story (2006)	This spoof of sports biopics is essentially an extended improvisational skit, with a troupe of comics riffing on a central joke (the elevation of paintball to a noble calling). — New York Times Posted Apr 12, 2006
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 44%	The Big Question (2006)	" An exploration of personal religious belief in which members of the cast and crew of [The Passion of the Christ], as well as people from the southern Italian villages where it was made, are asked to ponder the question, 'What is God to you?'" — New York Times Posted Mar 16, 2006
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 50%	Blossoms of Fire (2006)	Maureen Gosling's documentary aims to demythologize the Zapotec people of Juchitán, a town on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southeastern Mexico. — New York Times Posted Feb 2, 2006
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 31%	The Baxter (2005)	" A Baxter of a movie: well meaning and mildly likable, but unlikely to sweep you off your feet." — New York Times Posted Aug 25, 2005
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 60%	Beyond the Sea (2005)	" Beyond the Sea (Más Allá del Mar) not to be confused with the recent Bobby Darin biopic of the same English title, tells the story of the Mariel boatlift from Cuba." — New York Times Posted Mar 23, 2005
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 79%	Beautiful Boxer (2005)	" A rare hybrid: an underdog sports picture that's also a transgender fairy tale." — New York Times Posted Feb 24, 2005

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