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Dana Stevens

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications:: New York Times , Slate
Critics' Group:: New York Film Critics Online

Total Reviews:: 674

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67%	The Iceman (2013)	" Shannon inhabits this character so completely that by the end of this hard-to-watch, hard-to-look-away-from movie you feel you can, if not understand Richie, at least wish he had found some redemption in life." — Slate Posted May 2, 2013
78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Unfortunately, [its] sharp-eyed domestic comedy is dwarfed by the far less well-written supervillain crime plot that surrounds it." — Slate Posted May 2, 2013
52%	The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)	" Nair is so busy making sure we never lose sympathy for her handsome and charming protagonist that the film ultimately founders in a tangle of humanist platitudes." — Slate Posted Apr 28, 2013
46%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" I'm still not sure whether to mildly like or mildly hate this movie." — Slate Posted Apr 25, 2013
77%	42 (2013)	" By burnishing Jackie Robinson's legend to such an unnaturally high polish, 42 does Robinson the man (and the actor who plays him, the relative newcomer Chadwick Boseman) a disservice." — Slate Posted Apr 11, 2013
42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" I didn't like the movie at all-found it boring, unintentionally comical, at times even (a word I seldom use) pretentious ..." — Slate Posted Apr 11, 2013
62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" Though it never channels the raw DIY energy of the original Evil Dead series -- what big-budget version could? -- this polished, clever remake remains true to the spirit of the original, which was at once viscerally terrifying and weirdly lighthearted." — Slate Posted Apr 5, 2013
47%	Heaven's Gate (1980)	" On a purely sensory level, Heaven's Gate is overpowering." — Slate Posted Apr 1, 2013
81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" Each chapter of The Place Beyond the Pines gets successively less interesting than the last ..." — Slate Posted Mar 28, 2013
43%	Admission (2013)	" This would be a good movie for a parent to watch with a high-school-age child facing down the college admissions slog-it's mildly snarky but resolutely uncynical." — Slate Posted Mar 22, 2013
66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" Any irregularity in tone becomes a part of the movie's intentionally rough, imperfect surface-a formal strategy I might find interesting if I could make head or tail of what the movie that's using it is trying to say." — Slate Posted Mar 20, 2013
79%	Reality (2013)	" [Arena's] feverish urgency matches his character's, right up through the movie's dreamlike final scene ..." — Slate Posted Mar 15, 2013
79%	Ginger & Rosa (2013)	" Packs an impressive amount of personal and political history into a wispy 90 minutes of screen time." — Slate Posted Mar 15, 2013
38%	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)	" It's a long, limping slog from the halfway point to the finish line, even if the actors have built up enough goodwill by then that it's bearable to coast the movie out." — Slate Posted Mar 14, 2013
90%	Beyond The Hills (2013)	" The complexity of the film's moral world makes the movie far more than a simple anti-religious screed." — Slate Posted Mar 10, 2013
60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" A visually over-crammed, emotionally empty mega-spectacle on the model of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland." — Slate Posted Mar 7, 2013
92%	No (2013)	" There will have to be a hell of a lot of good movies released in 2013 for No not to make my list of the year's 10 best." — Slate Posted Feb 28, 2013
82%	Like Someone in Love (2013)	" Like Someone in Love is a movie that never quite lets you through to the other side of the glass, but it's dazzling to watch whatever drifts by on the surface." — Slate Posted Feb 15, 2013
15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" Few fans of the series would disagree that this sclerotic fifth installment should probably be the last." — Slate Posted Feb 14, 2013
20%	Identity Thief (2013)	" Thanks to McCarthy's abundant comic gifts and those of her equally ill-served straight man Jason Bateman, Identity Thief doesn't leave nearly as icky a taste as it could have, but Gordon only taps into a fraction of his actors' potential." — Slate Posted Feb 8, 2013
85%	Side Effects (2013)	" Provides a minor but distinct kind of cinematic pleasure: the joy of sitting back and letting a master manipulator mess with your head." — Slate Posted Feb 7, 2013
80%	Warm Bodies (2013)	" These bodies, whether human or zombie, feel room-temperature at best." — Slate Posted Jan 31, 2013
87%	Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013)	" It's Herzog's inventive use of voice-over that elevates the film above an extremely well-researched episode of Nature." — Slate Posted Jan 25, 2013
65%	Mama (2013)	" Even if the beats are familiar, Muschietti sustains a remarkable mood throughout: wintry, elemental and stark, like a late Sylvia Plath poem." — Slate Posted Jan 24, 2013
60%	John Dies at the End (2013)	" John Dies at the End is joyously heterodox in its method, an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink mélange of sci-fi, black comedy, and action, with disquieting body-horror sight gags that at times recall David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch." — Slate Posted Jan 24, 2013
30%	Broken City (2013)	" Less than 24 hours later, I recall it with all the clarity of something I half-watched on a plane with a hangover in 1996." — Slate Posted Jan 17, 2013
70%	Les Misérables (2012)	" We're all familiar with the experience of seeing movies that cram ideas and themes down our throats. Les Misérables may represent the first movie to do so while also cramming us down the throats of its actors." — Slate Posted Dec 27, 2012
88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" There's something about [Tarantino's] directorial delectation in all these acts of racial violence that left me not just physically but morally queasy." — Slate Posted Dec 25, 2012
93%	Amour (2012)	" A compassionate, rigorously unsentimental masterwork from a director who doesn't normally truck in emotions like the one named in the title." — Slate Posted Dec 21, 2012
52%	This is 40 (2012)	" As funny as a hemorrhoid." — Slate Posted Dec 14, 2012
93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" A vital, disturbing, and necessary film ..." — Slate Posted Dec 14, 2012
66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" It's hard to overstate the degree to which the 48fps format interfered with my ability to get lost in this movie's story." — Slate Posted Dec 10, 2012
38%	Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)	" I wish I could say that Bill Murray's performance as FDR was so wonderful it transcended the material, but the truth is that Murray's character never fully emerges from the fog." — Slate Posted Dec 6, 2012
82%	Rust and Bone (2012)	" Rust and Bone is a movie about letting go of shame and making way for the advent of pleasure. Let that be your guide to watching it as well." — Slate Posted Nov 30, 2012
76%	Killing Them Softly (2012)	" It's hard to deglamorize the criminal life when you can't resist showing a bullet leaving a gun barrel in stylized super-slow motion or scoring the anti-hero's first entrance to a Johnny Cash song." — Slate Posted Nov 29, 2012
63%	Hitchcock (2012)	" A pleasant but unambitious, small-scale biopic ..." — Slate Posted Nov 22, 2012
88%	Life of Pi (2012)	" The movie's energy peters out in a series of book-club conversations about divine will, the power of storytelling, and the resilience of the human spirit." — Slate Posted Nov 21, 2012
92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" It's lopsided and spotty, but it's alive in a way that suddenly makes you remember to what degree most Hollywood movies aren't." — Slate Posted Nov 18, 2012
48%	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)	" The very title Breaking Dawn, Part 2 hints at what the movie, sadly, reveals to be the case: The Twilight franchise has overstayed its welcome." — Slate Posted Nov 15, 2012
89%	Lincoln (2012)	" There are long stretches that are as quiet, contemplative, and austere as anything Spielberg has ever done." — Slate Posted Nov 9, 2012
92%	Skyfall (2012)	" Skyfall leaves you wondering whether this incarnation of the character has anywhere left to go. It's the portrait of a spy at the end of his rope by an actor who seems close to his." — Slate Posted Nov 8, 2012
68%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" Galumphing and heavy-handed, its rare flights of lyricism stranded between long stretches of outright risibility." — Slate Posted Oct 25, 2012
90%	Holy Motors (2012)	" If nothing else, you'll come out of it feeling perceptually refreshed, as if you'd just had a ride on an aesthetic and philosophical log flume." — Slate Posted Oct 21, 2012
94%	The Sessions (2012)	" This frank, funny, tender film both asks and receives more from its sex scenes than any movie I've seen in a long time." — Slate Posted Oct 18, 2012
82%	Seven Psychopaths (2012)	" All this narrative nesting and genre-skipping sounds very cerebral on the page, but in practice, Seven Psychopaths is as pleasurably kinetic as can be, full of double-crosses and gunplay and sun-kissed SoCal locations." — Slate Posted Oct 12, 2012
96%	Argo (2012)	" Argo is a rollicking yarn, easily the most cohesive and technically accomplished of Affleck's three films so far, but a part of me wishes the director hadn't cast himself in the lead role." — Slate Posted Oct 12, 2012
21%	Taken 2 (2012)	" So lazily put together that it relies on flashbacks from its predecessor for the majority of its character development." — Slate Posted Oct 5, 2012
68%	Wuthering Heights (2012)	" If you can slow down your movie metabolism enough to acclimate to its world, Arnold's naturalistic retelling grasps an elemental truth about the novel." — Slate Posted Oct 5, 2012
79%	The Deep Blue Sea (2012)	" [Weisz'] performance that transforms her from actress to movie star." — Slate Posted Oct 1, 2012

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