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05/02/03
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Stevie (2003)
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Reviews Counted:74
Fresh:67
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: Poignant documentary that's hard to forget.
Theatrical Release:Mar 28, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: "This is the hardest film I've ever made. But, I also think it's the most honest in its attempt to portray the complexity of family relationships." - Director Steve James Steve James, Academy... [More]
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Reviews for Stevie
A voyeuristic look at one American and his broken family
05/01/03
A haunting documentary/ personal essay that provokes violently mixed feelings toward both subject and filmmaker.
05/01/03
Top CriticA fascinating case study...the leisurely, almost rambling approach that James has adopted eventually pays dividends.
05/01/03
Filmmaker James -- whose wife is a social worker -- should be applauded for his courage and commitment.
04/24/03
...one of the most overwhelmingly compassionate, humane and transcendent experiences I've ever had in a movie theater.
04/22/03
["Stevie"] should be watched by any aspiring documentary filmmakers as a standard of excellence.
04/22/03
Possibly looking for a personal catharsis, James gets a whole lot of heartbreak, yet still presents an unblinking portrait of a complex personality.
04/19/03
It's a hard ride, and it brings you to places you wish you'd never consented to go, but it's worthwhile.
04/18/03
Some viewers will feel moved to tears of compassion, and others will point to Stevie Fielding as an argument for more barbed wire on the prison walls. But there's no denying this is an important film.
04/18/03
The road of Stevie is a rough ride, and at 145 minutes, it's a long one. But in an age of so-called reality shows that are no more than hyped entertainment, it is a rewarding if distressing look at flawed but genuine human beings.
04/18/03
Top CriticStevie is a fascinating, irritating movie, with a portrait of a hopelessly troubled young man at its center.
04/18/03
Top CriticBring Kleenex.
04/17/03
Top CriticThe director allows both lead characters to be seen as failures, remarkable for the fact that he himself is one of them.
04/15/03
For all Stevie implies about the guilt, contradictions and confused motivations of its filmmaker, at bottom it is a deeply humane and touching experience.
04/11/03
Top CriticWhile ostensibly about how the System failed Stevie, this documentary is, of course, really about James who frets, ad nauseam, about his own motives in imposing himself on Stevie and his dysfunctional family.
04/11/03
Top CriticA remarkable and profoundly sad experience.
04/11/03
Despite good reviews at this year's Sundance Film Festival, this is the kind of squishy lost cause that gives liberal guilt a bad name.
04/11/03
Stevie is one of the saddest and most appalling documentaries extant, particularly for what it says about American society in general.
04/11/03
James probes into some terrifyingly difficult places in an attempt to discover Stevie's soul as well as his own.
04/11/03
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