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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
Stevie is worth seeing for its provocative originality, and the debates it is bound to raise.
04/11/03
Top CriticWhile Stevie surely tells an intriguing story, it is more interesting as a study of documentary filmmaking.
04/10/03
A devastating portrait of a lost family in a forgotten corner of the country, utterly failed by a bankrupt social-services system.
04/10/03
A monster weighted by the same human blemishes and stains that prevented us from caring when it might have mattered.
04/10/03
[A] special documentary.
04/07/03
Top Critic[James'] greatest success here is in humanizing Stevie, a victim as well as a victimizer.
04/07/03
A psalm, a piercing, deeply absorbing document of a thousand shades of gray. What gives Stevie its engrossing complexity is, of course, its unshackled, unflinching humanity.
04/07/03
The film goes a long way, sometimes to a fault, to prove that every life is worth examining, no matter how dumb or degraded its particulars.
04/04/03
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04/04/03
Of course, James is exploiting Stevie, but the peculiar power of this film lies in James' indirect acknowledgment of it and his hope that his film has some point and value.
04/03/03
Top CriticJames makes visible the process by which a lost soul cuts himself off from emotion in order to survive, only to find that, in the bargain, he's lost the ability to open himself up to anyone who might want to throw him a line.
04/03/03
If James and his crew can spend years with these blighted souls, surely you can spend two hours with them, exploring compassion's outer limits.
03/31/03
Top CriticA fascinating film that's good but not great and that suffers significantly from being a full half hour too long.
03/31/03
A movie about a convicted sex offender that will move you to tears at the end. That may sound off-putting, and it will be for some people, but you should take a chance anyway. James miraculously maintains his responsibility as a filmmaker and as a frien
03/29/03
Stevie is gripping in its intimacy.
03/28/03
Top CriticIn this complex and soulful documentary, Steve James (Hoop Dreams) explores his caring relationship with a troubled young man and in the process reveals that no one can save another person despite good intentions.
03/28/03
At over two hours, the story of Stevie does run a little long, but not for lack of content.
03/28/03
One might conclude that the enormous value of a film like Stevie lies in its ability to take us places we'd probably never go otherwise -- not merely as guilty liberals, but as thinking individuals who want to learn something about the world we inhabit.
03/28/03
Top CriticOverly long and uncomfortably intrusive, but never less than compelling.
03/28/03
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