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Dana Stevens

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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “Wake Up Dead Man marks not just a return to form but an expansion of the series’ potential. ” – Slate Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “Linus Sandgren’s lambent cinematography captures the sumptuous melancholy of Jay’s gilded-cage life, and Nicholas Britell’s lush symphonic score adds a sometimes ironic note of classic-Hollywood glamour.” – Slate Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “Zhao captures the book’s lyrical naturalism and attention to sensory detail in scenes involving the couple’s courtship and time spent playing with their young children. ” – Slate Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “Any sense of disappointment that Wicked: For Good doesn’t quite live up to the first movie pops like a big pink bubble the moment Erivo and Grande unite one last time to sing the showstopping duet “For Good.” ” – Slate Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “Though it’s only two hours and 13 minutes long, Sentimental Value packs a whole novel’s worth of emotional texture and telling visual detail into that run time.” – Slate Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 91% EDIT “Kaplow’s script neatly avoids both claustrophobia and staginess, dividing the story into three discrete acts. ” – Slate Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% EDIT “Nouvelle Vague darts forward at the effervescent pace of the cultural youth movement it chronicles.” – Slate Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “By straining in its closing moments toward philosophical grandeur, the film instead does a disservice to both its characters and its audience.” – Slate Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Del Toro has made a version of the story that’s indelible, but not definitive. ” – Slate Oct 17, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “A House of Dynamite’s brisk 112-minute run time barrels toward what looks like an inevitably catastrophic conclusion, yet the film keeps surprising you right up to the end.” – Slate Oct 14, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “The script gives Byrne too few moments to modulate the intensity of her performance, or to communicate who Linda is in any register other than blind panic as she careens from one crisis to the next.” – Slate Oct 9, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% EDIT “Safdie’s camera and the film’s sympathies remain at arm’s length, obscuring what’s going on inside Mark’s gigantic cranium even more effectively than his dinner-plate-sized hands. ” – Slate Sep 29, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “It's a brainy meditation on our dystopian present that's also a whacked-out roller coaster ride.” – Slate Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 65% EDIT “Though it never reaches the heights of the original—if that film went to 11, this one tops out at around 7.5—Spinal Tap II also never feels like a soulless cash grab or a betrayal of the first movie’s impish comic spirit. ” – Slate Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “Highest 2 Lowest may not represent Lee's work at its finest, but it's worth seeing on the big screen for its ambitious visuals and for its canny casting—not only of Washington and Rocky, but of Jeffrey Wright, who quietly steals every scene he's in.” – Slate Aug 16, 2025 Full Review Freakier Friday (2025) 73% EDIT “It’s a good movie for a late-summer legacy sequel, not a candidate for the all-time comedy pantheon.” – Slate Aug 12, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% EDIT “The script never loses a vague, hand-waving quality that leaves its central characters as indistinctly drawn as the moral conflict they ultimately face.” – Slate Jul 25, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “In its modest way, this kind-spirited two-hour-long romp works as a corrective to the increasingly bloated and self-serious comic-book movie as we’ve come to know it.” – Slate Jul 14, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% EDIT “Acting opposite such powerhouses as Fiennes and the ever-excellent Comer, Williams delivers a vivid performance.” – Slate Jun 23, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% EDIT “There’s plenty to enjoy about Materialists, from the sparkling indie soundtrack (Cat Power! Harry Nilsson! John Prine!) to the flattering rose-hued glow of Shabier Kirchner’s cinematography, to Lucy’s enviable working-girl wardrobe. ” – Slate Jun 13, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% EDIT “For all its exquisite boxes-within-boxes compositions and cleverly designed sets, this whole movie unfolded for me as if behind a thick pane of emotion-proof glass.” – Slate May 29, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% EDIT “Final Reckoning is a noble exemplar of a dying breed: the big, dumb, fun action blockbuster with a bona fide movie star at its center, putting it all on the line—and hanging on for dear life—just to keep us at the edge of our theater seats.” – Slate May 22, 2025 Full Review Friendship (2024) 88% EDIT “It may well be that the anarchic comedic talent of Tim Robinson, and his chemistry with the reliably appealing Rudd, is enough to sell this bold if uneven experiment in squirm-inducing metacomedy. ” – Slate May 12, 2025 Full Review Another Simple Favor (2025) 58% EDIT “Another Simple Favor starts to leave a genuinely sour taste. ” – Slate May 1, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% EDIT “It’s both a wildly ambitious meditation on American history and a rip-roaring good time. ” – Slate Apr 21, 2025 Full Review
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