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DANA STEVENS Movie Reviews

239 reviews, averaging 59.0% positive
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1. 05/24/13 Outstanding "...a decade-spanning triptych of poetic meditations on youth, young adulthood, and middle age... I hope it's not the last we ever hear from these two..."
2. 05/17/13 Good (Not Great) "...has the earnest, wonky charm of a homemade valentine.... Baumbach's a director whose work could use an infusion of spontaneity and joy."
3. 05/16/13 Good "...the action scenes move along at a reasonable clip... Quinto and Pine's scenes together crackle with alternating currents of affection and resentment..."
4. 05/10/13 Outstanding "...a formally fascinating work of art, a compassionate portrait of a complex, flawed, and ultimately unknowable woman... one of the best movies I've seen this year."
5. 05/09/13 Good "...a gargantuan hunk of over-art-directed kitsch, but it makes for a grandiose, colorful, pleasure-drenched night at the movies."
6. 05/02/13 Very Good "...a hard-to-watch, hard-to-look-away-from movie.... it's Michael Shannon who lifts it above the run of sociopath character portraits."
7. 05/02/13 Good "Is it a ticket worth buying? That depends on how you prefer your snappy dialogue/stuff exploding ratio... Stick around till the end of the credits..."
8. 04/26/13 Fair "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."
9. 04/25/13 Moderate "...long, loud... a deeply cynical film -- and yet, at the same time, a weirdly playful one, with a manic, reckless energy and vulgar humor that it's hard not to respond to."
10. 04/11/13 Poor "...boring, unintentionally comical.... all the splendidly illuminated wheat-twirling in the world can't anchor this substanceless love story in a recognizable human reality..."
11. 04/11/13 Good (Not Great) "...smoothly paced, handsome, easily digestible.... tiptoes so reverently around its subject it leaves no room for accidents at all."
12. 04/05/13 Good "...robustly carried out its mandate of turning my stomach... this polished, clever remake remains true to the spirit of the original..."
13. 03/28/13 Good "Cianfrance is capable of coaxing tremendous moments from actors... as this over-laden but never boring movie shows, he's willing to operate from a place of risk."
14. 03/22/13 Good (Not Great) "I found myself curiously willing to overlook the movie's weaknesses, or even to reinterpret them as strengths.... it's mildly snarky, but resolutely uncynical."
15. 03/20/13 Weak "...intentionally rough, imperfect... 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."
16. 03/15/13 Very Good "...the movie's broad satire bites deep, largely thanks to the work of Aniello Arena, the magnetic 44-year-old actor who plays the yearning, deluded Luciano."
17. 03/15/13 Good "...packs an impressive amount of personal and political history into a wispy 90 minutes of screen time.... creates a lingering mood of lyrical melancholy..."
18. 03/14/13 Fair "...under-ambitious... it would be impossible to call this a successful comedy. All the same, it did make me laugh -- sporadically, yes, but sometimes loudly..."
19. 03/08/13 Outstanding "...the performances of both Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan -- who shared the Best Actress award at Cannes -- are impeccable..."
20. 03/07/13 Weak "A visually over-crammed, emotionally empty mega-spectacle... the character at its center never emerges into relief."

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