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  • A quibble

    In Bull Durham, Kevin Costner's character may be a loser, but he isn't a dim bulb. He's as smart as Susan Sarandon's character (and their mutual recognition of the other's intelligence makes up much of the erotic charge between them), and not just because of his famous Susan-Sontag-Is-Overrated speech. What makes him poignant is that he's a smart ...
    Posted to Movies by cultwriter on August 1, 2008

  • Re: Help Dana Stevens out - let her know third person is no

    ''...he's a translation..'' I'm sure you meant ''here's''. Even Dana's supporters can't write well. Now, I'm not a professional critic, and I don't want tell anyone how to do their job, but I have to agree with the masses in calling this review awful. Maybe hackneyed is more accurate. I get the point - for everybody who is pooh-poohing this ...
    Posted to Movies by mizkc on May 27, 2008

  • Mostly a summary, less a review

    I am so glad that I saw the film before reading this ''review'', in which Dana Stevens summarizes about 85% of the plot of the film. Many reviewers seem to think they should be doing a book report for 10th grade English, complete with a summary. The purpose of a film review is to tell the readers just enough about the film for them to choose ...
    Posted to Movies by HarryLim3 on May 2, 2008

  • Dana, PFFFFTTTTTTTTT

    Dana, you have secured your status as an out-of-touch feminist by classifying SJP as ''a smart, kind, beautiful young woman.'' SJP is 43 = OLD Kind?? haha Beautiful?!?!?!? haha maybe you are just being too liberal with your generalizations!! or, maybe you are using your ''review'' column to promote your ridiculous ideology!!! either ...
    Posted to Movies by stoneywageslave on April 11, 2008

  • Mad about TMD

    When our college-age daughter told us about Minghella's death and read from an article listing his most notable movies (the usual titles), my wife said, ''Well? Well?'' For her, he made Truly, Madly, Deeply and some other yeah-who-cares movies, too. I bought it for her years ago, and I always marvel that, no matter how many times she has viewed ...
    Posted to Movies by MJD on March 22, 2008

  • Re: It's a matter of education, options and choices

    Thank you, TBucket05. I find the whole debate so interesting. I can't stop reading.
    Posted to Movies by Cyndi Gross on January 16, 2008

  • It's a matter of education, options and choices

    Though I agree that this movie has a “Home Birth” focus, I think that what Ricki Lake is really trying to convey is that women are not educated on the choices and options available. Birth in the United States has become an emergent medical complication. We intervene as a routine, as if all of those interventions are safer and better than Mother ...
    Posted to Movies by Cyndi Gross on January 16, 2008

  • Re: "Dana Stevens" reviews are always all about ...

    Does Slate have any reviewers who know how to enhance a viewer's appreciation of a film? That's an honest question from a newcomer. It's deeply lazy to offer readers so little insight mixed in with so many uninformative gripes: ''choose one complaint from column A and two complaints from column B''. It's fine to object to something in particular ...
    Posted to Movies by stevengel on November 10, 2007

  • Coen Brothers Don't Suck

    Coen brothers are a ridiculously dynamic duo. Dana seems to dismiss masterpieces like Fargo and Lebowski as nothing more than a collector's piece. I'm not one for slow/drama/violence/deepness, but their range (barton fink?) also speaks for itself. The Dude does not approve, and it is obvious that Dana just doesn't get it! ...
    Posted to Movies by stoneywageslave on November 9, 2007

  • Why Dana Stevens' reviews always leave me "cold"

    Dana says that Coen Brothers movies leave her ''cold'' because ''The brothers make movies that can be good, even very good, without seeming essential.'' What Dana refuses to tell you is exactly what ''essential'' means. A good question might be whether she even knows what ''essential''. I mean, she wrote it and all so you would that that she ...
    Posted to Movies by robot-rock on November 8, 2007
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