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  • Spoilers

    Slate! I love you but why can't you give spoiler alerts??? Today's article about Lars von Trier could have included one (not a fan of that director but still), and Dana Stevens often includes spoilers in her movie reviews, which, considering their purpose, are mostly read by people who have not yet seen the movie. A fear of spoilers is the reason ...
    Posted to Culturebox by TastySpatula on October 22, 2009

  • To Ms. Stevens

    Simply put, you are the most inept and inane movie reviewer I have ever read. Why you were ever hired by Slate to write for them is beyond my comprehension. After the horror of experiencing your written work, I thought I would give you a chance by listening to you on the Cultural Gabfest, only to realize that you are even more ridiculous when ...
    Posted to Movies by Ezrateach on July 5, 2009

  • Dana Stevens Obtuse Take on this Movie

    Apparently Ms.Stevens doesn't understand the difference between a value judgment and an objective criticism. She finds this movie ''disappointing''. Yet she says, ''The movie's sense of temporal dislocation is profound and pervasive and very skillfully done...'' Then she says, in the most self contradictory statement she could ever have written, ...
    Posted to Movies by JonRaymond on October 26, 2008

  • 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

  • Surprise! It's...wait, what surprise?

    Viejo Vizcacha: I find it surprising that the reviewer assumes that EVERYBODY in the US is aware of what is happening in the world and the crimes that are committed by the US government in the name of its citizens. He says: ''There's something depressing about the idea that events such as the abduction and murder of an American journalist (A ...
    Posted to Movies by haulinsacs on October 21, 2007

  • An A- for Slate's Educational Experiment

    Hi, Slate, I think it's admirable that you promote education by using high school interns, even to review movies. How else to explain Dana Stevens' weak attempt at prose, her review of 'Rise of the Silver Surfer,' but to assume it was written during her study hall? I haven't even seen the movie; I just object to such sorry writing, although, as ...
    Posted to Movies by brandon102 on June 17, 2007