Dana Stevens

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Dana Stevens

Midway through Sinners comes a scene on the dance floor of a juke joint newly opened by twin gangsters-turned-entrepreneurs Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan). We’re somewhere on the outskirts of Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1932, and onstage is a Delta blues band featuring the twins’ younger cousin Sammie (the remarkable newcomer Miles Caton) on guitar.

4 weeks ago | slate.com | Dana Stevens |Julia Turner |Stephen Metcalf

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1 month ago | slate.com | Dana Stevens

The word “visceral” will almost certainly be used in nearly every review of Warfare, director Alex Garland’s follow-up to last year’s similarly assaultive political thriller Civil War. Taken both in the metaphorical sense of “emotionally gutting” and the literal one of, well, having to do with guts, “visceral” is a tough adjective to avoid in describing this forensic reconstruction of a real-life battle that took place in 2006 in the Iraq city of Ramadi.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Dana Stevens

1 hour agoWhether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about. Critic’s Pick It’s not entertaining, and that’s a compliment. Written and directed by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, this atypical war movie follows a platoon of Navy SEALs during a calamitous …

1 month ago | slate.com | Sam Adams |Dana Stevens |Stephen Metcalf

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