Dana Stevens

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Dana Stevens

The Amazon Prime Video rom-com You’re Cordially Invited is written and directed by Nicholas Stoller, who made some of the more memorable comedies of the 2000s and 2010s, including Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the Neighbors movies. His new film is a would-be throwback to that era in other ways as well.

Nov 25, 2024 | nytimes.com | Dana Stevens

IN A TENSE moment midway through Edward Berger's recent movie " Conclave," a pulpy thriller about the process of selecting a new pope, Isabella Rossellini, playing a nun named Sister Agnes, enters a room full of cardinals from around the world. A series of uncovered secrets and shifting alliances have turned this initially serene council into a rat's nest of backstabbing, grandstanding, explaining, interrupting men.

Oct 17, 2024 | yahoo.com | Dana Stevens

Anora, the new movie from the sui generis writer-director Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project), seems likely to be the one that catapults him from indie critical darling to that much rarer thing: a filmmaker whose work is both widely praised by festival-going cinephiles and widely watched by audiences who just want to have a good time. It’s a crowd-pleaser, funny and sexy and raucous, while also being startlingly wise and tender.

Sep 18, 2024 | yahoo.com | Dana Stevens

When I read back in the spring that Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance was the most divisive movie at Cannes—it got the festival’s longest standing ovation (11 minutes) and the award for best screenplay, while also occasioning multiple midscreening walkouts—I thought I knew which side of the divide I would fall on. An over-the-top body-horror thriller about an injectable drug that allows a fading star to swap bodies with a younger, hotter woman who is almost but not quite her?

Jun 28, 2024 | flipboard.com | Dana Stevens

Lily Gladstone plays an outwardly tough but inwardly vulnerable Native woman who just wants to learn what happened to her sister.