Dana Stevens

Sep 12, 2023 | metacritic.com | Alexander Mackendrick |David Sterritt |Dana Stevens |Kim Morgan

Universally admired movie captures the energy of Manhattan and explores the power of celebrity and the dark side of the power of the press. Electrifying performances from Lancaster as a sinister newspaper columnist who abuses his vast power, and Tony Curtis as a sleazy, bottom-feeder PR flack. Barbara Nichols is mind-blowing as the voluptuous cigarette girl with the heart of gold forced to compromise herself to put her son through military school.

May 25, 2023 | metacritic.com | Nicole Holofcener |Odie Henderson |Dana Stevens |Josh Larsen

“You Hurt My Feelings” is an inspired title. It effectively summarizes all the action that takes place in the course of this film, while simultaneously capturing what’s at stake here. Beth (Julia Louis-Dreyfus – “Veep,” “Seinfeld”) has been laboring to write a novel, a follow-up to her modestly well-received memoir. Her husband Don (Tobias Menzies – Prince Philip in “The Crown”) has read twenty drafts of the novel, offering vague encouragement following each reading.