Dana Stevens

A.O. Scott, chief film critic of The New York Times, and Dana Stevens, Slate's film critic and co-host of Slate's "Culture Gabfest," compare notes on this year's Oscar nominations (just released this morning), and discuss recent changes in the requirements for best documentary.

Slate's film critic and co-host of Slate's Culture Grabfest, Dana Stevens, offers her take on movies in theaters over the holidays. What's your recommendation? 

Slate's film critic and co-host of Slate's Culture Gabfest, Dana Stevens, shares what movies she's looking forward to this fall.

Rob Neyer, national baseball editor for Baseball Nation and former employee of baseball statistics legend Bill James, discusses sabermetrics and how it did or did not change baseball. Dana Stevens, Slate's film critic and co-host of Slate's Culture Gabfest, joins him to discuss "Moneyball." 

A lethal pandemic that spreads like wildfire: could it actually happen? Dana Stevens, Slate's film critic and co-host of Slate's Culture Gabfest and Dr. Larry Madoff, Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, director of the Division of Epidemiology and Immunization at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) and editor of ProMED, an Internet-based emerging disease surveillance system, discusses what "Contagion" gets right and wrong. 

Dana Stevens, Slate film critic and co-host of the Culture Gabfest, previews films being released during the summer season.

Dana Stevens, Slate film critic and co-host of the Culture Gabfest, previews movies being released during the summer season.

What movies are you looking forward to this summer?

What's more important in a documentary: great filmmaking or great cause? Dana Stevens, Slate's film critic and co-host of the podcast Culture Gabfest, and Matt Zoller Seitz, T.V. and film critic for Salon, discuss this year's Oscar nominated documentaries and just what a documentary should be anyway.

A.O. Scott, chief film critic for the New York Times, and Dana Stevens, film critic and co-host of Culture Gabfest  for Slate.com, review today's Oscar nominations.

Listeners: Who got snubbed? What movie, actor, or director should have gotten nominated but didn't. Call in or comment here!

We kick off Critics Week with a look at music on the big screen in 2010. Slate.com film critic Dana Stevens tells us about this year's music-oriented movies and documentaries, plus its notable soundtracks.

Dana Stevens, film critic for Slate.com and co-host of their Culture Gabfest, discusses the film "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," the sequel to the "greed is good" original. Also, Joe Nocera, New York Times business columnist and author of their Executive Suite blog, offers his take on "Wall Street," the movie vs. Wall Street, the reality.

Dana Stevens, film critic for Slate and co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast, discusses the HBO miniseries "Boardwalk Empire" about Prohibition-Era Atlantic City, and Daniel Okrent, writer, editor, inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball, former public editor at The New York Times and the author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, offers his insight into the era and history of Prohibition.

Dana Stevens, film critic for Slate.com, discusses "The Social Network," the controversial new film about the founding of Facebook by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg; and Baratunde Thurston, comedian and digital director of The Onion, offers his insight into the world of Harvard and social media.

The Oscars are on Sunday. Following the week-long Brian Lehrer Show Oscar documentary series, Dana Stevens, film critic for Slate.com, and Manohla Dargis, film critic for The New York Times, preview the main event.

It's the season for smart movies. But why do the studios pack serious movies into the last weeks of the year? New York Times business columnist and media reporter David Carr and Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens, weigh in on this year's smart movie season and discuss some ...

New York Press film critic Armond White and film critic for Slate.com Dana Stevens rate their fall film picks.

Speaking of the brand obsessed...anyone see the Sex and the City movie? Slate film critic Dana Stevens (who has) joins Rob Walker (who hasn't) to talk about the SATC effect on consumer culture. But fear not: this is a spoiler-free zone.

Dana Stevens, film critic for Slate, talks about whether sentimentality is hip in films.

Film critics Dana Stevens of Slate and Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman discuss the quintessential New York films, the classics, the recent classics, and the forgettable ones. What's your all-time favorite New York movie?

Film critics Dana Stevens of Slate and Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman join us each week in October to talk about films. This week: movies set in New York, from Michael Clayton to American Gangster. What's your all-time favorite New York movie?