A Place in the Sun 1951

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Hopelessly inadequate as a reading of Dreiser's great novel, and as usual Stevens seems too preoccupied with the story's monumentality to have much curiosity about its characters. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: A good example of the kind of soporific nonsense that won rave reviews and armloads of Academy Awards back in the 50s, while the finest work of Ford, Hawks, and Hitchcock was being ignored. Read more

Tom Milne, Time Out: Typically slow and stately in the later Stevens manner. Read more