Email Author Stephanie Zacharek

2013 Stories by Stephanie Zacharek

• World War Z: When Zombies Go Global, All You Need Is Brad Pitt

  published June 20, 2013

  Destruction is scary, but not half as scary as the act of rebuilding, the moment of looking at the random, jagged pieces you've got left and... More >>

• There's Greatness In Man Of Steel, Even When It Isn't Very Good

  published June 13, 2013

  Zack Snyder's Man of Steel is a movie event with an actual movie inside, crying to get out. Despite its preposterous... More >>

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  Man of Steel: Making Sense of All That Christ and Death Stuff

  published June 13, 2013

  Sometimes, there’s just too damn much to say about a movie than can fit into any one review. (Even More >>

• A Protest, A Prayer: The Story of Pussy Riot Comes to HBO

  published June 6, 2013

  Anyone trying to run a civilized country should know that throwing musicians in jail for making music is always a bad idea. That didn't stop... More >>

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  The Internship Is Worse Than Fetching Coffee

  published June 6, 2013

  Eager young people can't find jobs; qualified older people can't find jobs. There's nothing funny about that, which is exactly why someone... More >>

• Before Midnight: The Aftermath of a Sunrise and Sunset.

  published May 30, 2013

  Ask people about their favorite movies, and the same titles come up regularly — Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, Annie... More >>

• The Hopefulness of Frances Ha Is Constant.

  published May 23, 2013

  New York is a cruel and beautiful place, just as 27 is a cruel and beautiful age. In Frances Ha, Greta Gerwig plays a woman who's... More >>

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  Cannes: Heli Is Family Drama Set Against Mexico’s Drug Wars

  published May 23, 2013

  One of the most exciting things about attending the Cannes Film Festival is being among the first people to see the films the world will be... More >>

• Cannes Diary: What Are the Women in their Dresses Hoping for?

  published May 23, 2013

  Nearly everyone I know who has seen the official poster for the 66th Cannes Film Festival — a bird’s-eye view of a kiss... More >>

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  Cannes: Not Even the Gifted Emma Watson Can Raise The Bling Ring

  published May 23, 2013

  The biggest puzzlement of these early days of the festival comes from Sofia Coppola, one of my favorite working directors. Until now, I have... More >>

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  Cannes: Young & Beautiful Is a Portrait of a 17-Year-Old French Call Girl

  published May 23, 2013

  François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful, a portrait of a 17-year-old French call girl, is something else again. This is... More >>

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  Cannes: The Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis

  published May 23, 2013

  I. First, Something About the Badges (Then We’ll Get to the Coens) Someday I’m going to write a song and call it... More >>

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  Cannes: Steven Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra is a Delightful Little Curio

  published May 23, 2013

  Ladies and gentlemen—anyone, really, who cares about his or her mug—step right up. According to a bit of advice proffered in one of... More >>

• Cannes: Refn’s Again with Ryan Gosling, but Only God Forgives Isn’t in the Same League as Drive

  published May 23, 2013

  Expectations here in Cannes were high—or at least semi-high—for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, in... More >>

• The Great Gatsby

  published May 9, 2013

  There's a scene in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby in which Leonardo DiCaprio's hyperrich, super-awkward Jay Gatsby takes it upon... More >>

• Rashomom

  published May 9, 2013

  Jean-Luc Godard said, "All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun." But really, all you need is a girl, preferably a charismatic one with a... More >>

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  R.I.P., Ray Harryhausen, Master of the Handmade Fantasy

  published May 9, 2013

  In the course of reviewing movies in the early 2000s, just as computer-generated special effects were becoming radically sophisticated and were... More >>

• Iron Man 3: Iron Deficiency

  published May 2, 2013

  Where has Robert Downey Jr. gone? There's no doubt he's the star of Iron Man 3; he sprints through the picture like a neurotic... More >>

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  What Is a Movie Critic's Job in the Summer of Comic Books? A Discussion

  published May 2, 2013

  Stephanie Zacharek is the new chief film... More >>

• To the Wonder: Spinning in Place

  published April 18, 2013

  I have rarely enjoyed watching Terrence Malick's movies. But I really wouldn't want to be him. When you're a reclusive perfectionist who... More >>

• Admission

  published March 21, 2013

  An actress in her thirties — a woman, that is, still playing characters of babymaking age — may have it even tougher than actresses... More >>

• Kiss Kiss Ho Hum

  published February 28, 2013

  There's a reason, beyond basic Judd Apatow oversaturation, that hardly anyone went to see his mewl of middle-aged despair This Is 40. A... More >>

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  21 & Over Just Dares You to Get Offended

  published February 28, 2013

  Guy humor is always with us, kind of like the poor. For as long as cavemen have been etching fart jokes into the walls of caves, women have been... More >>

• Hansel & Gretel Too Much Candy

  published January 31, 2013

  Steven Spielberg and his jaunty little apologue about the 16th President of the United States aside, it's no longer enough in movies for a... More >>