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Stephanie Zacharek

Tomatometer-approved critic
Favorites:

10 Favorites (Always Subject to Change): The Wild Bunch, Irma Vep, The Right Stuff, Blowout, Top Hat, The Godfather Part II, A Hard Day's Night, Breathless, Before Sunrise, L'Atalante

Location:

Brooklyn, NY, US

Official Website:

http://villagevoice.com/movies

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Lorne (2026) 67% EDIT “By the end of Lorne, Neville makes us feel we know just enough. Any more would be overkill.” – TIME Magazine Apr 17, 2026 Full Review Mother Mary (2026) 72% EDIT “It works hard to impress us with its slinky weirdness, which isn’t the same as simply being weird. Sometimes a dress is just a dress, no matter how hard a filmmaker tries to write it into being.” – TIME Magazine Apr 16, 2026 Full Review You, Me & Tuscany (2026) 65% EDIT “Bailey is a sunny, likable presence, with Bambi eyelashes out to there; you can’t help wanting the best for her character.” – TIME Magazine Apr 13, 2026 Full Review Outcome (2026) 28% EDIT “As a director, Hill has almost zero control over the movie's tone.” – TIME Magazine Apr 13, 2026 Full Review The Christophers (2025) 97% EDIT “The Christophers is a wily little movie. It’s not trying to be about anything, which means it somehow ends up being about lots of things.” – TIME Magazine Apr 13, 2026 Full Review The Drama (2026) 78% EDIT “It’s hard to have any idea what The Drama is trying to say or do, beyond tease its audience with its lack of specificity.” – TIME Magazine Apr 2, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% EDIT “This is the most ambitious picture, in terms of structure and spectacle, that the filmmaking duo of Lord and Miller have ever made, and sometimes it reels out of their grasp.” – TIME Magazine Mar 27, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 58% EDIT “It’s an intellectual joyride without the joy.” – TIME Magazine Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Sense and Sensibility (1995) 97% EDIT “As wonderful as Thompson is, Alan Rickman's Brandon is the emotional core of Sense and Sensibility. His performance is astonishing -- it's beautifully controlled but unabashedly romantic.” – Boston Phoenix Feb 25, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 97% EDIT “This newfound footage, painstakingly restored, forms the fabric of EPiC, which, despite Luhrmann’s penchant for hurtling over the top—or maybe even because of it—manages to feel profoundly intimate. ” – TIME Magazine Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% EDIT “Pillion is a movie about self-discovery; it's also very funny.” – TIME Magazine Feb 6, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “The Bone Temple is part satisfying triumph, part missed opportunity, and its pluses and minuses bump against one another in jangly discord.” – TIME Magazine Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 77% EDIT “You could argue that Song Sung Blue hits every beat predictably. But isn’t that what you want sometimes?” – TIME Magazine Dec 30, 2025 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 86% EDIT “The Testament of Ann Lee is unimaginable with any other actress—but then again, it’s unimaginable, period, a movie that takes big chances in a culture that, most days, seems allergic to them.” – TIME Magazine Dec 30, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “The movie’s increasingly convoluted plot only detracts from the story’s crushing emotional potential. ” – TIME Magazine Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 87% EDIT “The performances Arnett and Dern give here have a quiet, prickly grace” – TIME Magazine Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “Cameron’s vision is no longer the future, but a nostalgia trip, a very expensive form of deja vu. Movie magic can take many forms, but rarely is it as calculated as this, confusing awe with stupor.” – TIME Magazine Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “The plot of Wake Up Dead Man is fatally cluttered, and the story winds up in a blur of exposition that’s not particularly clever.” – TIME Magazine Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 87% EDIT “Zhao doesn’t know how to take a less-is-more approach.” – TIME Magazine Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “[Timothée Chalamet's performance is] as flat as a ping-pong ball is round, and just as hollow, an empty sound bouncing nowhere and everywhere in the entropic movie around it.” – TIME Magazine Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 94% EDIT “Train Dreams is stunning to look at, the kind of film where each blade of grass, each jagged tree branch, each mini ripple of a rushing river, seems to sing out as an individual. ” – TIME Magazine Nov 23, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “Life is too short for leaden fanfiction liked Wicked: For Good, an extravagant picture that’s not nearly as imaginative as it thinks it is.” – TIME Magazine Nov 23, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 61% EDIT “The Running Man is just a slog. ” – TIME Magazine Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 91% EDIT “Peter Hujar’s Day captures that elusive feeling of the past catching up with the present, in a city alive with whispering ghosts.” – TIME Magazine Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 49% EDIT “It’s all vaguely cartoony, perhaps as a way of signaling that we’re not supposed to take it all that seriously—but you also never feel that anything is really at stake. ” – TIME Magazine Nov 4, 2025 Full Review
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