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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
Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% 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) 86% 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) 62% 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 Blue Moon (2025) 89% EDIT “Blue Moon is both a modest movie and a dazzling, generous work.” – TIME Magazine Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT “White is quietly effective as Bruce, having perfected the singer’s trademark honeycomb rasp.” – TIME Magazine Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “Hedda seems more focused on its own novelty than on the emotional bones of the story.” – TIME Magazine Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Good Fortune (2025) 78% EDIT “Good Fortune is a charming debut.” – TIME Magazine Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “Roofman is partly a lark: it’s fun to watch a clever, likable guy like Tatum’s Manchester beat the system. ” – TIME Magazine Oct 15, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is hardly full-on punishment, and in places it’s bitterly funny. But in the end, it’s an enormous relief to walk away from Linda’s problems. Our own don’t seem so bad in comparison.” – TIME Magazine Oct 10, 2025 Full Review
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