Email Author Stephanie Zacharek

2013 Stories by Stephanie Zacharek

• In World War Z, All That Matters Is Brad Pitt

  published June 20, 2013

  In World War Z, All That Matters Is Brad Pitt More >>

• Man of Steel Is for Real

  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 >>

• Before Midnight's Lovers Face the Darkness

  published June 6, 2013

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

• In Frances Ha, Greta Gerwig Displays Her Colors

  published May 30, 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 >>

• Something in the Air an Ode to Youth's Universal Qualities

  published May 30, 2013

  Olivier Assayas' gorgeous, freewheeling, semiautobiographical Something in the Air is an ode to both youth's universal qualities and the... 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 "Ballad of the... More >>

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  Cannes: In Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian), Benicio Del Toro Acts Again!

  published May 23, 2013

  In Arnaud Desplechin's English-language Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian), Benicio Del Toro—freed at last from... More >>

• 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 >>

• Great Gatsby With DiCaprio and Maguire: Great but Not Always Good

  published May 9, 2013

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

• Iron Man 3: Shtick and Explosions for the Great Robert Downey Jr.

  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 >>

• Terrence Malick's To the Wonder is Gorgeous, Ridiculous

  published May 2, 2013

  To the Wonder, Terrence Malick's second movie in two years, is ridiculous, pretentious as hell, and in places laugh-out-loud funny.... More >>

• "I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies" Book Review

  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 movie... More >>

• Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters Review: Fear a Steady Diet of Movies Like This

  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 an... More >>