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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
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) 78% 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) 88% 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) 86% 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) 95% 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) 92% 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) 48% 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) 90% 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 A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% EDIT “Everything about A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is stilted and odd, but I found that more endearing than off-putting.” – TIME Magazine Sep 24, 2025 Full Review HIM (2025) 30% EDIT “It’s the kind of movie that leaves you feeling indifferent rather than chilled to the bone, clobbered into numbness with good intentions.” – TIME Magazine Sep 24, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “One Battle After Another is of the moment without hammering away at us with its ideas; its seriousness is the unserious kind, which makes it even more potent, in a Dr. Strangelove sort of way. ” – TIME Magazine Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) 91% EDIT “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale transports you to a time and place that seems so much more glamorous than our own, and to see it all splashed out on the big screen is almost overwhelming. It’s a genteel fantasy worth leaving the couch for.” – TIME Magazine Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 65% EDIT “Spinal Tap II is more touching than it is laugh-out-loud funny.” – TIME Magazine Sep 15, 2025 Full Review
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