Email Author Stephanie Zacharek
2013 Stories by Stephanie Zacharek
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In A Hijacking, the Pirate Life Is Tense
published June 19, 2013
Until 2005 or so, no one thought much about modern piracy of the high-seas variety. But then Somali pirates began attacking merchant ships... More >>
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The Bling Ring Is Gorgeous, If Sometimes Absent
published June 12, 2013
Delicacy of touch isn't a particularly valued commodity among American filmmakers. We like pioneer swagger in our directors; particularly in... More >>
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World War Z Shows Off Some Horrifically Effective Filmmaking
published June 12, 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 >>
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Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer Proves Punk Lives
published June 5, 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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More Than Honey is a Delightful Journey into the Shrinking World of Bees
published June 5, 2013
Let's forget, for a moment, that Albert Einstein said that if bees were to disappear from the Earth, humankind would follow four years later.... More >>
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The Internship is Worse Than Fetching Coffee
published June 5, 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 >>
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In Man of Steel, There's Greatness in the Superman Origin Story
published June 5, 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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For Fans of its Predecessors, Proceed with Armor for Before Midnight
published May 22, 2013
Ask people about their favorite movies and the same titles come up regularly—Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, Annie Hall,... More >>
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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks Can't Get a Fix on Its Thorny Subject Matter
published May 22, 2013
There's a thing that sometimes happens to copy editors, the workhorses who do the final grammar cleanup, general fine-tuning, and, sometimes,... More >>
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Cannes: In Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian), Benicio Del Toro Acts Again!
published May 22, 2013
In Arnaud Desplechin's English-language Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian), Benicio Del Toro—freed at last from... More >>
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Cannes: The Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis
published May 22, 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: Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra is a Delightful Little Curio
published May 22, 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 >>
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Cannes: Refn's Again with Ryan Gosling, but Only God Forgives Isn't in the Same League as Drive
published May 22, 2013
Expectations here in Cannes were high—or at least semi-high—for Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, in which... More >>
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Cannes: Marion Cotillard Shines in James Gray's The Immigrant
published May 22, 2013
You know those two little lines you get in your forehead when you frown? The ones that, if you frown too much, stick there for good? The French... More >>
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This Year's Big Cannes Winner: People Who Want Great Screen Sex
published May 22, 2013
You probably won't respect me after I tell you this, but the movie that really made me want to come to Cannes was Mr. Bean's Holiday, in... More >>
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Greta Gerwig Stars in Noah Baumbach's Dating Manual, Frances Ha
published May 15, 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 15, 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 >>
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Cannes: Young & Beautiful is a Portrait of a 17-Year-Old French Call Girl
published May 15, 2013
François Ozon's Young & Beautiful, a portrait of a 17-year-old... More >>
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Cannes: Not Even the Gifted Emma Watson Can Raise The Bling Ring
published May 15, 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 Diary: What Are the Women in Their Dresses Hoping For?
published May 15, 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 between a young... More >>
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Cannes: The Selfish Giant is Great Boys-to-Men Drama
published May 15, 2013
Considering that the Cannes experience consists mostly of critics and other assorted ornery types shambling into theaters, sitting in front of... More >>
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R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen, Master of the Handmade Fantasy
published May 8, 2013
In the course of reviewing movies in the early 2000s, just as computer-generated special effects were becoming radically sophisticated and were... More >>
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The Great Gatsby's Sometimes Great, But Not Always Good
published May 8, 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 >>
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Sarah Polley Gets to Know All the Women Her Mother Is in Stories We Tell
published May 8, 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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Something in the Air Moves Forward without Erasing the Past
published May 1, 2013
Young people are lovely in ways they can't comprehend until years later. Yesterday's haircut straight out of Scooby-Doo becomes... More >>
