Email Author Stephanie Zacharek
2013 Stories by Stephanie Zacharek
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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 >>
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It's Shtick and Explosions for the Great Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 3
published April 24, 2013
W here has Robert Downey Jr. gone? There’s no doubt he’s the star of Iron Man 3; he sprints through the picture like a... More >>
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Tribeca Lives! Ten Films to See at a Fest That's All Grown Up
published April 17, 2013
Now that the Tribeca Film Festival is in its 12th year, let's take a moment to reflect on the six words you can find in just about any account... More >>
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Terrence Malick's Gorgeous and Ridiculous To the Wonder
published April 10, 2013
I have rarely enjoyed watching Terrence Malick's movies. But I really wouldn't want to be him. When you're a reclusive perfectionist... More >>
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Shane Carruth Designed Upstream Color, Now You Put it Together
published April 3, 2013
There's a thin line between what's truly mysterious and what's totally bogus. A movie that leaves you feeling unclear about what's happening... More >>
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Tina Fey's Great, But Admission Doesn't Make the Grade
published March 20, 2013
An actress in her thirties—a woman, that is, still playing characters of baby-making age—may have it even tougher than actresses in... More >>
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Kirsten Dunst Plays A Rainbow in Upside Down
published March 13, 2013
I t doesn’t matter how many droopy sweaters you put Kirsten Dunst in, and in Upside Down she wears quite a few: She always looks... More >>
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Jeanine Basinger Explains Why There's So Few Great Marriage Movies
published February 27, 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... More >>
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21 & Over Just Dares You to Get Offended
published February 27, 2013
Guy humor is always with us, kind of like the poor. For as long as cavemen have been etching fart jokes into the walls of caves, women have... More >>
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Fear a Steady Diet of Movies Like Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
published January 30, 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 >>
