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STEPHANIE ZACHAREK

Agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

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

Publications: CNN.com, Salon.com, Sight and Sound

Critics' Group: New York Film Critics Online

Total Reviews: 1006

Location: Brooklyn, NY, US

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Fresh	Rotten 50%	It's Complicated (2009)	" Meyers has dropped something a bit more subtle than her usual anvil. This one is more like a mere tire iron, but at least we've got Baldwin: He's the pixie dust that chases away the ensuing headache." — Salon.com Posted Dec 23, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 64%	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)	" It meanders and jaywalks according to its own confused rhythms, and the suggestion is that if we don't get it -- or if we get bored -- we're just not clued in to Gilliam's genius." — Salon.com Posted Dec 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 69%	Sherlock Holmes (2009)	" *It's hard to get too bent out of shape about Sherlock Holmes,* partly because the actors seem to take so much pleasure in the act of giving us a crazy spectacle.*" — Salon.com* Posted Dec 23, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 74%	The Young Victoria (2009)	" Watching the slow, cautious courtship between Victoria and Albert is so pleasurable, so surprisingly not-boring, that it doesn't matter how much of the ending we already know." — Salon.com Posted Dec 21, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 83%	Avatar (2009)	" It's a remote-control movie experience, a high-tech "wish you were here" scribbled on a very expensive postcard." — Salon.com Posted Dec 18, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" Quentin Tarantino seems to be hanging on to a lost world of moviemaking. He may be nuts. But he's a nut who cares." — Salon.com Posted Dec 16, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Crazy Heart (2009)	" Gyllenhaal and Bridges are marvelous together, playing their characters' cautious affection for each other as an alluring winding path that's actually laden with minefields." — Salon.com Posted Dec 16, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 41%	The Lovely Bones (2009)	" *With his garish, pointless and downright inept rendering of Alice Sebold's 2002 novel, The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson has hit a new low in the annals of movie adaptations." — Salon.com* Posted Dec 11, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 76%	Invictus (2009)	" *For a picture with so much invested in its staunch sense of social justice, Invictus* ultimately goes down not as medicine but as entertainment.*" — Salon.com* Posted Dec 11, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 82%	A Single Man (2009)	" A Single Man, un film de Tom Ford, is all art and no direction -- it's a picture made up of visual choices with almost no filmmaking sandwiched between." — Salon.com Posted Dec 10, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 46%	Everybody's Fine (2009)	" Another actor might have greedily milked the story's pathos quotient (believe me, there are plenty of opportunities). But De Niro hangs back, and the approach works." — Salon.com Posted Dec 3, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 89%	Up in the Air (2009)	" The picture is brushed with a fine glaze of slickness, a product sealed in a blister pack. It's like airplane air -- it has a packaged freshness that isn't really fresh at all." — Salon.com Posted Dec 3, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 57%	Brothers (2009)	" Sheridan shapes the drama so casually that he succeeds in making it feel naturalistically unshaped." — Salon.com Posted Dec 3, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Me and Orson Welles (2009)	" This is a standard coming-of-age story set in a milieu that's anything but standard, and that's what keeps the picture's motor running." — Salon.com Posted Nov 24, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 31%	Ninja Assassin (2009)	" Ninja Assassin lives in the moment, a visceral gouge of a picture, and sections of it move so fast -- and are so intriguingly, dimly lit -- that you have to use your imagination a bit to discern what's happening." — Salon.com Posted Nov 24, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)	" *There's a valuable lesson to be learned from Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans: Two wrongs don't make a right -- it takes at least three." — Salon.com* Posted Nov 19, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 28%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" New Moon offers few of the juicy, go-for-broke romantic pleasures of its predecessor, and the movie is so badly shaped that it's hard not to blame Weitz as a director." — Salon.com Posted Nov 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Broken Embraces (2009)	" *Cruz doesn't coast on her beauty in Broken Embraces, and she has the kind of role that can be difficult to flesh out." — Salon.com* Posted Nov 19, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 60%	Pirate Radio (2009)	" *Despite Curtis' bumbling, Pirate Radio* manages to stay afloat bravely enough -- at least until the climax, which comes off as a confused marriage between Top of the Pops and Titanic.*" — Salon.com* Posted Nov 12, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 39%	2012 (2009)	" The effects are expensive-looking and impressive enough while you're watching them, although whatever awe they inspire doesn't last long: When you've seen one Washington Monument fall to bits, you've seen them all." — Salon.com Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" Fantastic Mr. Fox is possibly the finest picture about family, community and poultry thievery ever made." — Salon.com Posted Nov 12, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 53%	The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)	" *There's no doubt we need more movies for grown-ups, with jokes that don't hit us over the head, but The Men Who Stare at Goats* doesn't fit the bill. At best, it might hypnotize you into a stupor.*" — Salon.com* Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 44%	The Box (2009)	" Kelly tries to gather so many ideas under this movie's umbrella: He has strong ideas about the necessity of compassion in everyday life. He wonders what awaits us after death. But he can't flesh out all of these ideas properly, or even haphazardly." — Salon.com Posted Nov 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 87%	The House of the Devil (2009)	" The House of the Devil is really a romance: a love letter to the kind of gal we thought had given up the ghost." — Salon.com Posted Oct 30, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)	" Jackson's mystery deepens, even as it dissolves between our fingers." — Salon.com Posted Oct 28, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 37%	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)	" Cirque du Freak is disjointed and disorganized, and it meanders when it needs to gallop." — Salon.com Posted Oct 23, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 73%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" Jonze's ideas, visual and otherwise, spill out in a faux-philosophical ramble that isn't nearly as deep as he thinks it is; at best, it's a scrambled tone poem. Even the look of the picture becomes tiresome after a while." — Salon.com Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Good Hair (2010)	" *Chris Rock's Good Hair* is one of those rare documentaries that works on two seemingly incongruous levels at once: It's both social commentary and pure delight.*" — Salon.com* Posted Oct 9, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 12%	Couples Retreat (2009)	" Couples Retreat is neither funny nor honest. The exact opposite of a retreat, it's merely exhausting." — Salon.com Posted Oct 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Whip It (2009)	" Whip It has such a sweet spirit that it's easy enough to let its flaws sail by." — Salon.com Posted Oct 2, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 57%	The Invention of Lying (2009)	" *There's no hope that Gervais' performance in The Invention of Lying* will open up new hope for a different kind of leading man -- and that's what makes his resoluteness so great.*" — Salon.com* Posted Oct 2, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Zombieland (2009)	" Zombieland is a romance, a comedy, a road movie and a freewheeling schlock horrorfest, all in one." — Salon.com Posted Oct 2, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 40%	Surrogates (2009)	" Surrogates stays afloat by not taking itself too seriously, but also by recognizing that a movie about robots shouldn't look as if it were made by one." — Salon.com Posted Sep 24, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 75%	Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)	" This is a love story, all right, but it has less to do with the flaws of capitalism than it does with Moore's unwavering fondness for the sound of his own voice, and for what he perceives as his own vast cleverness." — Salon.com Posted Sep 23, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 44%	Jennifer's Body (2009)	" The movie substitutes calculation for brains, and the filmmakers seem to think we'll all be too stupid to notice." — Salon.com Posted Sep 18, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 85%	Bright Star (2009)	" Campion -- who also wrote the screenplay, inspired by British poet Andrew Motion's biography of Keats -- tells the story of Keats and Fanny in delicate, painterly colors, layered in such a way that they're vividly vital." — Salon.com Posted Sep 18, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 18%	Love Happens (2009)	" A limp romantic drama that occasionally lifts its drowsy head to attempt a wan smile, a picture that starts out being harmlessly dull and ends, somehow, in a place that feels insultingly manipulative." — Salon.com Posted Sep 18, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 6%	Whiteout (2009)	" *What's missing from Whiteout* is the pervasive sense of paranoia that you'd expect, or hope for, from a thriller set on the coldest and most isolated land mass on the planet.*" — Salon.com* Posted Sep 11, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 6%	All About Steve (2009)	" A romantic comedy so lunkheaded and ill-conceived that it makes your average, idiotic Kate Hudson-Matthew McConaughey outing look like the reincarnation of Hepburn and Grant." — Salon.com Posted Sep 4, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 63%	Extract (2009)	" This isn't a misanthropic picture; its true subject is the way love for our fellow human beings is so often thwarted by their actual behavior -- and still, stupidly perhaps, we just won't give up on them." — Salon.com Posted Sep 4, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 49%	Taking Woodstock (2009)	" It's harmless enough as a snapshot of a young man's awakening to the grand possibilities of adult life, but not particularly effective at capturing the spirit, the thrill or even the mud of this culturally monumental event." — Salon.com Posted Aug 28, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 84%	The September Issue (2009)	" R.J. Cutler's vibrant and mischievous documentary The September Issue is only partly a movie about fashion. At its heart, it's really a movie about work, about the ways individuals compete with, grate against and inspire one another in the workplace." — Salon.com Posted Aug 27, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 70%	My One and Only (2009)	" My One and Only is an affectionate picture, set in the early 1950s, that coasts breezily on its charm and style." — Salon.com Posted Aug 21, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Ponyo (2009)	" Ponyo hasn't changed my mind about Miyazaki. But I'm willing to accept and enjoy this little window into the dream life of fish." — Salon.com Posted Aug 19, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 38%	The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)	" There's not much [McAdams] or Bana can do to rescue this dreary piece of romantic hooey." — Salon.com Posted Aug 14, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 75%	Julie & Julia (2009)	" Ephron does the smart thing in Julie & Julia and lets Streep carry the day, with a minimum of embellishment." — Salon.com Posted Aug 7, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 75%	Cold Souls (2009)	" Cold Souls works precisely because its ambitions are somewhat mellow; this isn't a relentlessly high-strung picture." — Salon.com Posted Aug 7, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 68%	Funny People (2009)	" Funny People is an ambitious, misshapen picture that feels like two, maybe even three, separate movies uncomfortably jammed into one." — Salon.com Posted Jul 31, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 95%	In the Loop (2009)	" The jagged rhythms of the movie's dialogue are entertaining in themselves, and it's fun to watch the actors keep their lines spinning and bouncing off each other." — Salon.com Posted Jul 24, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 14%	The Ugly Truth (2009)	" Until that final, inevitable kiss, we have to listen to them, and the clatter of their crude, brainless exchanges is unbearable." — Salon.com Posted Jul 24, 2009

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