ROTTEN TOMATOES: Stephanie Zacharek

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STEPHANIE ZACHAREK

Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% 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: 954

Location: Brooklyn, NY, US

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Rotten	Rotten 10%	I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)	" I Love You, Beth Cooper moves along, taking two steps backward into crassness for every clever or just plain sweet moment it offers." — Salon.com Posted Jul 10, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 71%	Bruno (2009)	" Cohen has come up with some marvelous satirical motifs; elsewhere, he's just showing how far he'll go to get a laugh." — Salon.com Posted Jul 10, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 66%	Public Enemies (2009)	" Ultimately an odd blend of frustrating and satisfying." — Salon.com Posted Jul 1, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 17%	I Hate Valentine's Day (2009)	" I Hate Valentine's Day is a horror show masquerading as a romantic comedy. Maybe Vardalos is just in the wrong line of work." — Salon.com Posted Jun 30, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 51%	Cheri (2009)	" Ch�ri is a perfect example of a movie that gets many of the details right and the vibe all wrong." — Salon.com Posted Jun 26, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" In the end, Bigelow's point of view is what's most interesting about The Hurt Locker. The picture's strength lies in the details she focuses on." — Salon.com Posted Jun 26, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 19%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" Bay seems to think that just showing us a bunch of brightly clashing metallic limbs (accompanied by lots of noise) is enough to make us faint in our seats with excitement." — Salon.com Posted Jun 24, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 46%	Whatever Works (2009)	" A belabored trifle that's occasionally amusing but often just bewildering, beginning with the movie's intentionally outlandish setup." — Salon.com Posted Jun 19, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 46%	The Proposal (2009)	" *A romantic comedy doesn't need to be original to be enjoyable, and yet The Proposal* still falls way too short of the mark.*" — Salon.com* Posted Jun 19, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 17%	Year One (2009)	" It ambles along uncertainly, hobbled by the lack of chemistry between its two lead actors, and by gags that either try too hard or suffer from being barely there." — Salon.com Posted Jun 19, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 66%	Away We Go (2009)	" *The main sin of Away We Go* is simple dullness.*" — Salon.com* Posted Jun 5, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 28%	Land of the Lost (2009)	" Land of the Lost is harmless enough. It just isn't, with the exception of a few odd air pockets, particularly funny." — Salon.com Posted Jun 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 78%	The Hangover (2009)	" The Hangover is a cut above the typical contemporary guy-friendship comedy." — Salon.com Posted Jun 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" The looseness Raimi allows himself here results in an especially joyous kind of filmmaking, the sort where the filmmaker's delight in scaring us (and making us laugh) becomes part of the movie's fabric." — Salon.com Posted May 29, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 97%	Up (2009)	" Its charms appear to have been applied with surgical precision; by the end, I felt expertly sutured, but not much else." — Salon.com Posted May 29, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 44%	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	" Whatever its flaws may be, it at least refuses to be a stiff, lifeless relic." — Salon.com Posted May 21, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" Terminator Salvation is so programmed, so impersonal, that it practically dares you to warm to its characters." — Salon.com Posted May 21, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 46%	Management (2009)	" Management is ultimately undone by its own bland idiosyncrasies. It's nothing but a mismanaged opportunity." — Salon.com Posted May 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Summer Hours (2009)	" *The magic of Summer Hours* is that even in its elusiveness, it gives us something to hang onto.*" — Salon.com* Posted May 15, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 37%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" *Ron Howard's follow-up to the stiff, stately 2006 The Da Vinci Code, might have been classy, entertaining junk -- if only it were entertaining." — Salon.com* Posted May 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 73%	Objectified (2009)	" Objectified is so straightforward, sensible and thought-provoking that it alleviates that design noise instead of adding to it." — Salon.com Posted May 8, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" With Star Trek Abrams honors the show's legacy without fossilizing its best qualities. Instead, he's whisked it off to a planet where numbing nostalgia can't kill it, and where the future is still something to look forward to." — Salon.com Posted May 8, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 36%	X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)	" The problem with Wolverine isn't that the mythology is detailed and potentially confusing. The bigger issue is that "Wolverine" is so uninvolving that you might not care whether you remember what happened 10 minutes ago." — Salon.com Posted Apr 30, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 18%	Obsessed (2009)	" Obsessed takes far too long to get cooking, and it works so hard at not being exploitation that it loses sight of its reasons for existing in the first place." — Salon.com Posted Apr 27, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 55%	The Soloist (2009)	" *In the end, The Soloist* is about how unknowable other people really are -- an idea that's terrifying until you step back and see the wonder of it.*" — Salon.com* Posted Apr 24, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 62%	Crank High Voltage (2009)	" *In Crank: High Voltage,* Statham just looks miserable, as if appearing in this lousy picture just sucked all the heart right out of him.*" — Salon.com* Posted Apr 20, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 56%	17 Again (2009)	" 17 Again takes a while to get cooking, and at times it just feels like a pale imitation of 13 Going on 30. Still, it's often breezily entertaining, partly thanks to Efron, who certainly knows how to be cute." — Salon.com Posted Apr 17, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 85%	State of Play (2009)	" State of Play does get a little creaky in its last third -- at that point it needs to be more streamlined, more concise. But Macdonald and the screenwriters manage to weave their ideas through a sturdy-enough plot, so we never feel we're being preached to" — Salon.com Posted Apr 17, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 46%	Hannah Montana The Movie (2009)	" Assorted conflicts and adventures ensue, and the movie overall is painless if not exactly electrifying." — Salon.com Posted Apr 10, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 51%	Observe and Report (2009)	" The whole thing is calibrated to wow us with its weirdness, even as it assumes an air of 'Who, me?' guilelessness. I've seen slick, glossy Hollywood thrillers made with less knowing calculation." — Salon.com Posted Apr 10, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 28%	Fast & Furious (2009)	" Fast & Furious spends a lot of time advertising how exciting it is, without actually being exciting." — Salon.com Posted Apr 3, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 50%	The Education of Charlie Banks (2009)	" There's enough sweetness, and enough just-under-the-surface intelligence, in "The Education of Charlie Banks" to suggest that Durst may have a future as a filmmaker." — Salon.com Posted Mar 26, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 72%	Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)	" MvA isn't, and isn't pretending to be, as ambitious a project as Pixar's almost universally lauded Wall-E was. But does it have to feel like something that's just rolled off a conveyor belt, made according to an exacting but dull set of specifications?" — Salon.com Posted Mar 26, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 32%	Knowing (2009)	" *If Alex Proyas' Knowing* were reasonably entertaining -- instead of just dour, pointless and tedious -- it would be a camp classic.*" — Salon.com* Posted Mar 23, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 66%	Duplicity (2009)	" *I started out loving Duplicity; by the end, I wanted to strangle it." — Salon.com* Posted Mar 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	I Love You, Man (2009)	" The marvelous thing about John Hamburg's new comedy, I Love You, Man, is that rather than conforming to fit into some preexisting trend, it recognizes and even exalts in the reality that close male friendships can be a source of confusion and awkwardness." — Salon.com Posted Mar 20, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 73%	Sunshine Cleaning (2009)	" Although Adams and Blunt work hard at giving dimension to their characters, they can't overcome the fact that the story is essentially a greatest hits of family trauma." — Salon.com Posted Mar 13, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 4%	Miss March (2009)	" Miss March is, to use the vernacular of the escapist moviegoer, the biggest pile of crap I've seen in ages." — Salon.com Posted Mar 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 74%	Tokyo! (2009)	" *The refusal of Tokyo!* to proffer even the most perfunctory air kiss is what makes it so intriguing.*" — Salon.com* Posted Mar 6, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 12%	Crossing Over (2009)	" An interesting failure, a movie that at least strives to be about something, entangling itself with the question of what it means to be an American -- or, more specifically, what it means to deserve to live here." — Salon.com Posted Feb 27, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 28%	Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail (2009)	" As an alternative to the Hollywood mainstream, which doesn't provide many good roles for African-American actors, Perry's movies are at least a stopgap solution. It's just too bad they're not better." — Salon.com Posted Feb 23, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 58%	The International (2009)	" The International is so self-assured, so assertive in its devotion to craftsmanship, that it proves Tykwer is continually building on his promise as a filmmaker, not squandering it." — Salon.com Posted Feb 12, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 13%	The Pink Panther 2 (2009)	" What is our reward for the collective effort of this prestigious assembly? One of the most dreadfully unnecessary movies in recent memory." — Salon.com Posted Feb 6, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 43%	He's Just Not That Into You (2009)	" Somewhere along the way, He's Just Not That Into You starts taking all the wrong forks in the road of romance and ends up nowhere." — Salon.com Posted Feb 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Coraline (2009)	" *Nearly everything in Coraline* has been painstakingly handmade.*" — Salon.com* Posted Feb 6, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 31%	The Uninvited (2009)	" A horror-thriller that's neither horrifying nor thrilling." — Salon.com Posted Jan 30, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 18%	New in Town (2009)	" [A] drearily cheerful little picture that isn't nearly as funny or as heartwarming -- or even as topical, given the economic climate -- as it thinks it is." — Salon.com Posted Jan 30, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 57%	Taken (2009)	" *[Director] Morel keeps Taken* moving swiftly. It's never dragged down by excess feelings; instead, it's powered by the potency of the right ones.*" — Salon.com* Posted Jan 30, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 39%	Inkheart (2009)	" *Over and over again, characters in Inkheart* wax eloquent on the power of books. But there's nothing in the movie as haunting or as compelling as the sound they make when they speak for themselves.*" — Salon.com* Posted Jan 23, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 50%	Notorious (2009)	" Notorious is surprisingly and pleasantly unflashy, a straightforward picture that makes a distinction between classiness and bling." — Salon.com Posted Jan 16, 2009

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