Email Author STEPHANIE ZACHAREK

2013 Stories by STEPHANIE ZACHAREK

• 'Before Midnight''s Aftermath

  published May 23, 2013

  Ask people about their favorite movies, and the same titles come up regularly—Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, Annie... More >>

• 'We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks': All the News That's Fit to Hack

  published May 23, 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 >>

• Cannes: Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra Is a Delightful Little Curio

  published May 23, 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 >>

• Cannes: Refn's Again with Ryan Gosling, but Only God Forgives Isn't in the Same League as Drive

  published May 23, 2013

  Expectations here in Cannes were high—or at least semi-high—for Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives,... More >>

• Here's to Frances Ha, the New New Girl

  published May 16, 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 >>

• Cannes Diary: What Are the Women in Their Dresses Hoping For?

  published May 16, 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... More >>

• Cannes: 'Heli' Is Family Drama Set Against Mexico’s Drug Wars

  published May 16, 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 >>

• Cannes: Not Even the Gifted Emma Watson Can Raise 'The Bling Ring'

  published May 16, 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 >>

• Cannes: 'Young & Beautiful' Is a Portrait of a 17-Year-Old French Call Girl

  published May 16, 2013

  François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful, a portrait of a 17-year-old French call girl, is something else... More >>

• 'The Great Gatsby': Beautiful, Damned

  published May 9, 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 >>

• R.I.P., Ray Harryhausen

  published May 9, 2013

  In the course of reviewing movies in the early 2000s, just as computer-generated special effects were becoming radically sophisticated and were... More >>

• The Rashomom of 'Stories We Tell'

  published May 9, 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 >>

• 'Iron' Deficiency

  published May 2, 2013

  Where has Robert Downey Jr. gone? There's no doubt he's the star of Iron Man 3; he sprints through the picture as though a neurotic... More >>

• Beauty Revolts In 'Something In the Air'

  published May 2, 2013

  Young people are lovely in ways they can't comprehend until years later. Yesterday's haircut straight out of Scooby Doo becomes... More >>

• 'To the Wonder' Is Spinning in Place

  published April 11, 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 >>

• 'Upstream Color' Is the Ultimate DIY

  published April 4, 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 >>

• Tina Fey Makes the Grade, As Always, But Does 'Admission'?

  published March 21, 2013

  An actress in her thirties—that is, a woman still playing characters of baby-making age—may have it even tougher than actresses in... More >>

• The Modest Marvels of 'Upside Down'

  published March 14, 2013

  It 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 >>

• Kiss Kiss Ho Hum: 'I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies'

  published February 28, 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.... More >>

• '21 & Over' Dares You to Get Offended

  published February 28, 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 >>

• Too Much Candy In 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters'

  published January 24, 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 >>