ROTTEN TOMATOES: Stephanie Zacharek

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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: 985

Location: Brooklyn, NY, US

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Rotten	Rotten 56%	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 47%	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 88%	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 71%	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 95%	Good Hair (2009)	" *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 82%	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 55%	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 38%	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 45%	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 83%	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 17%	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 51%	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 71%	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 76%	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 15%	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
Fresh	Fresh 87%	500 Days of Summer (2009)	" *Everything that's wrong, on the surface, with (500) Days of Summer* pales in light of everything that's going on beneath its surface.*" — Salon.com* Posted Jul 17, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" The Half-Blood Prince is a beautifully paced feat of filmmaking, one that navigates potentially choppy shifts in scale with grace and ease." — Salon.com Posted Jul 15, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 14%	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 67%	Br�no (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 67%	Public Enemies (2009)	" Ultimately an odd blend of frustrating and satisfying." — Salon.com Posted Jul 1, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 16%	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 54%	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 98%	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 47%	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 43%	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 15%	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 26%	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 92%	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 98%	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 45%	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

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