Stephanie Zacharek is the principal film critic for The Village Voice. She also co-hosts the Voice's weekly film podcast, Voice Film Club. She's a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and of the National Society of Film Critics.
It’s an unwritten rule that we’re supposed to feel most in step with people our own age, as if sharing the same cultural and... More >>
Before there was a Birdman, there was a Batman — several, in fact, though the best was played by Michael Keaton in the two... More >>
Among its many attributes, Justin Simien's exuberant debut feature, Dear White People, proves that we're not yet living in a... More >>
You can’t live in New York for more than 10 days without meeting some truly dreadful people: couples who fret about having to... More >>
God save us from old coots and the actors who play them. Is that a terrible thing to say? Actors, like the rest of us, grow old, and... More >>
Jazz isn't dead. Miraculously, there's always a small but steady stream of young people who continue to fall in love with this most... More >>
In Michael Roemer's superb and little-seen 1964 drama Nothing But a Man — playing October 8 and 9 as part of Film Forum's... More >>
First there was The Driver, then there was Drive Angry, and then there was Drive. Now there’s Drive Hard... More >>
Groupie has come to be an ugly word, a misogynist dig that's used all too casually by men and women alike. A groupie is a woman... More >>
Everything about Gone Girl, David Fincher's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's enormously popular 2012 thriller about a deteriorating... More >>
It says something about current global affairs that a movie set during the U.K. miners’ strike of the mid-1980s -- an event that... More >>
Should we trust artists to tell the story of artists? On the plus side, who understands them better? If there's a secret language of... More >>
Terry Gilliam is a gifted, ambitious filmmaker who, sadly, may now be more famous for being misunderstood and underfunded than he is... More >>
Kevin Smith is a bright guy who over the years has become a little too taken with his own persona, his own jokes, his own cult following... More >>
Some movies seem to be put on this Earth just for actors. You look at the synopsis of a picture, and you think, "Well, it could be OK," but... More >>
When Louis B. Mayer saw Sunset Boulevard, he cursed Billy Wilder as a "man who bites the hand that feeds him." He was misguided,... More >>
The beginning of David Mackenzie’s U.K. prison drama, Starred Up, might make you wonder if you’ll survive to the end: We see... More >>
If older man/younger women matchups make many people uncomfortable, the older man/much younger women combo tends to make them... More >>
Should grown-ups be spending their time reading young-adult novels, at the risk of missing the supposed riches of fiction written for actual... More >>
You could be forgiven, after watching the opening minutes of Ira Sachs's fine-grained and flinty Love Is Strange, for thinking... More >>
Jean-Paul Belmondo in a white dinner jacket. There. That should be enough to sell you on Philippe de Broca's 1964 crime... More >>
Every other year or so, someone comes down the indie-movie pike with an idea for an unconventional zombie movie — as... More >>
Years ago, my husband would amuse me now and then with a re-enactment of the moment in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, where a... More >>
For women especially, it's wholly out of fashion to have sympathy for middle-aged, white men. In both real life and fiction, the... More >>
Lasse Hallström has become an expert at making mom-jeans movies, nonthreatening pictures in which headstrong women find love just... More >>