It's time to start recognizing that not all escapist entertainment is created equal. And that some of it isn't even entertainment. "Miss March" is, to use the vernacular of the escapist moviegoer, the biggest pile of crap I've seen in… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Ewan McGregor stars as Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, again doing a fine Alec Guinness impersonation but otherwise seeming lost and alone in the galaxy as… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Oldboy makes us feel a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a grand, gritty, indelible experience, the sort of picture that mimics great… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
The scariest thing in it may be the way the clock radio has a way of turning itself on, loudly, of its own accord.… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
It's guilty of the very thing that makes kids hate history as a subject when it's taught badly: The Da Vinci Code makes the… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic. — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting. — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Children of Men is a solemn, haunting picture, but it's also a thrilling one, partly because of the sheer bravado with which it's made.… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Pan's Labyrinth works on so many levels that it seems to change shape even as you watch it. It is, at times, a joyless… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
It's time to start recognizing that not all escapist entertainment is created equal. And that some of it isn't even entertainment. "Miss March" is,… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
While "9 Songs" is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it. — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
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