The scariest thing in it may be the way the clock radio has a way of turning itself on, loudly, of its own accord. The song is always the Carpenters'…

- Stephanie Zacharek

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 highly unscientific experiment des…

- Stephanie Zacharek

We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is th…

- Stephanie Zacharek

The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.

- Stephanie Zacharek

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 of everything tha…

- Stephanie Zacharek

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 movie is a pair of eyes.

- Stephanie Zacharek

It's impossible to tell what's going on at any given moment in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; it's even harder to care about being able to tell.

- Stephanie Zacharek

Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic.

- Stephanie Zacharek

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, t…

- Stephanie Zacharek