Stephanie Zacharek

Godzilla; Credit: PHOTO COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES

Godzilla Has Too Small a Part in His Own Movie

Stephanie Zacharek
Godzilla is the movie monster with the mostest. King Kong may be just one gorilla-chest-hair behind, but not even the greatest of apes can quite match the half-dragon, half-dinosaur who first stomped and chomped his way through Tokyo in Ishiro Honda's 1954 Toho Co. extravaganza, Godzilla. In that picture —......

Cannes Report: Grace of Monaco at Least Has Clothes

Stephanie Zacharek
Greetings from Cannes! It’s an unwritten rule — maybe it should even be a written one — that no one who is lucky enough to come to Cannes for the film festival, now in its 67th year, should, in any way, shape or form, complain about being here. But may......

Jim Jarmusch's Vampire Movie May Be His Best

Stephanie Zacharek
The vampires that walk among us — and they do — are not the Twilight kind, or the True Blood kind, or even the Buffy kind. In the world of Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, the director's most emotionally direct film since Dead Man and maybe his finest, period,......

Bloody Floody: Noah Wants to Be a Mad Epic

Stephanie Zacharek
To hear Darren Aronofsky tell it, in the interviews he's given recently to the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker, there was no way in hell he'd let his special-effects extravaganza Noah, years in the planning, be your run-of-the-mill, candy-ass biblical epic. The ark built by Russell Crowe's......
Muppets Most Wanted

Muppets Most Wanted Improves on Disney's 2011 Reboot

Stephanie Zacharek
If you count forward from Jim Henson's mid-1960s TV appearances with a fringy pup named Rowlf and the lizard, made from an old winter coat, who would later become Kermit the Frog, the Muppets have outlived most of their early puppet peers by more than two generations: You don't see......