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Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... Shaping the Future , currently running at the Museum of the City of New York. And finally, Stephanie Zacharek details Willem Dafoe's work in Idiot Savant thusly: "If the sight of Willem Dafoe making his entrance in a Samurai topknot, multiple layered dirndl skirts, and socks held up with garters — while he’s also carrying a birdcage housing a plastic duck, by the...
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Critic-O-Meter (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... the aggravating and overly ingratiating edges of Simon's script. The unmoved this time around are Stephanie Zacharek and John Simon: Simon doesn't like what he sees as a not-Jewish-enough production, while one suspects Zacharek wouldn't like Brighton Beach Memoirs if it contained a musical number midway through praising her by name. Newsday A+ (Linda Winer) With his beautifully...
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Critic-O-Meter (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... (when mentioned) and the set design all come out with generally favorable marks. NYMag A (Stephanie Zacharek) August Strindberg’s 1888 play Miss Julie is lauded as a great work, but I’m not so sure about that. It’s a terse, cold play that examines an archetypal hysterical female, locked into rigid ideas of sex and class, as if she were a bug under a jar. It is scarily...
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Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are takes a 10-sentence children’s book and turns it into a full-length movie that’s not really for kids at all. But most critics liked it anyway. Here’s what they’re saying: “Parents and tykes expecting the next Shrek will be sorely disappointed if not a...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
... on Westminster . Logan Hill talks to butt-slapping Wild Things soundtracker Karen O . Dan Kois and Stephanie Zacharek review Broadway's Hamlet , Broke-ology , Wishful Drinking , Let Me Down Easy , and Love, Loss, and What I Wore . And David Edelstein reviews Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are . Read more posts by Lane Brown Filed Under: in the magazine , john irving
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The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
... Metacritic, the lowest score for a Pixar film. Many critics saw it as an uninspired or derivative. Stephanie Zacharek said that it, “feels soldered together from a scrap heap of tired ideas,” and Manohla Dargis complained , “ Cars is nothing if not totally, disappointingly new-age Disney.” Even positive reviews were tepid: David Ansen said that, “It dazzles...
