The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Director Michael Mann’s new historical gangster film, Public Enemies, debuts today in the States (though British moviegoers will have to wait until Friday to see it). But already, this picture starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and Marion Cotillard has been hailed by Salon’s Stephanie Zacharek. In her review today, Zacharek writes:“Public Enemies” is...
scanners (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
... just hate this movie, they find it anti-movie . Why? It's just a summer screen-filler, isn't it? Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com thinks it stinks: "He's here -- I smell him." That's a line from "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," but funnily enough, it's also what I think every time I sit down to watch a Michael Bay movie. Ty Burr of the Boston Globe says: 'Transformers: Revenge...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
The critics have had their say on Will Ferrell's Land of the Lost , and one thing many seem to agree on — apart from not liking it — is their bafflement over how such a movie was ever green-lit: "Who is this thing for? Why does it even exist?" asks Stephanie Zacharek, echoing the basic sentiments of pretty much everybody on Metacritic . It's based on a TV series...
