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Stephanie Zacharek

Stephanie Zacharek is an American film critic at Time, based in New York City. From 2013 to 2015, she was the principal film critic for The Village Voice. She was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist in criticism.[1]

Stephanie Zacharek

Film critic, journalist

1986–present

Early life[edit]

Stephanie Zacharek received a Bachelor of Science degree from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, in New York.[2]

Career[edit]

In the 1990s, Zacharek worked for The Boston Phoenix and Inc. From 1999 to 2010, she was a film critic and senior writer at Salon.com, where her husband, Charles Taylor, was also a film critic until 2005.[3] She became chief film critic of Movieline in 2010,[4] and left in mid-2012. In April 2013, the Voice Media Group hired her as chief film critic of The Village Voice.[5] In 2015 she left the Village Voice and became the film critic for Time magazine.[6] In February 2018, she was selected to be on the jury for the main competition section of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.[7]

2013 -

Gravity

2014 -

Under the Skin

2015 -

Spotlight

2016 -

Moonlight

2017 -

The Post

2018 -

Roma

2019 -

Pain and Glory

2020 -

First Cow

2021 -

The Power of the Dog

2022 -

The Fabelmans

2023 -

Fallen Leaves

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Stephanie Zacharek