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. In February 2018, she was invited to serve as a judge for the main competition unit of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.
Early life Stephanie Zacharek received a Bachelor of Science degree from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, in New York.
Career Zacharek contributed articles to Rolling Stone Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Interview, The Village Voice and The Boston Phoenix. For 9 years, she was a copy editor at 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. She became chief film critic of Movieline in 2010, and left in mid-2012. In April 2013, the Voice Media Group hired her as chief film critic of The Village Voice. In 2015 she left the Village Voice and became the film critic for Time magazine. In February 2018, she was selected to be on the jury for the main competition section of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.
Personal life Zacharek was married to film critic Charles Taylor, but they are now divorced. Zacharek tried to have children when she was younger, but never got pregnant. However, today she has "zero regrets" about not having children. As of 1999, she lives in New York.
Preferences When she participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, Zacharek listed her ten favorite films as follows: Breathless, Carlito's Way, The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, The Lady Eve, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Rules of the Game, Sunrise, Touch of Evil, and The World of Apu. She has also cited Holiday as a personal favorite.
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External links
Stephanie Zacharek at Rotten Tomatoes