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“Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic.”

Stephanie Zacharek

Review http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2003/12/25/monster/index.html of Monster (2003)

“Despite the bare butts and crude sex jokes -- or because of them -- this Adam Sandler vehicle addresses some of the biggest political problems of our time. … At the very least, it's got to be the first picture to use smelly-feet jokes as a means of parsing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But more than that, it's a mainstream movie that dares to make jokes about the kinds of complex political realities that most of us don't dare bring up at dinner parties.”

Stephanie Zacharek

Review http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/06/zohan/ of You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)

Sex , Problem , Reality , Time

“Oldboy makes us feel a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a grand, gritty, indelible experience, the sort of picture that mimics great literature in the way it envelops you in a well-told story while also evoking subtle but strong gradations of emotion.”

Stephanie Zacharek

Review http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/movies/review/2005/03/25/oldboy/index.html of Oldboy (2003)

Way , Feeling , Literature , Strong

“I suspect this picture is pretty close to what fans were hoping for, and for their sake, I'm glad it's markedly better than the two that preceded it. But Revenge of the Sith is still crap.”

Stephanie Zacharek

Review http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2005/05/18/star_wars_iii/index.html of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Hope , Revenge

“Children of Men is a solemn, haunting picture, but it's also a thrilling one, partly because of the sheer bravado with which it's made. It left me feeling more fortified than drained. [Director Alfonso] Cuarón, the most openhearted of directors, prefers to give rather than take away.”

Stephanie Zacharek

Review http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2006/12/25/children/print.html of Children of Men (2006)

Men , Children , Feeling

“Pan's Labyrinth works on so many levels that it seems to change shape even as you watch it. It is, at times, a joyless picture, and its pall of sadness can begin to weigh you down.”

Stephanie Zacharek

Review http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2006/10/13/pans_labyrinth/ of Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Sadness , Change , Time

“Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right.”

Stephanie Zacharek

Review http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/12/14/vanilla/index.html of Vanilla Sky (2001)

Betrayal

“This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, Speed Racer is an excess of nothingness.”

Stephanie Zacharek

Review http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/05/09/speed_racer/ of Speed Racer (2008)

Gauge , Sense , Speed