Stephanie Zacharek
American film critic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American film critic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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] In February 2018, invited to serve as a judge for the main competition unit of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival
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Education | Syracuse University (BS) |
Occupation(s) | Film critic, journalist |
Years active | 1986–present |
Stephanie Zacharek received a Bachelor of Science degree from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, in New York.[2]
In the 1990s, Zacharek worked for The Boston Phoenix and Inc.[citation needed] 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]