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.

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

In the 1990s, she worked for The Boston Phoenix and Inc.. From 1999 to 2010, she was a film critic and senior writer at Salon.com. 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 February 2018, she was selected to be on the jury for the main competition section of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.