Stephanie Zacharek’s best movies of 2009
George Clooney's real performance of the year wasn't "Up in the Air." Plus: Jane Campion, "Star Trek" and madness!
Monday, Dec 28, 2009 1:20 AM UTC 29Entertainment Best of 2009, Movies
Stephanie Zacharek
Entertainment Best of 2009, Movies
“Sherlock Holmes”: Downey by Law
Guy Ritchie's version of the detective classic is hectic but harmless. Thank God for the film's two stars
Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 1:35 AM UTC 30Entertainment Sherlock Holmes, Jude Law
“It’s Complicated”: Another missive from romantic-comedy hell
Alec Baldwin -- in his undershorts, no less -- saves Nancy Meyers' latest midlife whingefest
Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 1:23 AM UTC 31Entertainment It's Complicated, Alec Baldwin
“The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus”: Filmmaker gone wild
Terry Gilliam makes a cluttered, clever mess of Heath Ledger's final film
Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 1:22 AM UTCEntertainment
Long live “The Young Victoria”
Emily Blunt shines as the tough-minded British queen in this lush, and even sexy, period romance
Saturday, Dec 19, 2009 1:15 AM UTC 15Entertainment The Young Victoria, Movies
“Avatar”: Dances with aliens
Canny bonehead James Cameron makes a flashy bid for filmmaking history
Friday, Dec 18, 2009 7:17 AM UTC 70Entertainment Avatar, James Cameron, Movies
“Nine”: Not quite a 10
A voluptuous Fergie and a suave Daniel Day-Lewis give Rob Marshall's uneven, Fellini-esque musical some class
Friday, Dec 18, 2009 1:20 AM UTCEntertainment Nine, Movies
“Crazy Heart”: Truck-stop romeo stripped down
Jeff Bridges gives the finest performance of the year in this modest but glowing country-music drama
Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009 1:15 AM UTC 15Entertainment Crazy Heart, Movies
“The Lovely Bones”: Be very afraid
Director Peter Jackson turns Alice Sebold's poetic bestseller into a garish supernatural thriller
Friday, Dec 11, 2009 3:19 AM UTC 48Entertainment The Lovely Bones
Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus”: Can rugby heal a nation?
The director's sports drama stars Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as the world's oldest teenager
Friday, Dec 11, 2009 3:16 AM UTC 32Entertainment Invictus, Clint Eastwood, Movies
“A Single Man”: Tom Ford’s shallow but compelling debut
In the fashion designer's cinematic entree, Colin Firth is a triumph of substance over style
Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 1:10 AM UTC 16Entertainment A Single Man, Movies
“Up in the Air”: Take the next flight
George Clooney sells a slick line of goods in this sort-of comedy about disconnection and economic instability
Friday, Dec 4, 2009 1:04 AM UTC 32Entertainment Up in the Air, Movies
“Everybody’s Fine”: Dysfunctional for the holidays
Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell hash it out in this modestly pleasing drama
Friday, Dec 4, 2009 1:04 AM UTC 14Entertainment Everybody's Fine, Movies
“Brothers”: A wartime romance for our turbulent era
Jake Gyllenhaal shines in an undeniably grown-up movie about love and loss in the shadow of Afghanistan
Thursday, Dec 3, 2009 1:03 AM UTC 22Entertainment Brothers, Movies
“The Road”: Post-apocalypse now
Director John Hillcoat and his star, Viggo Mortensen, improve on the mannered machismo of Cormac McCarthy's novel
Thursday, Nov 26, 2009 1:01 AM UTC 92Entertainment The Road, Movies
Cinematic genius meets teen heartthrob
A mighty cute Zac Efron plays the foil in Richard Linklater's affectionate ode to Orson Welles
Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009 1:23 AM UTCEntertainment Me and Orson Welles, Movies
“Ninja Assassin”: Sneaky but not subtle
Decapitations! Slashed eyeballs! But the finest effect in this visceral gouge of a picture is Korean pop star Rain
Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009 1:23 AM UTCEntertainment Ninja Assassin, Movies
“Bad Lieutenant”: So bad it’s good
Nicolas Cage plays one crazy-ass cop in Werner Herzog's loopy, cheerfully disreputable nonremake
Friday, Nov 20, 2009 12:20 AM UTC 10Entertainment
Clouds over “New Moon”
It might break box-office records, but this "Twilight" follow-up is a total bust
Friday, Nov 20, 2009 12:20 AM UTC 19Entertainment The Twilight Saga: New Moon
“Broken Embraces” and the ties that bind
Pedro Almodóvar gives us a gorgeous melodramatic fantasy about what it means to live for movies
Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 12:19 AM UTCEntertainment Broken Embraces
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Stephanie Zacharek has been writing regularly for Salon since January 1996 -- almost, but not quite, from its first issue. At that time she was a freelance writer, contributing articles on movies, pop music and books to numerous publications including Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Interview, the Village Voice and The
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