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Lisa Schwarzbaum

Critic, Entertainment Weekly and EW.com

Lisa joined EW in 1991 and became one of the magazine’s two movie critics in 1994. She also writes cultural essays and reviews books and theater. She is a member of the National Society of Film Critics, a past president of the New York Film Critics Circle, and has served a five-year term on the selection committee of the New York Film Festival.

Recent articles by Lisa Schwarzbaum

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Stage Review I'll Eat You Last
by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Apr 24, 2013

The curtain rises on the delicious one-woman show I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers ,…

Stage Review The Testament of Mary
by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Apr 23, 2013

The great Irish actress Fiona Shaw embodies the mother of Jesus in a provocative new play

Stage Review The Big Knife
by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Apr 16, 2013

Bobby Cannavale plays a conflicted movie star in a swanky revival of Clifford Odets 1940s Hollywood drama

Stage Review Lucky Guy
by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Apr 01, 2013

Tom Hanks stars in a lamentably dull play by the late Nora Ephron about a New York tabloid journalist

Movie Article Also Playing: March 22, 2013
by Chris Nashawaty, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Adam Markovitz, Owen Gleiberman, Melissa Maerz | Mar 15, 2013

Other movies out this weekend

Movie Article Also Playing: March 8, 2013
by Owen Gleiberman, Keith Staskiewicz, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Clark Collis, Adam Markovitz, Melissa Maerz | Mar 08, 2013

Other movies to check out, or not

Movie Article Also Playing: March 1 2013
by Clark Collis, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Chris Nashawaty, Owen Gleiberman, Keith Staskiewicz | Mar 01, 2013

Other movies to see in theater this weekend

Photo Gallery 10 epic Bible movies
by Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lanford Beard | Feb 24, 2013

The Good Book has inspired some mighty good films; we run down our favorites

Photo Gallery 10 epic Bible movies
by Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lanford Beard | Feb 24, 2013

The Good Book has inspired some mighty good films; we run down our favorites

Photo Gallery 10 epic Bible movies
by Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lanford Beard | Feb 24, 2013

The Good Book has inspired some mighty good films; we run down our favorites

Photo Gallery 10 epic Bible movies
by Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lanford Beard | Feb 24, 2013

The Good Book has inspired some mighty good films; we run down our favorites

Photo Gallery 10 epic Bible movies
by Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lanford Beard | Feb 24, 2013

The Good Book has inspired some mighty good films; we run down our favorites

Photo Gallery 10 epic Bible movies
by Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lanford Beard | Feb 24, 2013

The Good Book has inspired some mighty good films; we run down our favorites

Photo Gallery 10 epic Bible movies
by Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lanford Beard | Feb 24, 2013

The Good Book has inspired some mighty good films; we run down our favorites

Photo Gallery 10 epic Bible movies
by Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lanford Beard | Feb 24, 2013

The Good Book has inspired some mighty good films; we run down our favorites

Photo Gallery 10 epic Bible movies
by Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lanford Beard | Feb 24, 2013

The Good Book has inspired some mighty good films; we run down our favorites

Photo Gallery 10 epic Bible movies
by Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lanford Beard | Feb 24, 2013

The Good Book has inspired some mighty good films; we run down our favorites

Photo Gallery 10 epic Bible movies
by Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lanford Beard | Feb 24, 2013

The Good Book has inspired some mighty good films; we run down our favorites

Movie Article Movies: March 1 2013
by Owen Gleiberman, Adam Markovitz, Keith Staskiewicz, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Chris Nashawaty | Feb 22, 2013

Other movies to see this weekend

Inside Movies Lisa Schwarzbaum on loving movies, being a critic, engaging with you, and the beauty of agreeing to disagree
by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Feb 19, 2013 10:00 AM

Fourteen years after the fact, I still occasionally hear from readers angry that I didn’t like Fight Club.…