Steven Rea

Steven Rea has been an Inquirer movie critic since 1992. He was born in London, raised in New York City, and has lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Iowa City, Iowa. His column, "On Movies," appears Sundays in Arts & Entertainment, his reviews appear in the Weekend section on Fridays, and his blog, On Movies Online, can be found here. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics.

He also curates the movie stars and bicycling photo blog, Rides A Bike.

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By Steven Rea, Inquirer Columnist

01/13/2013

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'Emotionally frazzled' Chastain reflects on role as bin Laden hunter 01/02/2013: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

Steven Rea: "But playing Rachel Singer made me feel like I could play a badass woman. Because, in addition to Rachel's vulnerability, she really could stand her own with men."
'Zero Dark Thirty' screenwriters succeed with tricky balancing act 12/28/2012: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Columnist

NEW YORK - On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Kathryn Bigelow was in an editing room, in post-production on K-19: The Widowmaker, her Russian nuclear sub thriller, when word of the attack on the twin towers reached her.
Not Fade Away 12/27/2012: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

Cigarettes and penny loafers, long hair and skinny jeans, pea coats and pot. And the Beatles, the Stones, and Dylan.
Movies: Matt Damon stars in 'Promised Land' 12/27/2012: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

'I'm not a bad guy," the guy played by Matt Damon in Promised Land insists.
The Top 10 worst films of 2012 12/27/2012: They could have fed a Third World nation, or poured money into cancer research, or tried saving those polar bears stuck on itty-bitty ice floes. But no-o-o-o-o, Hollywood had better things to do with its hundreds of millions of dollars, like letting Adam Sandler make That's My Boy, and thinking we needed a remake of Red Dawn.
Everything 'Les Miserables' fans want 12/25/2012: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

A version of this review appeared in Sunday's Arts + Entertainment section. When last seen, British director Tom Hooper had just overseen a historical biography about a stammering monarch, someone who felt ill-equipped to take the throne, a chap who couldn't get a sentence out without scrunching up in agony. The King's Speech, a runaway success.
'Django' is a gabby cartoon shoot-'em-up 12/25/2012: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

A version of this review appeared in Sunday's Arts + Entertainment section. Neck-deep into Quentin Tarantino's antebellum western Django Unchained, I had this mental image of the über-geek genre filmmaker tapping furiously on his laptop, beaming at the brilliance of every new piece of dialogue he's writ.
Funny, filthy, careful, compassionate 12/21/2012: Our film critic's choice of the good, the great, and the 10 best of 2012.

By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

When you hear the sound of thunder, Don't you get too scared. Just grab your thunder buddy And say these magic words . . .
The 'D' is silent; Quentin is not in 'Unchained' 12/21/2012: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

Django Unchained tells the tale of a stoic slave, his back crosshatched with whip scars, who is offered his freedom if he helps a German-born bounty hunter track down an infamous band of brothers with whom Django has had firsthand experience.
'Les Mis' will please its legions 12/21/2012: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

Steven Rea: Based on Victor Hugo's hefty classic, this big-budget movie musical summons the mighty forces of CGI to create vast tableaux of castles and monasteries, shipyards and slums, France in the tumultuous first half of the 19th century.