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Movie Reviews by Melissa Anderson - Page 11 of 20

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Review of Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Jun 2012

In trying through incessant narration to make a six-year-old a prolix sage, Zeitlin can't avoid falling into sticky sentimentality…

Review of Ted (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Jun 2012

It's dispiriting enough to witness Kunis still waiting for a comic lead role worthy of her…

Review of Brave (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Jun 2012

The animation studio's first film with a female protagonist, a defiant lass who acts as a much-welcome corrective to retrograde Disney heroines…

Review of Your Sister's Sister (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Jun 2012

As Alex Ross Perry's The Color Wheel - another micro-budgeted sibling story - shows, a film about relentlessly repellent characters is much…

Review of Americano (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Jun 2012

Americano, which Demy also wrote and stars in, is an ambivalent, occasionally touching work of homage to his parents, yet one whose clumsiness…

Review of Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jun 2012

An incompetently structured film that pits hippies against squares with the usual wearying results…

Review of The Harder They Come (1972)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jun 2012

The definitive postcolonial cult-movie musical…

Review of Oslo, August 31st (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 May 2012

Matching the precision of the film's title, remembrances of things past-whether destructive or salutary, quickly mentioned or dilated upon-are…

Review of Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog (2004)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

When isn't it a good time to show a movie tracing the development of a kind, charismatic yellow Labrador retriever from frolicsome puppy to…

Review of Hysteria (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

Proceeds as a tedious, clumsy diddle, constantly reminding viewers how much progress has been made since the Victorian era…

Review of Girl in Progress (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 May 2012

Unconvincing, flawed matriarch Mendes and junior showboat Ramirez appear to be acting in entirely different movies…

Review of City Island (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Apr 2012

An affectionate portrait of a lower-middle-class, outer-borough clan, City Island works best as an actor's showcase, with Margulies's aggrieved,…

Review of The Five-Year Engagement (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Apr 2012

There is exactly one unexpected moment in the otherwise drearily predictable The Five-Year Engagement that, though little more than a throwaway…

Review of Marley (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Apr 2012

Thoroughly researched and packed with phenomenal archival footage, it's a rousing tribute to a mesmerizing performer that forgoes blind hero worship…

Review of Think Like a Man (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Apr 2012

Enduring a day-long session of couples' therapy is more fun (and flies by faster) than this film…

Review of Darling Companion (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Apr 2012

The handsome pooch is also the only appealing aspect of the latest tale of privileged boomer pulse-taking from Lawrence Kasdan…

Review of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Apr 2012

Above all, it will make you long for a day when studio movies about relationships feel like they are by and for adults who have actually been in one…

Review of The Lady (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Apr 2012

Impersonally directed by cinéma du look pioneer Luc Besson, The Lady was written by first-timer Rebecca Frayn, whose script has all the elegance…

Review of L!fe Happens (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Apr 2012

L…

Review of We Have a Pope (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Apr 2012

Until the potent concluding scene, the humor and shallow profundities of We Have a Pope pivot on the cuteness of geriatrics, especially when…

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