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Movie Reviews by Melissa Anderson - Page 14 of 20

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Review of Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Oct 2011

Constance Marks's documentary on Kevin Clash, the kind, gentle man who created the Muppet beloved by every single child in the world, rushes…

Review of Trespass (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Oct 2011

A home-invasion movie as instantly forgettable as its title, Trespass is not without disturbing images: namely, Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman…

Review of Heartbreaker (2010)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Sep 2011

There's trouble in Paradis-and in a script that prizes frenzy over any actual feeling…

Review of You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo (2010)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Sep 2011

You Don't Like the Truth focuses on the pathetic manipulations of Canadian intelligence officers as they interrogate Toronto-born Omar Khadr,…

Review of Mammuth (2010)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Sep 2011

Too limp and scattershot to warrant anything stronger than indifference…

Review of Take Shelter (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Sep 2011

Despite a few missteps, Take Shelter powerfully lays bare our national anxiety disorder - a pervasive dread that Curtis can define only as…

Review of Machine Gun Preacher (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Sep 2011

Machine Gun Preacher is the umpteenth onscreen iteration of a white savior aiding the most desperate in Africa…

Review of Thunder Soul (2010)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Sep 2011

Sometimes you just can't fight the funk; as much as you might resist the film's more maudlin scenes, not succumbing to the band's signature…

Review of I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Sep 2011

She is also played by Sarah Jessica Parker, a performer so aggressively determined to make us like her that no work-life conflicts in the film…

Review of We Were Here (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Sep 2011

A simple, powerful act of bearing witness, We Were Here is a sober reminder of the not-too-distant past, when gays were focused not on honeymoon…

Review of I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Aug 2011

Even with this blunt treatment of the material, Rottiers appears lost and unsure, never really settling into his overdetermined role…

Review of Higher Ground (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Aug 2011

Even with her beatific face (the actress looks like one of Parmigianino's Madonnas), Farmiga is never wholly believable as a woman shaken by…

Review of Circumstance (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Aug 2011

Keshavarz's earnest, well-intentioned first feature on women's oppression in Iran has trouble resisting its own heavy hand…

Review of Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Aug 2011

Lang's film, the last he made in the U.S., exposed the immorality of the death penalty; Hyams's retread offers only more plot and longer, louder…

Review of The Hedgehog (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Aug 2011

Watching Balasko, a veteran actor-writer-director in thick-browed, frumped-up drag, sitting at her kitchen table reading Tolstoy and nibbling…

Review of The Hedgehog (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Aug 2011

Watching Balasko, a veteran actor-writer-director in thick-browed, frumped-up drag, sitting at her kitchen table reading Tolstoy and nibbling…

Review of My One and Only (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Aug 2011

Occasionally diverting but ultimately forgettable, My One and Only will become unforgivable if it inspires other former competitors from Dancing…

Review of Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Aug 2011

In equal parts mesmerizing and disorienting, Over Your Cities (the title comes from the biblical story of Lilith) plunges viewers into the…

Review of The Interrupters (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Jul 2011

The Interrupters reminds us of the powers and pleasures of well-crafted, immersive nonfiction filmmaking…

Review of Friends with Benefits (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Jul 2011

What's most crushing is witnessing what should have been the dream pairing of Kunis and Timberlake - both foxy, loose, confident performers…

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