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Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 May 2016

Guadagnino inserts a plot thread indicting Europe's response to the migrant crisis, shoehorning an issue of utmost gravity into a pulpy sex…

Review of Eva Hesse (2016)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Apr 2016

Eva Hesse relies too heavily on ventriloquism to recapitulate the high and low points of the artist…

Review of Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Apr 2016

The film too often relies on rote sermonizing when tackling the city's scourge of shootings, a grave topic that The Next Cut is simply too…

Review of Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Apr 2016

Each chapter of Mapplethorpe's biography - his Catholic boyhood in Queens, his renowned romances with Patti Smith and the collector Sam Wagstaff,…

Review of The Boss (2016)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Apr 2016

The Boss is a better film than Tammy, but it still flounders, almost capsizing in its sloppy final third…

Review of Blue Velvet (1986)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Mar 2016

Three decades after its initial release, David Lynch's Blue Velvet has lost none of its power to derange, terrify, and exhilarate…

Review of Valley of Love (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Mar 2016

Isabelle and Gérard's regrets and laments about their parenting skills betray no bone-deep rue or shame but are delivered with all the conviction…

Review of Creative Control (2016)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Mar 2016

This toothless, silken-looking satire takes aim at easy targets: white Williamsburg ennui, technology, yoga…

Review of Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Mar 2016

An earnest, if inert, civil rights docudrama clearly shot on the cheap (many of the wigs appear to have been borrowed from the Black Dynamite set)…

Review of Late Spring (2014)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2016

Movies resurrect the beautiful dead, Susan Sontag once wrote, and there's no better way to commemorate Hara than to watch her in Late Spring,…

Review of Late Spring (1949)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2016

Movies resurrect the beautiful dead, Susan Sontag once wrote, and there's no better way to commemorate Hara than to watch her in Late Spring,…

Review of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2016

The mild Islamophobia and highly questionable casting choices in the film call to mind other texting abbreviations, namely AYFKMWTS and GTFOOH…

Review of Zoolander 2 (2016)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Feb 2016

Wiig's cheering presence in an otherwise depleting project/cross-promoted product highlights the fact that Zoolander 2 is a referendum on dying…

Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Feb 2016

The brothers' latest also has a certain buoyancy...The fizziness, though, proves fleeting, and Hail, Caesar! too often goes flat…

Review of Joy (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Dec 2015

Russell enthusiasts — and I consider myself one — often applaud the director's abiding interest in the messiness of his characters' lives,…

Review of 45 Years (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Dec 2015

With 45 Years, [Haigh] has created not only a searching examination of a long-term marriage — and the myths that sustain it — but also…

Review of My Name Is Khan (2010)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 21 Dec 2015

For a movie that preaches cultural understanding, it sometimes seems a little too comfortable perpetuating ethnic stereotypes…

Review of Stinking Heaven (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Dec 2015

Never a banal depiction of dysfunctional group dynamics, Stinking Heaven, which was shaped, as in Silver's previous work, largely through improvisation,…

Review of The Big Short (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Dec 2015

McKay's bumptious movie awkwardly combines fourth-wall-breaking gimmickry and flaccid indignation with the goofball energy that defines his comedies…

Review of The Danish Girl (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 25 Nov 2015

Reducing a remarkable life and marriage to stultifying solemnity, Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl might be most charitably thought of as a public-service…

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