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Review of Klute (1971)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Nov 2015

The dread and unease that suffuse the film — never has the peal of a rotary phone sounded more terrifying — seem rooted partly in anxiety…

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Review of Twelve (2010)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Nov 2015

Though Crawford's bangs and facial hair are the most art-directed aspect of the movie, he's costumed to look like a member of the Trenchcoat…

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Review of The Royal Road (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Oct 2015

As personal as it is political, Olson's meditative project offers a profound lesson on intimacy and history — and the ways in which both…

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Review of Heart of a Dog (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 22 Oct 2015

A testament to Anderson's magnanimity, Heart of a Dog salutes not only those who gave her the greatest happiness but also those who long ago…

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Review of Heart of a Dog (1988)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 22 Oct 2015

A testament to Anderson's magnanimity, Heart of a Dog salutes not only those who gave her the greatest happiness but also those who long ago…

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Review of Heart of a Dog (1976)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 22 Oct 2015

A testament to Anderson's magnanimity, Heart of a Dog salutes not only those who gave her the greatest happiness but also those who long ago…

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Review of Room (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 20 Oct 2015

While Jack on the page exhausted me, I was amazed by the actor who plays him, Jacob Tremblay…

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Review of The Art of the Steal (2010)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Oct 2015

The Art of the Steal's thorough research, bolstered by many fiery talking heads, makes it one of the most successful advocacy docs in recent…

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Review of Experimenter (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 14 Oct 2015

Experimenter is admirably committed to being a film about ideas, to grappling with the legacy of a still topical study, and to tinkering with…

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Review of 35 Shots of Rum (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Oct 2015

35 Shots is Denis's warmest, most radiant work, honoring a family of two's extreme closeness while suggesting its potential for suffocation…

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Review of Easy A (2010)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Oct 2015

As far as teen comedies informed by 10th-grade English syllabi go, Easy A, partly inspired by The Scarlet Letter, is remedial ed compared with…

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Review of Listen to Me Marlon (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 27 Jul 2015

Much of the visual footage here -- the film-highlights reel, the Sacheen Littlefeather incident at the 1973 Academy Awards -- is already so…

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Review of Trainwreck (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 14 Jul 2015

I'm not sure who's most responsible for Trainwreck's ultimate timidity, for the mordant ribaldry evinced in the first half hour or so inexorably…

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Review of Lilith (1964)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Jul 2015

The story of Lilith - a man's love for a manipulative madwoman makes him go insane - may not be especially gripping, but the way that it's…

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Review of Lilith (2011)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Jul 2015

The story of Lilith - a man's love for a manipulative madwoman makes him go insane - may not be especially gripping, but the way that it's…

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Review of Lilith (2013)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Jul 2015

The story of Lilith - a man's love for a manipulative madwoman makes him go insane - may not be especially gripping, but the way that it's…

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Review of The Princess of France (2014)

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

The precise attachments, romantic or otherwise, among the constellation of characters may be deliberately confusing, but the performers themselves,…

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Review of Heaven Knows What (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 May 2015

In the thinly veiled version of her life that appears onscreen, the actress unforgettably shows the deadening toll of always being on the move,…

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Review of Love at First Fight (2014)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 May 2015

Rejuvenating the romantic comedy through its unusual premise — in which training for an elite army unit releases a flood of pheromones —…

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Review of Dior and I (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 09 Apr 2015

Though the film is unquestionably a flattering portrait of Simons, it is also more broadly, and more fruitfully, a testament to a tradition…

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