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Review of She's Lost Control (2014)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 18 Mar 2015

Too often, She's Lost Control hazily drifts from scene to scene, invested in examining the exhausted topic of what happens when a sex professional…

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Review of Amour Fou (2015)

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

Henriette's last thought will forever be a mystery, but the grandeur of Romanticism is tartly, pleasingly demystified…

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Review of Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 13 Mar 2015

The film, especially in its second half, after Kumiko lands at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, is resolutely more invested…

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Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 12 Feb 2015

In the interest of consumer reporting, I'll say this: The book isn't better than the movie, and the film isn't better than the book…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 12 Feb 2015

In the interest of consumer reporting, I'll say this: The book isn't better than the movie, and the film isn't better than the book…

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Review of Girlhood (2014)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 29 Jan 2015

Sciamma has a particular gift for spectacular opening scenes…

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Review of Stonewall Uprising (2010)

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

Tellingly, it's not the queers, but a cop--Seymour Pine, the 90-year-old retired NYPD morals inspector who led the raid on the Stonewall Inn--who…

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Review of Joy of Man's Desiring (2015)

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

Undeniably, the rhythms — of clanging machines, of humans at work and repose — seen and heard here are the tempo of the quotidian and the…

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Review of Selma (2014)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 22 Dec 2014

A large part of Selma's success is rooted in Oyelowo's superb, nuanced portrayal of a figure held to be a near deity…

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Review of If You Don't, I Will (2014)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 17 Dec 2014

The loose confidence on display throughout much of If You Don't, I Will helps make the material, however frequently (and often enervatingly)…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 01 Dec 2014

Writer-director Jennifer Kent's domestic-horror movie The Babadook satisfyingly pierces the obscene sanctification of mommyhood -- a pathological…

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Review of Pontypool (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Nov 2014

For a film about the perils of too much talk, there's quite a lot of babbling presented as profundity…

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Review of Endgame (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Oct 2014

The principals, especially Ejiofor, rise above the starchiness that often hampers portrayals of recent, monumental history…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 30 Sep 2014

Fincher's adaptation bears all of the filmmaker's trademark precision, his impeccable ability to conjure dread in the most seemingly benign…

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Review of Bird People (2014)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Sep 2014

Firmly rooted in everyday particulars — primarily the transactions (business, emotional, or otherwise) facilitated by the time- and space-obliterating…

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Review of River of Grass (1995)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Jul 2014

Reichardt pays clear homage to Breathless and Badlands, but her movie, the title of which is a local name for the Everglades, operates in its…

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Review of Tristana (1970)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 09 Jul 2014

One of the greatest films from Buñuel's extremely rich late period…

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Review of Yves Saint Laurent (2014)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 25 Jun 2014

Like off-the-rack clothing, this study of a remarkable talent and relationship follows standard patterns…

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Review of Night Moves (2014)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 29 May 2014

What remains constant is Reichardt's ability to coolly present thorny sociopolitical and moral issues…

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Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 21 May 2014

Despite the cadaverous appearance of its lead actor, Dallas Buyers Club wants to be pretty, too, presenting a tidy, uplifting history of the…

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