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Movie Reviews by Melissa Anderson - Page 9 of 20

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Review of Side Effects (2015)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Feb 2013

Side Effects points out, but never didactically, just how broken our systems have become, whether medical, governmental, or economic…

Review of Side Effects (2013)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Feb 2013

If Side Effects, an immensely pleasurable thriller centering around psychotropic drugs, really is Steven Soderbergh's final big-screen film,…

Review of Yossi (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Jan 2013

For many of the film's brisk 84 minutes, Fox eclipses his earlier work-and several other same-sex tragedies-by immersing us in his protagonist's…

Review of Mama (2013)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Jan 2013

Mama never delivers the primal terror its premise would suggest…

Review of LUV (2013)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Jan 2013

Although Common and Rainey make a well-matched duo, their chemistry is frequently squandered by a script that boxes them into impossible roles…

Review of The Impossible (2012)

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

These horrors, and the absorbing performances of Watts and McGregor, will soon be undermined by a surfeit of sentiment…

Review of Barbara (2012)

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

A transfixing Cold War thriller set in the East Germany of 1980, Christian Petzold's superb Barbara is made even more vivid by its subtle overlay…

Review of Save the Date (2012)

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

Unremarkable, thinly sketched characters, many adorned with creative careers or hobbies, populate the romantic dramedy Save the Date, yet another…

Review of Any Day Now (2012)

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

Straining for teachable moments, the film has one noteworthy, unintentional function: to remind us that though LGBT rights are continually…

Review of Playing for Keeps (2012)

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

Yet it's not entirely forgettable…

Review of Lay the Favorite (2012)

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

Screeches and scrambles from scene to scene with manic sitcom energy, much like the cherished pet hamster of one of its characters…

Review of Love, Marilyn (2013)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Nov 2012

Fifty years after her death, the actress's corpse is still being picked over with ever-diminishing returns, as evidenced in Liz Garbus's garish,…

Review of Rust and Bone (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Nov 2012

Audiard himself might have benefited from a simple reminder of left from right; his rudderless film confuses a pileup of preposterous, sentimental…

Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Nov 2012

It's about as exciting as watching David Blaine play Stratego and makes you miss the power of the first four films all the more: the uncontainable…

Review of Starlet (2012)

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

Director Sean Baker, co-writing his fourth feature with Chris Bergoch, does some deft balancing of his own: His genuine admiration for these…

Review of Vamps (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Nov 2012

Reteaming with Silverstone, the alpha matchmaker of Clueless, for Vamps, Heckerling uses the actress as the mouthpiece for her complaints about…

Review of The Business of Fancydancing (2002)

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

Seymour returns to the Spokane Indian Reservation after a 16-year absence for a friend's funeral…

Review of The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965 (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Oct 2012

Charlie Is My Darling captures the quintet at their most impossibly vernal and beautiful…

Review of The Sessions (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Oct 2012

Hawkes and Hunt nobly tackle the physical demands their roles require…

Review of Holy Motors (2012)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Oct 2012

Unclassifiable, expansive, and breathtaking…

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