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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
MELISSA ANDERSON
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• Time Out
• Time Out New York
• Village Voice

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Total Reviews: 113


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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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6/6 Pierrot Le Fou
5/6 Shortbus
4/6 Shut Up & Sing
3/6 The Science of Sleep
2/6 Stomp the Yard
1/6 Smokin' Aces
0/6 Alpha Dog
 
 
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6/6 Killer of Sheep
6/6 Pierrot Le Fou
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0/6 Alpha Dog
1/6 Definitely, Maybe
1/6 Self-Medicated
1/6 Across the Universe
1/6 Slipstream
1/6 Lake of Fire
1/6 No Reservations
1/6 Georgia Rule
1/6 The Number 23
1/6 Norbit
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 66% of the time.

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2/6
 
"Anna Biller’s pseudofeminist send-up of the sexploitation movies of the late ’60s and early ’70s remains as limp as the flaccid dongs at her film’s nudist sing-along." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Viva (2008)63%
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3/6
 
"Lucía Puenzo’s first film, a coming-of-age tale about Alex (Efron), an intersex 15-year-old referred to usually by female pronouns, is a noble addition to the genre, but becomes too hermetically sealed by its own social-outreach mission." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
XXY (2008)71%
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3/6
 
"Had Fey written the script, would the ending have been such a cop-out?" -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)60%
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2/6
 
"Pitched at deafening hysteria, Chris Kraus’s film might have fared better in moderato." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Four Minutes (2007)76%
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3/6
 
"Céline Sciamma’s feature debut about erupting desire among a trio of 15-year-old girls during a languorous summer in a Paris suburb shows several strokes of intelligence but is ultimately drowned by its anhedonic view." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Water Lilies (2007)83%
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3/6
 
"Where Michael Clayton assumed the viewers’ utter naïveté regarding corporate malfeasance, Heartbeat Detector’s corrosive look at business culture rests on too overdetermined -- and at times outlandish -- a premise." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Heartbeat Detector (2007)75%
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5/6
 
"Van Sant has created his most compassionate film about a lost boy since My Own Private Idaho." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
Paranoid Park (2008)76%
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1/6
 
"In the end, the only intersex conflict is that between a 31-year-old dim hunk and an 11-year-old moppet fighting for fame. How romantic." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 13, 2008
 
Definitely, Maybe (2008)72%
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2/6
 
"Nominally a one-star film, I’ll add another just for the supreme pleasure of seeing Mo’Nique beat the bejesus out of her arrogant costar." -- Time Out New York
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)25%
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3/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 31, 2008
 
The Witnesses (2008)85%
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2/6
 
"No one gets served as much as waited on." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
How She Move (2008)68%
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3/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)93%
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3/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
El Cantante (2007)23%
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3/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Juno (2007)93%
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1/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Self-Medicated (2007)35%
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4/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Terror's Advocate (2007)84%
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2/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
The Nanny Diaries (2007)34%
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2/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
The Bubble (2006)38%
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5/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)83%
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1/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Across the Universe (2007)53%
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3/6
 
"They’re no Hepburn and Tracy, but Heigl -- her quivering double chin a welcome sight in a profession of dangerously low BMI -- and Marsden skillfully find the believable traits in their characters and turn them into some semblance of adults." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 17, 2008
 
27 Dresses (2008)39%
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5/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 3, 2008
 
Fanny and Alexander (1982)100%
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4/6
 
"Yu displays keen instincts for assembling disparate parts that viewers will be completely engrossed in the narratives of her subjects and just may wish to brush up on Bacchae." -- Time Out New York
Posted Nov 29, 2007
 
Protagonist (2007)83%
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2/6
 
"Like sock-it-to-me cake ruined by too much sugar, This Christmas is cloying empty calories." -- Time Out New York
Posted Nov 22, 2007
 
This Christmas (2007)53%
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5/6
 
"Southland Tales is one of the smartest, funniest, most audacious -- and most mournful -- films of the year." -- Time Out New York
Posted Nov 14, 2007
 
Southland Tales (2007)35%
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2/6
 
"Imagining an artist’s life as little more than a series of portentous set pieces, [director] Ruiz, who also wrote the script, has made a film that is neither portrait nor allegory but empty ornamentalism." -- Time Out New York
Posted Nov 12, 2007
 
Klimt (2006)29%
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1/6
 
"This is not impartial filmmaking. This is manipulation." -- Time Out New York
Posted Oct 25, 2007
 
Lake of Fire (2007)94%
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1/6
 
"Slipstream fails miserably as a film about moviemaking, writing, REM sleep and historical atrocities." -- Time Out New York
Posted Oct 25, 2007
 
Slipstream (2007)24%
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2/6
 
"Faulting Tyler Perry for his nonsensical, melodramatic plots is a little like accusing Douglas Sirk of using too much color." -- Time Out New York
Posted Oct 18, 2007
 
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? (2007)47%
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2/6
 
"Emotionally fraudulent was the phrase that kept rattling around in my head as I watched the latest chapter in the Interminable American Narrative of Forgiving, Redemption and Understanding." -- Time Out New York
Posted Oct 18, 2007
 
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)65%
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2/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Oct 6, 2007
 
Banished (2007)n/a
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2/6
 
"Marco Williams’s latest investigation into race relations suggests, seemingly without intending to, how much the language of pop psychology has vitiated our nation’s discourse on the atrocities committed on its soil." -- Time Out New York
Posted Sep 27, 2007
 
Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America (2007)85%
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3/6
 
"As with all banner-head stories, there comes a point when you tire of being screamed at." -- Time Out New York
Posted Sep 22, 2007
 
Crazy Love (2007)78%
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2/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Sep 22, 2007
 
The Secret Life of Words (2006)69%
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2/6
 
"Aggressively derivative." -- Time Out New York
Posted Sep 22, 2007
 
Brooklyn Rules (2007)50%
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3/6
 
"Too much emphasis is placed on wall text that swirls around like the worst Magnetic Poetry." -- Time Out New York
Posted Sep 20, 2007
 
The Man of My Life (2007)59%
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5/6
 
"Ultimately the film says that fate has a way of kicking you up a notch, if you can somehow let yourself rise to the occasion." -- Time Out New York
Posted Sep 15, 2007
 
Knocked Up (2007)90%
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3/6
 
"Sometimes the path of excess leads not to the tower of wisdom, but to exhaustion." -- Time Out New York
Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Private Property (2006)69%
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2/6
 
"With all apologies to Liza Minnelli, Bratz with a z simply goes zzzzz…" -- Time Out New York
Posted Aug 10, 2007
 
Bratz: The Movie (2007)7%
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1/6
 
"[A] fatally bland star vehicle." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jul 26, 2007
 
No Reservations (2007)39%
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2/6
 
"Chuck & Larry wants it both ways, indulging in ass obsession and the lamest queer stereotypes since Franklin Pangborn was in short pants, then hoisting the rainbow flag at half-mast in a panicky cry for tolerance." -- Time Out
Posted Jul 19, 2007
 
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007)14%
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4/6
 
"Set against Argentina’s financial meltdown in 2001, Jorge Gaggero’s impressive debut delicately dissects class conflict and friendship." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jul 19, 2007
 
Live-In Maid (2004)100%
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5/6
 
"Persepolis is much more than a history lesson; it's also the story of a misunderstood girl -- one who will certainly give Juno MacGuff a run for her money as the year's best teenage heroine." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jul 19, 2007
 
Persepolis (2007)95%
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4/6
 
"Rings true to anyone who’s ever moped and yearned." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
In Between Days (2006)84%
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2/6
 
"Dumb instincts dominate One to Another, whose comely performers don’t so much act as erupt." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
One to Another (2007)47%
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4/6
 
"Dahan makes us wait for the cathartic release until the very end; the effect is not manipulative but absolutely exhilarating." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jun 23, 2007
 
La Vie En Rose (2007)74%
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3/6
 
"Far from the uplifting sports pictures churned out by Disney, White Palms wallows instead in humiliation rituals, psychic scars and too much time-shifting." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jun 23, 2007
 
White Palms (2007)89%
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3/6
 
"A frustratingly routine hagiography of someone most of us think we know all about, this doc respectfully summarizes the life of Nazi tracker Simon Wiesenthal without ever going too deep." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jun 9, 2007
 
I Have Never Forgotten You (2007)81%
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4/6
 
"Van Sant would later refine some of the blunter stylistic turns into a wondrous visual poetry; his ability to capture the addictive pull of desire, however, remains compelling even in its crudest state." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jun 2, 2007
 
Mala Noche (1985)94%
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2/6
 
"This sequel reprises the original’s conceit that if you just throw a lot of cool fantasy ballyhoo together, who cares if coherence becomes collateral damage? [This] is what you’d imagine it’s like being stuck inside the head of a geeky 12-year-old boy." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jun 2, 2007
 
Day Watch (2007)65%

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