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Melissa Anderson

Melissa Anderson

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

Publications:
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul , L.A. Weekly , Time Out , Time Out New York , Variety , Village Voice
Total Reviews:
452

Best Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
5/5 77% Paranoid Park (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 86% W. R.: Mysteries of the Organism (W.R. - Misterije organizma) (1971) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 88% Wild Style (1983) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 84% Pierrot le Fou (Pierrot Goes Wild) (Crazy Pete) (1969) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 93% La France (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 88% Stellet Licht (Silent Light) (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 95% Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) (1999) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 87% In Between Days (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 87% Avant que j'Oublie (Before I Forget) (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
5/5 100% Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) (1982) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
6/6 97% Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection (2007) " [A] perfect film." — Time Out New York
Posted Mar 31, 2007
6/6 84% Pierrot le Fou (Pierrot Goes Wild) (Crazy Pete) (1969) " Unmissable." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 9, 2006
5/6 88% Wild Style (1983) " Wild Style is just as important a New York City musical as On the Town, so vital and exuberant are its scenes of a burgeoning cultural moment." — Time Out New York
Posted Nov 12, 2008
5/6 95% Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) (1999) " Often overlooked, Truffaut's wonderful second film stars Charles Aznavour, master of the chanson, in his only collaboration with the director." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 4, 2008
5/6 87% Avant que j'Oublie (Before I Forget) (2008) " Nolotâ(TM)s portrait of senescence isnâ(TM)t about rainbow visions; his film, one of the most honest, courageous and witty of the year, instead looks at decay, insufferable loss and humiliation--all endured...with defiant, wilfull abjection." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 16, 2008
5/6 93% La France (2008) " A drama about the horrors, loneliness and camaraderie of World War I that intermittently (four times, to be specific) blooms into a delirious musical." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 9, 2008
5/6 77% Paranoid Park (2007) " 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
5/6 86% W. R.: Mysteries of the Organism (W.R. - Misterije organizma) (1971) Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
5/6 100% Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) (1982) " Our young protagonist will be obsessed with death and see ghosts everywhere. Never has the prison of childhood seemed so inescapable." — Time Out New York
Posted Jan 3, 2008
5/6 35% Southland Tales (2007) " 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
5/6 90% Knocked Up (2007) " 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
5/6 97% Persepolis (2007) " 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
5/6 85% Les Amants reguliers (Regular Lovers) (2005) Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
5/6 66% Shortbus (2006) Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
4/5 94% Milk (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 86% L' Avocat de la Terreur (Terror's Advocate) (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 93% The Betrayal - Nerakhoon (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 89% Auf der Anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven) (On the Other Side) (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 100% Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 100% Live-in Maid (Cama adentro) (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 100% Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 79% A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 89% Il y a Longtemps que Je T'aime (I've Loved You So Long) (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 82% Protagonist (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 74% La Vie en Rose (La Mome) (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 88% Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 58% Zoo (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 79% A Mighty Heart (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
85% Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010) " [Davis'] homage -- tender, never hagiographic -- also contains some biting analysis of the racism, both overt and insidious, that the artist was up against." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 20, 2010
80% I Am Love (2010) " Luca Guadagnino's visually ravishing third feature suggests an epic that Visconti and Sirk might have made after they finished watching Vertigo and reading Madame Bovary while gorging themselves on aphrodisiacs." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Jun 15, 2010
81% Solitary Man (2010) " The film courageously shows its reprobate hero sliding further, not redeeming himself." — Village Voice
Posted May 18, 2010
98% The Red Shoes (1948) " The greatest film about ballet ever made." — L.A. Weekly
Posted May 13, 2010
100% Have You Heard from Johannesburg?: Apartheid and the Club of the West (2010) " Connie Field's documentary on apartheid and its defeat is a triumph of maximalist filmmaking." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 14, 2010
81% City Island (2010) " An affectionate portrait of a lower-middle-class, outer-borough clan, City Island works best as an actor's showcase, with Margulies's aggrieved, simmering wife the stand-out." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 16, 2010
84% The Art Of The Steal (2010) " The Art of the Steal presents its aesthetes versus Phila-stines argument cogently, convincingly, and engagingly." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 23, 2010
28% Dear John (2010) " The biggest surprise here is Tatum, whose butch reticence has never been put to better use: His saddest farewell isn't to his lady but to a man even more uncommunicative than he is." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 12, 2010
100% Word is Out - Stories of Some of Our Lives (1992) " [An] extraordinary, groundbreaking documentary." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 26, 2010
41% 44 Inch Chest (2010) " [An] often sharp, nasty exposé of masculinity." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 14, 2010
96% Sweetgrass (2009) " Though the breathtaking vistas of Big Sky Country in Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor's unforgettable sheep-herding documentary come close to heaven, it's telling that AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" can be faintly heard." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 5, 2010
100% Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (Trial of Joan of Arc) (1962) " A new way to access and appreciate history's most remarkable adolescent visionary." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 15, 2009
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