ROTTEN TOMATOES: Melissa Anderson

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

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

BEST REVIEWED
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6/6	Killer of Sheep
6/6	Pierrot Le Fou
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/6	Alpha Dog
1/6	Definitely, Maybe
1/6	Self-Medicated
1/6	Across the Universe
1/6	Lake of Fire
1/6	Slipstream
1/6	No Reservations
1/6	Georgia Rule
1/6	The Number 23
1/6	Norbit
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 66% of the time.

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2/6	"The tale of class-clashing lovers plays out predictably until the final act, which appears to have been inspired by Oscar Wilde�s observations that each man kills the thing he loves and nothing succeeds like excess." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 24, 2008	No Regret (2008)	50%
3/6	"The testimony of Normandy�s subjects is always fascinating; Philibert proves that not all directors should wade in the same river twice." -- Time Out New York Posted Jul 24, 2008	Back to Normandy (2008)	88%
5/6	"Nolot’s portrait of senescence isn’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	Before I Forget (2008)	88%
5/6	"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	La France (2007)	100%
4/6	"Filmmakers Marion Cajori (who died in 2006) and Amei Wallach are smart enough to grant us just the right amount of access to the great artist�s full range of emotions." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2008	Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine (2008)	91%
3/6	"Monica Ali�s rich, assured 2003 debut novel about the Bangladeshi Muslim diaspora in London is adequately served, but the decisions of cowriters Abi Morgan and Laura Jones too often turn Ali�s complex prose into the predictable." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 18, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	65%
3/6	"Chris & Don opts too often for the cute over the wrenching." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 11, 2008	Chris & Don: A Love Story (2008)	93%
3/6	"Derek Jarman, queer provocateur and one of British cinema�s most fearless directors of the past 40 years, rightfully receives the hagiographic treatment in Isaac Julien�s slender portrait." -- Time Out New York Posted Jun 5, 2008	Derek (2008)	n/a
3/6	"*It's nothing compared with Bruce Weber's homage to Frances Faye -- another singer's singer -- in 2001's Chop Suey." -- Time Out New York* Posted Jun 5, 2008	'Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris (2007)	88%
2/6	"This oedipal docudrama, spanning 1946 to 1972, presents its scandalous material as a banal travelogue through eras and exotic resorts." -- Time Out New York Posted May 29, 2008	Savage Grace (2008)	41%
4/6	"The Edge of Heaven ultimately triumphs over its overdetermined structure through the sheer power of its performers and the pleasures of some of its plot threads." -- Time Out New York Posted May 21, 2008	The Edge of Heaven (2008)	89%
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)	68%
3/6	"Luc�a 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)	73%
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)	62%
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%
3/6	"C�line 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)	78%
3/6	"Where Michael Clayton assumed the viewers� utter na�vet� 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 (2008)	73%
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)	75%
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%
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)	24%
3/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 31, 2008	The Witnesses (2008)	85%
2/6	"No one gets served as much as waited on." -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 24, 2008	How She Move (2008)	66%
3/6	"Daniel Karslake�s doc on the extent to which Christian families have embraced their gay children does an admirably thorough job of assembling smart talking heads and personal archives." -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 24, 2008	For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)	98%
3/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	El Cantante (2007)	24%
3/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	Juno (2007)	93%
1/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	Self-Medicated (2007)	35%
4/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	Terror's Advocate (2007)	84%
2/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	The Nanny Diaries (2007)	34%
2/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	The Bubble (2006)	38%
5/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)	85%
1/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008	Across the Universe (2007)	54%
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)	40%
5/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Jan 3, 2008	Fanny and Alexander (1982)	100%
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)	84%
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)	54%
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)	34%
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%
1/6	"This is not impartial filmmaking. This is manipulation." -- Time Out New York Posted Oct 25, 2007	Lake of Fire (2007)	94%
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%
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%
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%
2/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Oct 6, 2007	Banished (2007)	n/a
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%
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%
2/6	Click here to read article -- Time Out New York Posted Sep 22, 2007	The Secret Life of Words (2006)	69%
2/6	"Aggressively derivative." -- Time Out New York Posted Sep 22, 2007	Brooklyn Rules (2007)	49%
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)	56%
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)	91%
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%
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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