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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

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/6 54% Alpha Dog (2007) " The worst movie of the year." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
1/6 15% Hounddog (2008) " [Dakota Fanning's] willingness to please appears to have been grossly exploited by writer-director Deborah Kampmeier." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 17, 2008
1/6 71% Definitely, Maybe (2008) " 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
1/6 33% Self Medicated (2006) Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
1/6 53% Across the Universe (2007) Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
1/6 23% Slipstream (2007) " Slipstream fails miserably as a film about moviemaking, writing, REM sleep and historical atrocities." — Time Out New York
Posted Oct 25, 2007
1/6 93% Lake of Fire (2007) " This is not impartial filmmaking. This is manipulation." — Time Out New York
Posted Oct 25, 2007
1/6 41% No Reservations (2007) " [A] fatally bland star vehicle." — Time Out New York
Posted Jul 26, 2007
1/6 17% Georgia Rule (2007) " The film is unforgivable." — Time Out New York
Posted May 19, 2007
1/6 8% The Number 23 (2007) " It just adds up to sheer ineptitude." — Time Out New York
Posted Mar 3, 2007
1/6 9% Norbit (2007) " When Martin Lawrence and Tyler Perry play gals with sky-high BMI, at least their characters offer -- and are shown -- a certain amount of love and respect." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 17, 2007
1/6 19% Factory Girl (2007) " Factory Girl's greatest crime is transforming a scene and a personality that were all about movement and flamboyant brilliance into nothing but inert ventriloquism." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 10, 2007
1/6 12% The Messengers (2007) " The well-amplified scares are so perfunctory as to be laughable. 'What's up with the crows?' bitches Kristen Stewart, clearly not up on her Hitchcock or any Asian thriller of the past ten years." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 10, 2007
1/6 46% Bobby (2006) Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
1/6 28% Smokin' Aces (2007) " Not a fresh idea emerges from this risible exercise in muscle-car camerawork, squib-crazy shoot-outs and self-admiring pyrotechnics." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 3, 2007
1/5 93% Lake of Fire (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 33% Self Medicated (2006) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 71% Definitely, Maybe (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 17% Georgia Rule (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 15% Hounddog (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 23% Slipstream (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 53% Across the Universe (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 41% No Reservations (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
12% Love Ranch (2010) " Any performer, even a deity (and Dame) like Mirren, would struggle mightily to enliven a script this deadly." — Village Voice
Posted Jun 29, 2010
76% Let it Rain (Parlez-moi de la pluie) (2010) " A specialist in choreographing talky scenes, Agnès Jaoui may also be the most aggressively middlebrow filmmaker working today." — Village Voice
Posted Jun 15, 2010
83% Stonewall Uprising (2010) " The memories of those who were definitely there during those momentous days in late June are undeniably powerful... But are their voices best served by the messy documentary in which they appear?" — Village Voice
Posted Jun 15, 2010
45% Just Wright (2010) " That absolutely no chemistry exists between them as love interests is the first of the many flaws in a film that also demands we believe the New Jersey Nets could become Eastern Conference champions." — Village Voice
Posted May 11, 2010
29% The Good Heart (2010) " Kári's smug little arthouse offering ends up covered in Nicholas Sparks goo." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 27, 2010
41% Death at a Funeral (2010) " Rock's interventions can't compensate for excessive fealty to dumb gags." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 22, 2010
48% La MISSION (2010) " As subtle as a face-punch, La Mission nobly continues a necessary conversation about homophobia, but paves the way to hell with its own good intentions." — Village Voice
Posted Apr 6, 2010
85% The Square (2010) " This Down Under noir confuses incoherent body pileups with "twists."" — Village Voice
Posted Apr 6, 2010
19% The Last Song (2010) " The Cyrus machinery repels any believable human connection onscreen, though she's not helped much by Sparks and Van Wie's script." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Mar 31, 2010
0% Stolen Lives (2010) " In the lead-up to the inevitable connection, Anderson builds suspense around innumerable close-ups of telephone touchpads, liquids being spilled, [and] Lucas straining to be a credible hayseed." — Village Voice
Posted Mar 9, 2010
92% Prodigal Sons (2010) " Despite a fascinating midpoint revelation, Reed spends too much time capturing her sibling's terrifying outbursts, devoting the film's final act almost exclusively to his increasingly abject circumstances." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 23, 2010
50% Blood Done Sign My Name (2010) " Too often, the film props up caricatures and constructs in its superficial gloss on history." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 16, 2010
31% Happy Tears (2010) " Other than the guest-starring appearance of Cy Twombly canvases, nothing distinguishes this poor relation of The Savages from all the other emotionally fraudulent Amerindies about familial dysfunction and reconciliation." — Village Voice
Posted Feb 16, 2010
33% To Save a Life (2010) " To Save a Life is about as subtle as this closing credit: "The producers would like to thank: GOD."" — Village Voice
Posted Jan 19, 2010
13% The Spy Next Door (2010) " The Spy Next Door is immediately forgettable family entertainment, suitable for release only in the dung-heap month of January." — Village Voice
Posted Jan 12, 2010
38% Wonderful World (2010) " More impoverished than the budget is Wonderful World's script, a shopworn tale of redemption in which the constantly outraged, pot-puffing misanthrope learns that "magic is everywhere."" — Village Voice
Posted Jan 5, 2010
26% The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2009) " If Tennessee Williams's script for Joseph Losey's 1968 turkey Boom! saw the light of day, just how bad must a Williams screenplay unproduced for decades be?" — Village Voice
Posted Dec 30, 2009
60% Ricky (2009) " What Ricky lacks is a more thorough, consistent examination of maternal bonds." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 15, 2009
61% Brothers (2009) " [Sheridan] aims for Greek tragedy but ends up with a PTSD melodrama." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 2, 2009
24% Serious Moonlight (2009) " Serious Moonlight has a backstory much more intriguingly dramatic than what's onscreen." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 2, 2009
67% The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) " In this densely populated ensemble piece, Reeves stands out as the only actor whose damaged character evokes sympathy and avoids cliché." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 25, 2009
50% Mammoth (Mammut) (2009) " English, Tagalog, and Thai are spoken in Swedish writer-director Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth, but he communicates only in the idiom of Crash and Babel: the Esperanto of feel-bad humanism." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 17, 2009
66% The Blind Side (2009) " In every scene, Oher is instructed, lectured, comforted, or petted like a big puppy; he is merely a cipher." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 17, 2009
26% Women in Trouble (2009) " Women in Trouble awkwardly mixes blue material with sob stories." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 10, 2009
67% (Untitled) (2009) " (Untitled) tries to reignite who-gets-to-call-it-art debates that haven't been taken seriously for at least a decade." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 20, 2009
85% Black Dynamite (2009) " Nothing in Black Dynamite captures the exhilarating absurdity of Pam Grier hiding razors in her Afro in Coffy -- or the loony genre experimentation in Pootie Tang." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 14, 2009
94% Good Hair (2009) " [A] breezy, superficial doc." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 6, 2009
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