Melissa Maerz
Melissa Maerz's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Entertainment Weekly
CNN.com
Movies reviews only
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Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors (2015) |
To paraphrase something Parton once said about herself: It may look fake, but it's real where it counts. What counts most is the acting, which lends the story a naturalism that the script can't. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Dec 14, 2015
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The Wiz Live! (2015) |
You can blame nostalgia for the original musical. But even if you don't believe it's a brand new day, it's nice to still love the old one. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Dec 04, 2015
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Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart (2014) |
I still don't know if Smart is innocent. No one outside the case ever will. But watching Captivated certainly made me reconsider why I assumed she was guilty in the first place. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Aug 21, 2015
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Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015) |
If Going Clear were a Hollywood thriller, I'd complain that it's too over-the-top. But this is real life, which is mind-blowing, and as a documentary, it's disturbingly good. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Mar 13, 2015
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Cake (2014) |
The smaller scenes that focus on the everyday reality of depression stick with you ... - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jan 21, 2015
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Laggies (2014) |
What saves Laggies is Knightley, who's all gangly limbs and pouty faces, schlepping around in pajamas, acting exactly like a teenager trapped in a grown-up world. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Oct 22, 2014
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013) |
Disappearance is worth watching for Chastain's fierce performance as a woman swallowed up by bone-deep grief. If we can feel exactly what Eleanor is feeling, maybe we're not so alone after all. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Sep 10, 2014
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Tracks (2013) |
Like Davidson herself, this lush adaptation from director John Curran (The Painted Veil) is remarkable for accomplishing so much with so little. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Sep 10, 2014
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The Calling (2014) |
There's one scene in this serial-killer drama that may haunt you, especially if you have a thing about corpses' mouths (shiver). - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Aug 28, 2014
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Fed Up (2014) |
Some lessons are overfamiliar (almonds good, corn syrup bad), but the section on corporate influence over school lunches is enough to make you spit out that 20-ounce soda from the concession stand. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted May 08, 2014
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Upstream Color (2013) |
If the movie is a bit of a mystery, so is Carruth. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Dec 17, 2013
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Sound City (2013) |
Dave Grohl's terrific new doc, Sound City, profiles the studio where some of the greatest music of the past four decades was born. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Dec 16, 2013
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Lovelace (2013) |
Reduces her troubled life to scenes of sex and violence so cartoonish they should've been relegated to a hair-metal video. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Aug 07, 2013
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Ginger & Rosa (2012) |
Teenagers do horrible things to each other in the name of their ''ideals.'' But adults do too, which is so much worse. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Mar 13, 2013
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