Melissa Anderson, Village Voice
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For 270 reviews, this critic has graded:
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26% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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70% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.3 points lower than other critics.
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Melissa Anderson's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 88 out of 270
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Mixed: 141 out of 270
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Negative: 41 out of 270
270
movie reviews
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Melissa Anderson 30
Proceeds as a tedious, clumsy diddle, constantly reminding viewers how much progress has been made since the Victorian era.- Posted May 15, 2012
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Melissa Anderson 30
Hoariest of all are the exhortations to make distinctions between "fiction" and "life."- Posted Sep 9, 2012
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Melissa Anderson 30
A sprawling mess of multiple romantic triangles in which all the angles are obtuse.- Posted Aug 14, 2012
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Melissa Anderson 30
Of sole interest is Benoît Magimel's Vincent, who sheepishly confesses a same-sex attraction to one in the cabal; his moments on-screen provide the only break from this slog.- Posted Aug 21, 2012
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Melissa Anderson 30
Audiard himself might have benefited from a simple reminder of left from right; his rudderless film confuses a pileup of preposterous, sentimental scenarios with genuine emotion.- Posted Nov 20, 2012
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Melissa Anderson 30
Screeches and scrambles from scene to scene with manic sitcom energy, much like the cherished pet hamster of one of its characters.- Posted Dec 4, 2012
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Melissa Anderson 30
Though Snitch loudly announces itself as a social-issues movie, its nominal outrage over the severity of our nation's sentencing laws for first-time drug offenders is quickly subsumed by a jacked-up narrative of a father going to extremes to save his son.- Posted Feb 21, 2013
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Melissa Anderson 20
Plays like both a supremely outmoded chick-lit adaptation and an outrageously obscene gesture as the economy continues to swallow up livelihoods, homes, and hope. -
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Melissa Anderson 20
To Save a Life wants to rescue kids from the Satanic messages of "Gossip Girl"--a benign, even worthy enough objective, but must alternatives to empty, materialistic adolescence require baptism in the Pacific? -
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Melissa Anderson 20
Fifty years after her death, the actress's corpse is still being picked over with ever-diminishing returns, as evidenced in Liz Garbus's garish, misguided documentary.- Posted Nov 27, 2012
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Melissa Anderson 10
Curiously, Blackmail Boy's alternate title is "Oxygen"--and by film's end, you'll be gasping for it. -
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Melissa Anderson 10
A sloppy, desultory, depressive buddy comedy the color of beer-infused pee. -
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Melissa Anderson 10
Though its structure may be whittled down in comparison with the earlier works, Biutiful is even more morbidly obese than "Babel" in terms of soggy ideas, elephantine with miserabilist humanism and redemption jibber-jabber.- Posted Dec 28, 2010
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Melissa Anderson 10
A movie so excruciating that it makes its predecessor, "Valentine's Day," seem like "Nashville" in comparison.- Posted Dec 6, 2011
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Melissa Anderson 0
Blind Side the movie peddles the most insidious kind of racism, one in which whiteys are virtuous saviors, coming to the rescue of African-Americans who become superfluous in narratives that are supposed to be about them. -
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Melissa Anderson 0
Continuing both his bad filmmaking and obsession with lethal orifices, Mitchell Lichtenstein follows up "Teeth," his clumsy debut about a dismembering vagina, with a voluminous explosion of poop. -
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Melissa Anderson 0
Above all, it will make you long for a day when studio movies about relationships feel like they are by and for adults who have actually been in one. -
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Melissa Anderson 0
Hoping to distract us from the zero ideas found in his film, Levinson demands that his cast act loudly and unbearably, a task for which Demi Moore, as the second wife of Ellen's first husband, is perfectly suited.- Posted Nov 15, 2011
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