Melissa Anderson
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30% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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67% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.4 points lower than other critics.
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Melissa Anderson's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 57 | |
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Highest review score: | A Quiet Passion | |
Lowest review score: | Another Happy Day |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 141 out of 370
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Mixed: 175 out of 370
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Negative: 54 out of 370
370
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- Village Voice
- Posted Apr 12, 2018
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- Melissa Anderson
As we watch Haenel — whose piercing gaze is only one aspect of her luminosity — stride through these overdetermined scenes, clutching a medical bag to her side, we are reminded that even the most timeworn of conventions can be made electric and alive.- Village Voice
- Posted Sep 7, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
“The white Precious,” as one rival calls her, may be trying to master a musical genre known for ingenious metaphors and similes, but Patti Cake$ rarely rises above the literal.- Village Voice
- Posted Aug 15, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
We’re fortunate to witness such impassioned consideration of Houston’s art, career, and life from the people who actually knew her. Still, it’s notable that Crawford isn’t interviewed here.- Village Voice
- Posted Aug 15, 2017
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- Village Voice
- Posted Aug 10, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
Reybaud’s film similarly serves as a tonic lesson in physical specifics, each location populated with richly idiosyncratic conversation partners.- Village Voice
- Posted Aug 1, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
The most coherent moments of the simultaneously byzantine and dumb Atomic Blonde are its nimbly choreographed fight scenes, episodes that best show off the aloof appeal of Theron.- Village Voice
- Posted Jul 27, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
Malcolm D. Lee’s comedy, written by Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver — the same creative team behind last year’s uneven Barbershop: The Next Cut — pops with next-level ribaldry and smack talk, especially in its first half. But in the remaining hour, the laughs arrive less often as the gender politics grow weirder.- Village Voice
- Posted Jul 19, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
In Luc Bondy’s largely inert False Confessions, the tedium is broken by the [Isabelle Huppert's] outfits, and by the way she moves in them.- Village Voice
- Posted Jul 13, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
“Every love story is a ghost story,” David Foster Wallace wrote more than once. That evocative observation is probed in David Lowery’s A Ghost Story, a film that occasionally reaches a similar level of eloquence.- Village Voice
- Posted Jun 29, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
Though full of mysteries, and, like all of Rodrigues’s work, consistently unpredictable from scene to scene, The Ornithologist may be the director’s most conventional narrative.- Village Voice
- Posted Jun 20, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
Though it’s a phlegmatic, sometimes stumbling thriller, Moka, directed and co-written by Frédéric Mermoud, still has its share of gripping suspense.- Village Voice
- Posted Jun 15, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
Beatriz, a person committed to doing good in the world, can be obtuse in reading social cues and fatiguingly sanctimonious, her wearisome traits finely calibrated by Hayek.- Village Voice
- Posted Jun 8, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
When the separatist compound must accommodate an interloper — Steve Trevor, fished out of the sea by Diana after his plane goes down — any hopes that Wonder Woman will sustain its appealing misandry are soon dashed.- Village Voice
- Posted May 31, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
The noxious self-absorption of straight white women that Schumer has sent up so blisteringly on her Comedy Central show is extolled more than it is lampooned.- Village Voice
- Posted May 10, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
Jacobs lets casually observed details and offhand humor advance the story. There are no grand pronouncements in The Lovers, which smartly communicates its ideas about relationships during its long stretches of silence.- Village Voice
- Posted May 3, 2017
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- Village Voice
- Posted May 3, 2017
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- Village Voice
- Posted Apr 26, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
10 minutes early to the Free Fire press screening, I grew restless as “Annie’s Song” played on a continuous loop in the theater; the gimmick filled up my senses with the quickly confirmed fear that Wheatley’s film would rarely rise above the dopey and obvious.- Village Voice
- Posted Apr 20, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
In his sympathetic and intelligent Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies honors his subject by remaining true to this observation from the poet herself: "To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations."- Village Voice
- Posted Apr 12, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
Engaging ideas bubble up every so often in Colossal, a film that carries out magical thinking to its extreme. But the audacity of its conceit is inexorably tamed, becoming an all-too-familiar lesson on saying no.- Village Voice
- Posted Apr 3, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
Delicately balanced between grandeur and absurdity, Serra's film maintains this tricky equilibrium largely thanks to the icon whose face fills the screen.- Village Voice
- Posted Mar 30, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
As too often happens in nonfiction movies, their exploration of these concepts is undermined by ill-considered execution.- Village Voice
- Posted Mar 29, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
Inevitably, his generic disgruntlement will soften: Amerindie dyspeptic-comedy formula dictates that the man who rants two times too many against the addiction to phones and the internet will, by film’s end, have a heart-stirring video chat.- Village Voice
- Posted Mar 21, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
The savage derangements of grief so guttingly explored by Ozon in Under the Sand (2000), a career-revitalizing project for Charlotte Rampling, are decorously treated in Frantz.- Village Voice
- Posted Mar 15, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
When one goes to see Kristen Stewart — among the most quicksilver of her generation's performers — in Olivier Assayas's Personal Shopper, a shape-shifting, resolutely of-this-moment ghost story that features her in nearly every frame, one goes not to watch her act but refract.- Village Voice
- Posted Mar 9, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
Jordenö, in a recurring motif, honors the kiki denizens the most when she captures them motionless, staring directly into the camera, regal and indefatigable.- Village Voice
- Posted Mar 5, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
Les Hautes Solitudes is both ravishing portraiture and wordless biography, a life and aura distilled to glances and gestures.- Village Voice
- Posted Feb 23, 2017
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- Melissa Anderson
Like its central not-couple, two women tongue-tied about their desire for each other, So Yong Kim's Lovesong frustrates with its lack of articulation.- Village Voice
- Posted Feb 16, 2017
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