Email Author Melissa Anderson

2010 Stories by Melissa Anderson

• Happy Tears an Emotional Fraud

  published February 18, 2010

  Continuing both his bad filmmaking and obsession with lethal orifices, Mitchell Lichtenstein follows up Teeth, his clumsy debut about a... More >>

• Paris 36's Imitation Is Highest Form of Flatulence

  published February 18, 2010

  Assault by relentless accordion-playing, Paris 36 proves that sometimes, imitation is the highest form of flatulence. Christophe... More >>

• Endgame Grandstands the Final Days of Apartheid

  published January 28, 2010

  Endgame, about the covert negotiations in the '80s that helped bring down apartheid, follows Michael Young (Jonny Lee Miller), a public... More >>

• When in Rome's Lameness Tamed by Kristen Bell's Charisma

  published January 28, 2010

  The bar for romantic comedies has been set so low that when one — especially one whose press materials boast "from the studio that brought... More >>

• Don't Expect Pippa Lee to Be Anything but Comatose

  published January 21, 2010

  Rebecca Miller's fourth feature may be the only film you'll ever see with both Cornel West and Monica Bellucci in minor roles. But it is also... More >>

• The Spy Next Door Is Immediately Forgettable Family Entertainment

  published January 14, 2010

  Like director Brian Levant's last two outings — 2002's Snow Dogs, 2005's Are We There Yet? — The Spy Next Door is... More >>