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    Articles by Melissa Anderson
    Childers (Butler) carries the white man's burden.
    Machine Gun Preacher: Gerard Butler Finds Jesus, Saves...
    By Melissa Anderson • September 27, 2011 12:00 am

    Based on the true story of Sam Childers—ex-con, druggie, gun nut, and self-described “hillbilly from Pennsylvania” who got right with…

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    Parker (left) with Christina Hendricks: Not enough mess.
    I Don’t Know How She Does It: Sarah...
    By Melissa Anderson • September 13, 2011 12:00 am

    What I don’t know: why these movies keep getting made. Based on Allison Pearson’s 2002 comic bestseller, directed by Douglas…

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    Kazemy (left) and Boosheri: Up against the Muslim patriarchy.
    Circumstance: Oppressed Women in Iran
    By Melissa Anderson • September 13, 2011 12:00 am

    Set in Tehran but filmed mainly in Beirut, Maryam Keshavarz’s earnest, well- intentioned first feature on women’s oppression in Iran…

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    Steadfast interventionist Williams.
    The Interrupters: Steve James’ Immersive New Documentary
    By Melissa Anderson • September 6, 2011 12:00 am

    Inspired by a 2008 New York Times Magazine article by Alex Kotlowitz, Steve James’ commanding documentary about “violence interrupters” in…

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    The charming Mr. Ozu (Igawa).
    The Hedgehog: Preteen Discontent in France
    By Melissa Anderson • September 6, 2011 12:00 am

    Adapted from Muriel Barbery’s international best seller The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Mona Achache’s first film follows two parallel story…

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    Faith proves fickle for Farmiga's heroine.
    Higher Ground: Vera Farmiga’s Consideration of Wavering Faith
    By Melissa Anderson • September 6, 2011 12:00 am

    Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut, in which the actress plays Corinne, a woman who chafes against the restrictions of her evangelical…

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    Manyaka as stoic heroine.
    Life, Above All: A Plucky 12-Year-Old Heroine in...
    By Melissa Anderson • August 16, 2011 12:00 am

    “AIDS” isn’t uttered until well past the halfway mark of Oliver Schmitz’s problematic South Africa–set tale about the fear, gossip,…

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    Gainsbourg versus the tree.
    The Tree: Charlotte Gainsbourg as Misbehaving Widow
    By Melissa Anderson • August 9, 2011 12:00 am

    No one grieves onscreen quite like Charlotte Gainsbourg, here playing Dawn, made a widow within the first 10 minutes of…

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    Do these crabs make me look sexy? Forestier as temptress.
    The Names of Love: France and Its Problems
    By Melissa Anderson • August 2, 2011 12:00 am

    Nothing screams “French crossover comedy” like jokes about Auschwitz and childhood sexual abuse, the main rib-ticklers of Michel Leclerc’s blood-clot-inducing…

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    The sleuth (Scott Thomas) unearths unpleasant truths.
    Sarah’s Key: French Complicity in the Holocaust
    By Melissa Anderson • July 26, 2011 12:00 am

    Exposing a little-known piece of Holocaust history—the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup, in which French police arrested thousands of Jews in Paris…

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    Tunisian songstress Ben Taleb.
    Passione: John Turturro’s Pseudo-Musical
    By Melissa Anderson • July 12, 2011 12:00 am

    In his fourth film as director (and his first documentary, billed as a “musical adventure”), John Turturro plays an amateur…

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    The errant son (Julián) and his steadfast father (Bichir).
    A Better Life: Down and Out in East...
    By Melissa Anderson • July 12, 2011 12:00 am

    Pitched to tug at even Arizona governor Jan Brewer’s heartstrings, A Better Life takes on the combustible topic of illegal…

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    The Guerrilla Girls in action.
    !Women Art Revolution: A Documentary Chronicle of Feminist...
    By Melissa Anderson • June 14, 2011 12:00 am

    Like Joan Braderman’s 2009 doc The Heretics, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s lionizing chronicle of the birth, in the late ’60s, and…

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    Fortuna as the crime boss César.
    Viva Riva!: Crime in Congo
    By Melissa Anderson • June 14, 2011 12:00 am

    “Your country is the worst shit pile I have ever seen,” César (Hoji Fortuna), an Angolan crime boss, tells a…

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    Lust’s felon never drops his mask.
    The Robber: Rob. Run. Repeat
    By Melissa Anderson • May 3, 2011 12:00 am

    What makes Johann run—and rob? Benjamin Heisenberg’s second feature is as taut, lean, and fleet as its title character, played…

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    Yun in a contemplative moment.
    Poetry: Beautiful Senior Moments in South Korea
    By Melissa Anderson • March 8, 2011 12:00 am

    As in his equally exceptional previous film, Secret Sunshine (2007), Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry is a perfectly paced and performed character…

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    Your adorable simian star.
    Nenette: We Feel Trapped in the Zoo, Too
    By Melissa Anderson • February 1, 2011 12:00 am

    Stare long enough at Borneo native Nénette, a 41-year-old orangutan who’s lived at the zoo in Paris’ Jardin des Plantes…

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    Bardem slogs toward a glum epiphany.
    Biutiful: Javier Bardem Is Having a Bad Day
    By Melissa Anderson • February 1, 2011 12:00 am

    Alejandro González Iñárritu’s first film since he split from screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, with whom he created the fractured, parceled-out, time-toggling—and…

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    Hawkins as the British Norma Rae.
    Made in Dagenham: Seeking Equality on the Assembly...
    By Melissa Anderson • December 28, 2010 12:00 am

    Wimmin power retrofitted as holiday heart-stirrer, Made in Dagenham recounts the real-life 1968 strike for equal pay by the 187…

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    Carrey (left) as the con man, McGregor as his beloved.
    I Love You Phillip Morris: Jim Carrey as...
    By Melissa Anderson • December 14, 2010 12:00 am

    It’s taken almost two years for the bonkers, exhilarating same-sex romantic comedy I Love You Phillip Morris to finally reach…

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