Email Author MELISSA ANDERSON

2013 Stories by MELISSA ANDERSON

• 'Ginger & Rosa': BFFs At the End of Time

  published March 14, 2013

  Private dramas unfold against the backdrop of broader historical terrors in Sally Potter's absorbing coming-of-age drama Ginger &... More >>

• This 'Leviathan' Has Sea Legs

  published February 28, 2013

  End of days, or the beginning of new ways of seeing? Fittingly, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel's Leviathan,... More >>

• Physician, Heal Thyself

  published February 7, 2013

  For the past two decades, Eytan Fox has been Israel's foremost chronicler of gay life—and the homoeroticized military—in the land... More >>

• 'Side Effects' May Induce Queasy Pleasure

  published February 7, 2013

  If Side Effects, an immensely pleasurable thriller centering on psychotropic drugs, really is Steven Soderbergh's final big-screen... More >>

• The Real Girl

  published January 24, 2013

  Films in which little kids are the protagonists are often laden with heavy-handed sentimentality: Witness 6-year-old Hushpuppy, the tiny sage... More >>

• Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Face Monsters

  published January 17, 2013

  A chiller about two abandoned little girls and their bond to the wraith of the title, Mama never delivers the primal terror its... More >>