Email Author Melissa Anderson

2012 Stories by Melissa Anderson

• Michigan Is Not for Lovers

  published April 26, 2012

  There is exactly one unexpected moment in the otherwise drearily predictable The Five-Year Engagement that, though little more than... More >>

• North America's Next Top Killer

  published March 22, 2012

  "If no one watches, then they don't have a game," a teenager says in this faithful if cautious adaptation of the first volume of Suzanne Collins's... More >>

• Undercover Brothers

  published March 15, 2012

  The television show 21 Jump Street, about cops who go undercover as high schoolers, debuted on Fox in 1987 — one year after the... More >>

• Two Thirties and a Baby

  published March 8, 2012

  In the opening scene of Friends with Kids, a conspicuously placed copy of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion on the bedside... More >>

• Dance, Dance, Revolution

  published January 26, 2012

  "You just have to get crazier" were the words of advice mighty choreographer Pina Bausch once gave to one of her dancers, who fondly recalls the... More >>

• On Her Way Out

  published January 12, 2012

  The first ten minutes of Dee Rees's funny, moving, nuanced and impeccably acted first feature, in which coming of age and coming out are... More >>

• Is Nothing Sacred?

  published January 12, 2012

  A holy hot mess of the sacred and the inane, Joyful Noise, about a small-town Southern gospel choir, lifts from Usher's "Yeah!"... More >>