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Melissa Maerz

Melissa Maerz's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors (2015) 78% B EDIT “To paraphrase something Parton once said about herself: It may look fake, but it's real where it counts. What counts most is the acting, which lends the story a naturalism that the script can't.” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 14, 2015 Full Review The Wiz Live! (2015) 91% A- EDIT “You can blame nostalgia for the original musical. But even if you don't believe it's a brand new day, it's nice to still love the old one.” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 4, 2015 Full Review Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart (2014) 75% EDIT “I still don't know if Smart is innocent. No one outside the case ever will. But watching Captivated certainly made me reconsider why I assumed she was guilty in the first place.” – Entertainment Weekly Aug 21, 2015 Full Review Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015) 95% A EDIT “If Going Clear were a Hollywood thriller, I'd complain that it's too over-the-top. But this is real life, which is mind-blowing, and as a documentary, it's disturbingly good.” – Entertainment Weekly Mar 13, 2015 Full Review Cake (2014) 49% B+ EDIT “The smaller scenes that focus on the everyday reality of depression stick with you ...” – Entertainment Weekly Jan 21, 2015 Full Review Laggies (2014) 64% B EDIT “What saves Laggies is Knightley, who's all gangly limbs and pouty faces, schlepping around in pajamas, acting exactly like a teenager trapped in a grown-up world.” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 22, 2014 Full Review The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013) 64% B EDIT “Disappearance is worth watching for Chastain's fierce performance as a woman swallowed up by bone-deep grief. If we can feel exactly what Eleanor is feeling, maybe we're not so alone after all.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 10, 2014 Full Review Tracks (2013) 83% A EDIT “Like Davidson herself, this lush adaptation from director John Curran (The Painted Veil) is remarkable for accomplishing so much with so little.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 10, 2014 Full Review The Calling (2014) 55% B- EDIT “There's one scene in this serial-killer drama that may haunt you, especially if you have a thing about corpses' mouths (shiver).” – Entertainment Weekly Aug 28, 2014 Full Review Fed Up (2014) 80% B+ EDIT “Some lessons are overfamiliar (almonds good, corn syrup bad), but the section on corporate influence over school lunches is enough to make you spit out that 20-ounce soda from the concession stand.” – Entertainment Weekly May 8, 2014 Full Review Upstream Color (2013) 87% A- EDIT “If the movie is a bit of a mystery, so is Carruth.” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 17, 2013 Full Review Sound City (2013) 100% B+ EDIT “Dave Grohl's terrific new doc, Sound City, profiles the studio where some of the greatest music of the past four decades was born.” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 16, 2013 Full Review Lovelace (2013) 53% C EDIT “Reduces her troubled life to scenes of sex and violence so cartoonish they should've been relegated to a hair-metal video.” – Entertainment Weekly Aug 7, 2013 Full Review Ginger & Rosa (2012) 78% B+ EDIT “Teenagers do horrible things to each other in the name of their ''ideals.'' But adults do too, which is so much worse.” – Entertainment Weekly Mar 13, 2013 Full Review
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