ROTTEN TOMATOES: Alissa Wilkinson

ALISSA WILKINSON

Agrees with the Tomatometer 93% of the time.

Biography: Alissa grew up watching black-and-white movies with a lot of fedora-wearing charmers. Then she moved to New York City and started dating a filmmaker, and it was all over from there. An aficianado of the French New Wave, dark humor, and quiet, quirky drama, she loves anything made by David Fincher, Noah Baumbach, P.T. Anderson, Robert Altman, or Krzysztof Kielslowski, and thinks Stranger Than Fiction is the perfect film. Alissa is working on an M.A. in culture and media studies at New York University. She is editor-in-chief of The Curator, associate editor of Comment, and on staff at International Arts Movement, and her work regularly appears in Paste and Comment. In 2006, she married the filmmaker, and they are happy Brooklynites.

Publications: Christianity Today

Total Reviews: 15

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 21%	Oh My God (2009)	" There's nothing new unearthed in this film. The religious adherent won't have their mind changed, and the person who isn't sure what they believe won't find any help here, either." Posted Nov 30, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 87%	A Serious Man (2009)	" Far more relatable than the Coens' recent work, and one cannot watch it without pondering some questions about the meaning of trials and the nature of fate." Posted Oct 31, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 41%	New York, I Love You (2009)	" While some of the segments are well constructed, the overall quality is simply uneven, and the transitions between segments sometimes verge on the contrived." Posted Oct 31, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 75%	Cold Souls (2009)	" *While Cold Souls* doesn't answer any of the questions it raises, it does provide a thought-provoking narrative framework from which to begin.**" Posted Aug 7, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 51%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" Ultimately, the film reminds us that human life is precious and worth preserving%u2014and all in a smart summer blockbuster." Posted Jun 24, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 72%	The Great Buck Howard (2009)	" *Light, witty, and occasionally thoughtful, The Great Buck Howard* is a good Saturday-afternoon popcorn flick for teens and adults.**" Posted Mar 23, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 98%	The Wrestler (2008)	" Tour de force may be a cliched reviewer's phrase for performances during Oscar season, but it's the only one that can be applied to Rourke here." Posted Dec 23, 2008
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 35%	Adam Resurrected (2008)	" Could have been a tour de force for director Paul Schrader and his cast, and the glimpses of greatness make the reality all the more disappointing." Posted Dec 16, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 78%	Doubt (2008)	" Doubt brings assumptions about people and circumstances to the surface, and then challenges those assumptions with uncertainty and, yes, doubt. Nobody loses, but nobody wins, either" Posted Dec 16, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 67%	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	" A brilliant, gut-wrenching plunge into the painful work of facing the decisions we make and choosing to either continue onward, or live in regret." Posted Oct 24, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 54%	What Just Happened (2008)	" Though the movie is darkly funny, most people outside the movie business won't find themselves laughing too much." Posted Oct 17, 2008
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 86%	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	" Throbs with life from title to credits, employing perhaps the most authentic characters you'll see on screen this year." Posted Oct 3, 2008
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 13%	The Women (2008)	" *While The Women* provides an evening of laughter and some points to ponder, relationships work only when all involved are willing to sacrifice for one another.**" Posted Sep 29, 2008
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 64%	Brideshead Revisited (2008)	" *Though a story of the disappearing tradition of aristocracy, Brideshead Revisited* is, at its core, a tale of the outworking of God's grace in people's lives.**" Posted Sep 29, 2008

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