Showing posts with label benicio del toro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label benicio del toro. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 01, 2025

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: The 'One Battle After Another' Episode

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We devoted most of this week's show to one film, Paul Thomas Anderson's explosive political action-thriller. Lots to dig into there....
Thursday, September 25, 2025

'Press Play With Madeleine Brand': 'One Battle After Another,' 'Predators,' 'Eleanor the Great' and 'Dead of Winter'

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Very happy to be on KCRW on such a big weekend for movies. Shawn Edwards and I reviewed two great films and two very forgettable ones. (The ...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: 'The Phoenician Scheme,' 'Ballerina' and 'All That Money Can Buy'

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On this week's episode, well, we're a little let down by both of the new movies we review. So it's good we went back to 1941...
Friday, May 30, 2025

'Press Play With Madeleine Brand': Dissing 'Karate Kid: Legends,' Lamenting 'The Phoenician Scheme'

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  Alison Willmore and I were on KCRW yesterday to talk about this weekend's movie offerings. Check out our reviews of Karate Kid: Legend...
Monday, May 26, 2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Talking about 'Resurrection,' 'The Mastermind' and 'Young Mothers'

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My last day at Cannes, I was on the Film Comment podcast , hosted by Devika Girish. I was joined by my buddies Justin Chang and Alison Will...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Cannes 2025: 'The Phoenician Scheme' Review

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While watching Wes Anderson's latest, something occurred to me: I've never disliked any of his movies. Until now. For Screen Interna...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

Toronto 2023: 'Reptile' Review

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Benicio del Toro brings it in Reptile , in which he plays a veteran detective whose latest murder case finds him questioning things about hi...
Monday, October 25, 2021

'Breakfast All Day': A Long Talk About 'The French Dispatch'

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Christy Lemire had Katie Walsh and me on this week's episode of Breakfast All Day to dig into Wes Anderson's latest. I was the only...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Cannes 2021: 'The French Dispatch' Review

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A love letter to journalism, Wes Anderson's latest is a series of vignettes made to resemble reported pieces in an upscale literary maga...
Monday, July 02, 2018

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: The Best Films From the First Half of 2018

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On this week's episode, we review Leave No Trace and I tackle Sicario: Day of the Soldado . But most of our run time is devoted to o...

Some Thoughts on 'Sicario: Day of the Soldado'

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For MEL , I wrote about Sicario: Day of the Soldado. Specifically, I talked about why the sequel made me so angry. Plus, I investigate be...