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Friday, February 26, 2010

clipse - mr. me too

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Most underrated hip-hop album of the last decade? Clipse's Hell Hath No Fury . (Or am I the only person who noticed/cared that it got li...

My Top 10 Albums of the Decade, and What They Say About Me

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Between all the movie listmaking and LAFCA awards preparation I had to do at the end of last year, I skipped putting together a best-of-the...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

'defendor' review

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Woody Harrelson's great performance in last year's The Messenger reminded me how much I like him. So I was cautiously optimistic ab...
Friday, February 19, 2010

eels - end times

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One of the best things about Eels' recent End Times record is how it equates heartbreak with death and the end of the world. For people...

"the ghost writer" review

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For my latest Consumables column , I go long on Roman Polanski's very fine thriller, The Ghost Writer . Plus, I talk about The Yellow Ha...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

the oscar-nominated shorts

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It's become a fun annual tradition: The Oscar-nominated live-action and animated shorts are released in theaters for the general public...
Monday, February 15, 2010

'the three burials of melquiades estrada' at the billy wilder

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The moving, wonderful Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is coming to the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum on Wednesday, February...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

'shutter island' review

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I enjoyed the hell out of Shutter Island . I know some people will carp that Martin Scorsese doesn't make "personal" movies an...
Friday, February 12, 2010

sparklehorse - it's a wonderful life

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Today's video was a happy accident. I woke up this morning and decided that whatever artist came up first on my iTunes when I hit "...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

my weighted ballot for the Best Picture Oscar

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As you probably know, there are 10 nominees for Best Picture this year. But as you may not know, Academy voters are being asked to rank thei...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

'order of chaos' review

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Order of Chaos is a middling revenge thriller that tries to blow the lid off the super-sexy world of ... tax attorneys. Really. My review is...

'the wolfman' review

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I normally like Benicio Del Toro. I don't like him in The Wolfman . I explain why in my review over at Screen International .

'valentine's day' review

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Complaining about Valentine's Day is a bit silly: Forget critic-proof, this movie is made for people who specifically don't want to ...
Friday, February 05, 2010

rufus wainwright - the art teacher

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Rufus Wainwright's recent work hasn't engaged me that much, but "The Art Teacher" still totally rips my heart out.

fringe: jacksonville

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Big episode last night of Fringe . So why did I end up feeling so bored by it? I blame Dunham, and I explain why at Vulture .
Thursday, February 04, 2010

best movies of 2009, best movies of the decade

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It's way after the fact, but if you're still clamoring for my Top Ten movie lists for 2009 or the decade, you can find them both on ...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

ranking the best and worst of the sundance film festival

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From the opening-night film through today's award-winner screenings, I was here at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. (Or, as they called ...
Friday, January 29, 2010

bon iver - re: stacks

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I'm iffy on Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago album, but its final track, "Re: Stacks," is a constant comfort to me. (I...

fringe - the bishop revival

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Nowadays when a bad guy in a movie or TV show is a Nazi, I always find it slightly adorable -- they're the one group it's still tota...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

'the romantics' review

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Can a twentysomething comedy-drama be exceptionally glib and yet resonant? It can if it's The Romantics , a film that bugged me on many ...
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Tim Grierson
Senior U.S. critic for Screen International. My writing appears at the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Vulture and the A.V. Club. My latest book is This Is How You Make a Movie. I'm also the author of Martin Scorsese in Ten Scenes and Public Enemy: Inside the Terrordome. Other books: FilmCraft: Screenwriting, Wilco: Sunken Treasure, and Blinking Lights and Other Revelations: The Story of Eels. (I'm also co-author of FilmCraft: Cinematography.) Email me at grierson@hotmail.com.
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