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Thursday, March 31, 2011

'hop' review

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Hop is probably going to do pretty well this weekend. And, hey, it's got a darn cute bunny as its main character. But, lordy, is it gene...

'source code' review

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Source Code has a lot going for it, so why isn't it more fun? I examine that question in much detail over at Yahoo .
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

'in a better world' review

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Bad movies win Oscars all the time. Look at Braveheart . Or Crash . And now let us add director Susanne Bier's In a Better World to that...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

'trust' review

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David Schwimmer's Trust is about a very serious subject: the rape of a 14-year-old girl by an Internet predator. But the movie is one of...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Bob Mould - "Sunspots"

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With Husker Du, Bob Mould was probably best known for crafting corrosive rock songs. But the dude has a gift for the pretty as well. Here...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

'sucker punch' review

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I think I actually like Sucker Punch more than a lot of my colleagues -- and I don't really like it. My Yahoo review goes into why I th...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

'miral' review

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I try not to let expectations (high or low) influence my reading of a film, but after all the horrible things I've heard about Miral , I...
Friday, March 18, 2011

warren g featuring nate dogg - regulate

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Maybe an obvious pick this week , but "Regulate" was a song I really loved back in the day. I decided to go with the official vide...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

'limitless' review

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Bradley Cooper does some of his best work in Limitless . It's not a great film, but it works pretty nicely. I share my deep, probing tho...
Friday, March 11, 2011

sleater-kinney - don't talk like

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My dirty little secret is that I was never the biggest Sleater-Kinney fan. I liked them, I respected them, but they never quite blew my sock...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

'red riding hood' review

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Gary Oldman camps it up. Amanda Seyfried does her best to seem sultry and innocent at the same time. And the whole thing feels like Twilight...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

'the lincoln lawyer' review

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For the first time in a long time, Matthew McConaughey isn't just tolerable but actually good in a movie. That film is The Lincoln Lawy...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011

'mars needs moms' review

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There have been good sci-fi animated films of late: Monsters vs. Aliens , Wall-E . Sadly, Mars Needs Moms is not one of them. My review is u...
Friday, March 04, 2011

decemberists - dear avery

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Because you need some pretty melancholy for your Friday, right? Right. This is off the Decemberists' new album, The King Is Dead .
Thursday, March 03, 2011

'beastly' review

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Some movies make you long for those hormone-driven days of high school. And then there's Beastly , which is a teen remake of Beauty and ...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

'the adjustment bureau' review

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Matt Damon seems to have bad luck with movies he releases in March through Universal. Last year brought Green Zone , and this year we have T...
Monday, February 28, 2011

'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives' Review

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The latest film from Apichatpong Weerasethakul is one of his best. (I may ultimately prefer Syndromes and a Century , but it's a close c...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

james franco bombs as academy awards host

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I was rooting for James Franco and Anne Hathaway at the Oscars. But they tanked, especially Franco. I try to figure out why over at Yahoo .
Friday, February 25, 2011

genesis - throwing it all away

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Today's my mom's birthday. So let's play a song that I know she'd like. (And let's be honest: I'm a sucker for it, t...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

my Best Picture ballot for the 2011 Academy Awards

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I am comfortable with the fact that I'm not smart enough to understand how the balloting works for Best Picture at the Oscars. (And don...
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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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