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Friday, November 30, 2012

PJ Harvey and Thom Yorke - "This Mess We're In"

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I haven't listened to Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea  in a while, so I popped it in the other day. Still fantastic, but ...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

2012 in Review: C'mon, Zach Galifianakis

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Today at Deadspin , I cast my vote for the performance I most want to forget from 2012. Which brings me to Zach Galifianakis and The Camp...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

2012 in Review: Tom Cruise's Great, Forgotten Performance

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2012 is very nearly over, so it's time to start looking back at the best and worst of the year. For Deadspin , I singled out a great ...
Monday, November 26, 2012

'Zero Dark Thirty' Review

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Zero Dark Thirty is the follow-up film from director Kathryn Bigelow, who won an Oscar for her last one, The Hurt Locker . I respected t...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Bruce Springsteen - "State Trooper (Trentemøller Mix)"

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If it's playing in your town, you should see Rust and Bone , the fine new film from French director Jacques Audiard, who previously made...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Yeah, 'Red Dawn' Is Awful

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The question isn't "Is Red Dawn  bad?" but, rather, "How bad is Red Dawn ?" Plenty -- it's plenty bad. I get ...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving: Some Thoughts on 'Hannah and Her Sisters'

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Just about every year right after Thanksgiving passes, I'll think, "You know, I should have watched Hannah and Her Sisters ....
Saturday, November 17, 2012

Hell Yeah Ang Lee

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Oscar-winning director Ang Lee will be releasing Life of Pi  on Wednesday. My review will be coming out closer to that time, but meanwhil...
Friday, November 16, 2012

What's Steven Spielberg's Best Film?

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That's the question that Will Leitch and I pondered for Vulture . We put our heads together and ranked the filmmaker's 28 feature...

Back Stage: 'The Twilight Saga' Comes to an End

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For this week's Screen Grab, you can read my thoughts on Anna Karenina , Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God and Silver Li...

Joni Mitchell - "The Last Time I Saw Richard"

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Joni Mitchell's birthday was earlier this month, which made me think about her career and what I would consider her best non-hit. A lot ...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

'Anna Karenina' Goes Beyond the Gimmicks

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I missed Anna Karenina  in Toronto, but I wasn't exactly wowed by the idea of director Joe Wright taking the Tolstoy novel and stagin...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Oscar Season > Election Season

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The headline to this post is pathetically simplistic, I realize, but for IFC Fix I thought about the ways in which Oscar campaigns are p...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

The Crazy Career of David O. Russell

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In the late '90s, David O. Russell was looked at as one of a crop of new American filmmakers (along with David Fincher, Wes Anderson,...
Friday, November 09, 2012

Prince - "Kiss"

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I have no empirical proof to back up this feeling, but I just get the sense that when it comes to Prince's all-time best songs, "Ki...
Thursday, November 08, 2012

Back Stage: Spend Some Time 'In Another Country'

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There are several great options for your movie weekend: Skyfall and Lincoln both come highly recommended. But over at Screen Grab this ...
Wednesday, November 07, 2012

'Skyfall' Review

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Casino Royale blew me away. Quantum of Solace was a bore. Now comes Skyfall , and it's a fine, fine return to form. In my Deadspin ...
Monday, November 05, 2012

Falling in Love With '28 Hotel Rooms'

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Months after attending this year's Sundance, it occurs to me that my two favorite films at the festival had something in common -- a...
Saturday, November 03, 2012

'Hitchcock' Review

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I have a soft spot in my heart for the opening night of AFI Fest. Many years ago, I attended my first ever opening night when I attended ...
Friday, November 02, 2012

'Lincoln' Review

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I'm already curious to see Lincoln again. Not because I think it's a masterpiece -- it has its flaws -- but because I found the e...
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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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