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Sunday, December 30, 2012

2012 in Review: The Year's Best Movies

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Well, another year is in the books. Like everyone else has said, 2012 was a pretty great movie year. Coming up with a Top 10 was relative...
Friday, December 28, 2012

Atoms for Peace - "Default"

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Plenty of potentially worthwhile albums will be coming our way in 2013. One is from Atoms for Peace, the side project from Thom Yorke. Here...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

2012 in Review: The Year's Worst Movies

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You don't see more than 300 movies in a year without having to sit through some real duds. So, for Deadspin , Will and I each picked ...
Sunday, December 23, 2012

Love You, Tom Cruise

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It was about 30 minutes into watching Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol that I realized, "You know what? I just really love Tom C...
Friday, December 21, 2012

'Parental Guidance' Review

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When I saw my first poster for Parental Guidance in the lobby of a theater at the Toronto Film Festival, I was convinced it was a spoof. ...

The Weeknd - "Wicked Games"

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The Weeknd's House of Balloons was one of my Top 10 albums of last year , and in 2012, it as well as two other mixtapes he put out in 2...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

'Les Miserables' Review

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In case you thought you could confidently peg my tastes -- or lack thereof -- I hope it comes as something of a shock that I really liked...

'Jack Reacher' Review

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I should point out that this review of Jack Reacher was written before the killings in Newtown. I bring this up because this Tom Cruise ...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

'This Is 40' Review

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This is just an OK movie. This is probably Judd Apatow's weakest effort. This is somewhat reminiscent of a Bergman film (which is int...
Monday, December 17, 2012

2012 in Review: The Year's Best Movie Moments

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For IFC Fix, I decided to put together a list of every great moment from a 2012 film I could recall. As a result, the final product may ...
Friday, December 14, 2012

'Amour' Review

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This review was written before the shooting in Connecticut. I say this because Amour looks at death with a clear-eyed perspective and, y...

Randy Newman - "I Want You to Hurt Like I Do"

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Congratulations, Mr. Newman . You're the best.
Thursday, December 13, 2012

2012 in Review: My Problems With 'Brave'

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For Deadspin , Will and I each picked a hit movie from 2012 that we really couldn't stand. I took Brave , which I think is easily Pix...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

'Django Unchained' Review

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I should probably confess to you before linking to my review of Django Unchained that I'm not a gaga Quentin Tarantino fan. How can ...
Monday, December 10, 2012

2012 in Review: The Small Gems You May Have Missed

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2012 simply had too many great movies. (My Top 10 ballot had to be narrowed down from a pretty excellent list of 13 contenders.) For IFC ...
Saturday, December 08, 2012

Looking Back at 'Lord of the Rings'

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We're mere days away from the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey . (You can read my review here .) For Deadspin , I decided...
Friday, December 07, 2012

The Beatles - "Julia"

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This week's Friday Video goes out to some dear friends who just had their second child and named her Julia. The father is a huge Beatles...
Thursday, December 06, 2012

2012 in Review: The Scene in 'Trouble With the Curve' I Hated

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I prefer singing the praises of the films I love as opposed to ripping on the ones I can't stand, but in the spirit of end-of-the-yea...

'Hyde Park on Hudson' Review

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I know that others hated Hyde Park on Hudson , but I personally couldn't muster up enough disdain to care one way or the other. This ...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

'Promised Land' Review

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Promised Land is a film that I desperately wanted to like more than I did. A smart, sincere, thoughtful small-town drama about an energ...
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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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