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Saturday, May 28, 2016

'Press Play With Madeleine Brand': Talking Mutants and Johnny Depp

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I was back on Press Play yesterday with Amy Nicholson to rap about X-Men: Apocalypse and Alice Through the Looking Glass . I also sing...
Friday, May 27, 2016

X - "See How We Are"

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"Life goes on long after the thrill of livin' is gone," John Mellencamp once sang, and this X song takes that truth to its nex...

Sticking Up for 'X-Men: Apocalypse'

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The reviews for the latest X-Men movie haven't been so good. So why do I like Apocalypse so much? That's what my piece in the ...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Cannes 2016: 'Graduation' Review

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One of the Cannes jury prizes that didn't drive me nuts was the awarding of Best Director to Cristian Mungiu for Graduation . (He sha...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: Cannes and 'The Nice Guys'

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I'm back from Cannes, so for this week's episode of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, we talk about the festival and my takeaway...
Monday, May 23, 2016

'Thelma & Louise,' 25 Years Later

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For Biography , I gave Thelma & Louise a second look. It came out in May 1991. Does it hold up? Mostly yes, but what's fascinati...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Cannes 2016: The Wrap-Up and the Rankings

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When people ask me how a film festival went, there are always two answers I could give. The first, which is the one folks normally care ...

Cannes 2016: 'Blood Father' Review

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I have to assume that, eventually, we as a culture will decide to forgive Mel Gibson and welcome him back. Just about every other disgrac...

Cannes 2016: 'Personal Shopper' Review

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Kristen Stewart reunites with Clouds of Sils Maria filmmaker Olivier Assayas for Personal Shopper about an American living in Paris who...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Cannes 2016: 'The Unknown Girl' Review

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Wouldn't you know it, I attend my first Cannes with a Dardenne brothers film and people don't like it all that much. Well, I enjo...

Lyle Lovett - "Step Inside This House"

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In the midst of Cannes, I missed the news about Guy Clark's passing . I'll let Lyle Lovett sing the man's praises while covering...

Cannes 2016: 'The Last Face' Review

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When journalists like myself wrote Cannes previews spotlighting the films we were most excited to see at the festival this year, very few...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

Cannes 2016: 'American Honey' Review

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There are still two days left in the festival, but my favorite film at Cannes is the most divisive. Andrea Arnold's American Honey i...

You Need to See 'The Lobster' Right Now

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I've loved The Lobster since I saw it last year at Cannes. As it starts to expand around the country, I decided to write an essay fo...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: Lobsters, George Clooney and 'The King of Comedy'

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The latest episode of the Grierson & Leitch podcast is our first intercontinental show. I'm in Cannes, Will is in the U.S., and t...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Cannes 2016: 'Midnight Return' Review

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Midnight Express is no personal favorite of mine. Its paranoia feels incredibly dated, and never mind how racist it is. Still, Midnight ...

Cannes 2016: 'The Student' Review

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One of the nicer discoveries of this year's Cannes is The Student , a Russian satire in which a Bible-thumping teenager turns his sch...

Looking Back at 'Garbage' 21 Years Later

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Garbage have a new album on the way soon. But for MEL , I decided to look back at their first, titled simply enough Garbage . I explain w...

Cannes 2016: 'Toni Erdmann' Review

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German filmmaker Maren Ade hasn't put out a new movie in years. She returns with Toni Erdmann , about a father and daughter working t...

Cannes 2016: 'Hands of Stone' Review

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The signs were not encouraging for Hands of Stone . This biopic about Roberto Duran had seen its press screenings canceled here at Cannes...
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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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