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Saturday, October 29, 2016

Misleading Men: Jackie Chan

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Jackie Chan receives an Honorary Oscar next month. For my regular MEL feature "Misleading Men," I take a look at the Hong Kong...
Friday, October 28, 2016

Anderson .Paak (Featuring ScHoolboy Q) - "Am I Wrong"

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I'd be shocked if Malibu , Anderson .Paak's second album, doesn't end up in the Top 10 on the Pazz & Jop poll. My favorite t...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

'Inferno' Review

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Tom Hanks is back! In the franchise of his that nobody cares about! For The New Republic , I reviewed Inferno , which is total nonsense b...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: 'Moonlight' and 'Weekend at Bernie's,' Together at Last

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The 40th episode of the Grierson & Leitch podcast focuses on Moonlight , but we also dig into the Jack Reacher sequel and American P...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

'Doctor Strange' Review

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Sufficiently amusing and pretty exciting, Doctor Strange is the Marvel movie where I started suspecting that the MCU may be spreading it...
Friday, October 21, 2016

Barbara Lewis - "Hello Stranger"

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The best movie of the weekend is Moonlight . In its honor, here's a song off the soundtrack.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

'Moonlight' and 'Boyhood'

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For MEL , I wrote about the magnificent Moonlight . Specifically, I compared it to another movie I love, Boyhood . They serve as excellen...

'Jack Reacher: Never Go Back' Review

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If you are desperate to watch Tom Cruise run, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back , I suppose, will satisfy your craving. But this is pretty weak ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: Talking Ben Affleck and Pink Floyd

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This week's Grierson & Leitch podcast features four films. We lament the mediocre The Accountant . I tell you why Certain Women ...
Monday, October 17, 2016

'Press Play With Madeleine Brand': Justin Timberlake and the Modern Concert Film

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I was on KCRW today to talk about Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids . Is this a golden age of concert films? I've got some thou...

What's the Greatest Horror Movie of the 21st Century?

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Glad you asked. Over at Rolling Stone , a bunch of smart critics and I wrote about this century's 50 best fright films. I had no say ...
Friday, October 14, 2016

Bob Dylan - "Not Dark Yet"

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Congrats on the Nobel, Bob.
Thursday, October 13, 2016

On the Sad, Riveting 'Christine'

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Christine , about late TV journalist Christine Chubbuck, was one of my favorite films at Sundance. I give it a second look over at The New...

'Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids' Review

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For MEL , I reviewed the new Justin Timberlake concert film. All I know is, Netflix is making a terrible mistake not releasing this movie...

'The Accountant' Review

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The Accountant is this close to being a good movie that successfully executes its mixture of ludicrousness and drama. Alas, it doesn...

Why You Need to See 'Certain Women'

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I've been singing the praises of writer-director Kelly Reichardt for a while. But, really, her latest is especially terrific. It'...

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'L.A. Confidential'

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On this week's Grierson & Leitch podcast, we dive into The Birth of a Nation . But we also grapple with The Girl on the Train , w...
Sunday, October 09, 2016

'20th Century Women' Review

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20th Century Women had its premiere on Saturday at the New York Film Festival. I reviewed the film for Screen International , and found ...
Friday, October 07, 2016

Sampling 'The Birth of a Nation' for a Second Time

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I was at the epic premiere screening for The Birth of a Nation at Sundance -- the one where there was a standing ovation before the mov...

Wu-Tang Clan - "C.R.E.A.M."

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Good lord, why has Wu-Tang Clan never been featured on Friday Video? That ends today.
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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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