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Friday, May 31, 2019

Jazmine Sullivan - "Mascara"

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Some albums stay lodged in my Spotify favorites for months. I don't focus on them, but when a random track pops up on shuffle, I'm r...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

'Pavarotti' Review

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I know nothing about opera, but I liked Pavarotti well enough. (Some of the best parts involve actually breaking down what makes a great...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

The Best Godzilla Movies

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With Godzilla: King of the Monsters coming out, we decided to take a look back at the high-water marks of this big-screen beast. Check i...

Cannes 2019: 'The Bare Necessity' Review

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One last Cannes review: For Screen International , I wrote about the Directors' Fortnight offering The Bare Necessity , which is a fr...
Monday, May 27, 2019

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: Will Smith, Teen Friends and 'Mad Max'

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On this week's episode, I recap my Cannes experience. Then, we review Aladdin and Booksmart . Finally, we look back at 1979's Ma...

Some Thoughts on 'Aladdin'

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When did Will Smith become America's dad? Who gives the best performance in Aladdin ? And why isn't Gilbert Gottfried in the ...

Some Thoughts on 'Booksmart'

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For MEL , I wrote about Booksmart and the importance of the sidekick in buddy comedies. Hope you enjoy .

'Rim of the World' Review

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Netflix released a kids' action-adventure movie this weekend. It's called Rim of the World . It is terrible. I wrote about it for...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Cannes 2019: The Wrap-Up and the Rankings

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My sixth Cannes was unique in that, as opposed to previous editions, I wasn't in much agreement with my colleagues about what were th...
Friday, May 24, 2019

Kids See Ghosts (featuring Yasiin Bey) - "Kids See Ghosts"

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I had a chat with someone the other day here at Cannes about Kanye, and we were both talking about how much we liked Kids See Ghosts . So no...

Cannes 2019: 'The Traitor' Review

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In The Traitor , director Marco Bellocchio tells the story of Tommaso Buscetta, a mafia made man who turned government informant. This is...

Cannes 2019: 'Ghost Tropic' Review

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One of the fun things about going to a festival as part of a trade publication is that you'll get assigned to review movies that woul...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

What's Keanu Reeves' Best Performance?

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That's the task we gave ourselves over at Vulture . I'll say this: It wasn't that hard to pick No. 1, although from there was...

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: John Wick, Anton Chigurh and 'The Souvenir'

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This week, we look at two very different assassins while reviewing John Wick: Chapter 3 and looking back at No Country for Old Men . In ...

Cannes 2019: 'Matthias & Maxime' Review

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Xavier Dolan is back at Cannes for the first time since his disastrous It’s Only the End of the World . (I was at that screening. It was ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Cannes 2019: 'Tommaso' Review

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Willem Dafoe plays Abel Ferrara -- or, at least, an Abel Ferrara stand-in -- in Tommaso , a bleak character study about a tormented filmm...

Some Thoughts on 'John Wick: Chapter 3'

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For MEL , I wrote about the life-affirming violence of Parabellum . (I also had some thoughts about Jason Mantzoukas and Anjelica Huston....

'Aladdin' Review

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I saw Aladdin before Cannes and wrote my review before the festival as well. I now remember nothing about either, so let's see what ...
Monday, May 20, 2019

'Catch-22' Review

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I tried and tried, but I just couldn't get into Hulu's miniseries remake of Catch-22 . I explain why over at MEL .
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Cannes 2019: 'A Hidden Life' Review

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A Hidden Life might be Terrence Malick's most urgent, tormented and vital film since ... The Tree of Life ? I reviewed his latest fo...
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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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