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Sunday, April 28, 2024

When Movies Change After the Premiere

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Sometimes, a film undergoes major alterations after its world premiere at a prestigious festival. Maybe the director realized parts of the s...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

My Interview With Joanna Arnow, the Writer-Director-Star of 'The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed'

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Joanna Arnow does practically everything on her feature-length debut, which I think is terrific. I spoke to Arnow about nudity, sexuality, c...
Friday, April 26, 2024

Harry Nilsson - "You're Breakin' My Heart"

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This is a love song.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: Vampire Ballerinas, World War II Warriors and 'Some Like It Hot'

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On this week's episode, we don't have much nice to say about Abigail or The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare . Then, in our Reboot...

I Love Luca Guadagnino

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Luca Guadagnino's latest is one of his best. In honor of the imminent release of Challengers , I wrote about the filmmaker's consumi...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

Why Aren't More Biopics Like 'Man on the Moon'?

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For its 25th anniversary, the Jim Carrey film screened at Ebertfest. I explained why it still matters here .

What's Steve Martin's Best Film?

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In honor of the new Steve Martin documentary, we ranked all of the man's films. Our No. 1 might not be most people's, but we're ...
Friday, April 19, 2024

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: 'The People's Joker' and 'Sasquatch Sunset'

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We discuss three major movies on the latest episode of the podcast. Will and I start things off with Civil War , and then we segue to a pers...

The Power Station - "Some Like It Hot"

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Cocaine!
Thursday, April 18, 2024

The Women You Meet in Alex Garland's Films

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Civil War is writer-director Alex Garland's fourth film, and his fourth to feature a woman as its principal character. For RogerEbert.c...

'Abigail' Review

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Some crooks kidnapped the wrong 12-year-old ballerina. My review of Abigail is here .
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

How Eleanor Coppola Helped 'Apocalypse Now'

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For RogerEbert.com , I wrote about Eleanor Coppola, who died last week. My focus: her massive contribution to her husband's 1979 war epi...

'The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' Review

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Henry Cavill has great facial hair in Guy Ritchie's latest. As for the rest of Ungentlemanly Warfare ... here's my Screen Internati...
Monday, April 15, 2024

My Interview With John Early, Star of 'Stress Positions'

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John Early worries about being pretentious. We talked about that -- and Britney Spears and millennials and his sharp new film Stress Positio...

My Interview With Wagner Moura, Star of 'Civil War'

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Before he was an actor, Wagner Moura was a journalist. So he understands a little about the character he plays in Civil War . We talked abou...
Friday, April 12, 2024

Your 2024 Cannes Competition Preview

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This was very fun: For RogerEbert.com , I wrote about every film that will be screening in the Official Competition at Cannes. (A few more m...

'Challengers' Review

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Challengers is Luca Guadagnino's best film since Call Me by Your Name . My review is up at Screen International .

The Rapture - "House of Jealous Lovers"

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It's so funny, 20-something years later, how clearly this sounds like a LCD Soundsystem song.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: Reviews of 'Monkey Man' and 'Girls State'

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The boys are back. This week, we agreed that Monkey Man is mediocre. I raved about The Beast . And then we dig into Girls State . Hope you ...
Monday, April 08, 2024

How Kristen Stewart Became Kristen Stewart

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The Criterion Channel is currently featuring the three most crucial movies in Kristen Stewart's post- Twilight career: Clouds of Sils M...
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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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