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Friday, October 03, 2025

'Anemone' Review

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Great news: Daniel Day-Lewis has ended his retirement from acting, at least for the moment. Not-so-great news: It's in the so-so  Anemon...

Malibu Ken - "Tuesday"

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I know it's not Tuesday. But this song, which uses that much-maligned day of the week as a metaphor for the singer's general malaise...
Wednesday, October 01, 2025

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: The 'One Battle After Another' Episode

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We devoted most of this week's show to one film, Paul Thomas Anderson's explosive political action-thriller. Lots to dig into there....
Sunday, September 28, 2025

Hamburg 2025: 'Babystar' Review

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Babystar  is a drama about a young German woman (Maja Bons) whose parents have raised her to be part of their social-media-influencer empire...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "Hiding All Away"

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It's true: I've never been the biggest Nick Cave guy. But this song rips.
Thursday, September 25, 2025

'Press Play With Madeleine Brand': 'One Battle After Another,' 'Predators,' 'Eleanor the Great' and 'Dead of Winter'

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Very happy to be on KCRW on such a big weekend for movies. Shawn Edwards and I reviewed two great films and two very forgettable ones. (The ...

'Eleanor the Great' Review

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When I put together my rankings of everything I saw at Cannes , I seriously wondered if  Eleanor the Great  was the worst film of the festiv...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: 'A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,' 'Him' and 'Predators'

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Two not-good movies and one great movie are featured in this week's podcast. I stick up a little for Kogonada's latest, but the film...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

'The Last Thing I Saw': Paul Thomas Anderson, Chloe Zhao and Rian Johnson

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I'm a fan of Nicolas Rapold 's podcast, in which each episode is devoted to him talking to someone about movies they've seen. So...
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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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