Tim Grierson

@timgrierson

Senior U.S. Critic for Screen International. Member: LAFCA and NSFC. Frequently in the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Vulture, the A.V. Club and RogerEbert.com. Author of "This Is How You Make a Movie." Q&A moderator. Contact: timothygrierson@gmail.com

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Tim Grierson@timgrierson· Jul 12

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· Jul 8

Graffiti of Mickey Mouse with dollar signs for eyes.

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· Jul 8

EVIL DEAD BURN: Relentlessly vicious. Exceedingly nasty. I don't know how much they trimmed to avoid an NC-17, but it doesn't seem like much. And yet, underneath, the movie actually says something meaningful about an overdone horror trope, making the hell of domestic violence agonizingly real.

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· Jul 3

From the first page of Spike Lee's diary as he prepares to write DO THE RIGHT THING.

"It's nine in the morning and I'm sitting down to get started on my next project , Do The Right Thing. I hope to start shooting next August. I want the film to take place over the course of one day, the hottest day of the year, in Brooklyn, New York. The film has to look hot, too. The audience should feel like it's suffocating, like In the Heat of the Night."

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· Jul 2

DRY LEAF: Alexandre Koberidze combines Lynch's deliberately smudgy INLAND EMPIRE visuals, Kiarostami's elevation of the everyday and Weerasethakul's insistence that it's OK to doze in his films to turn the building blocks of movies and life into a fascinating abstraction. An otherworldly experience.

Still from Alexandre Koberidze's DRY LEAF.

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· Jun 18

A very stupid photoshop I made that changes the poster of "Trouble With the Curve" to "Trouble With the Fastball."

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· Jun 13

World Cup watch party. Culver City, California.

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· Jun 3

Hell yeah.

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· May 27

THE BREADWINNER: An extended ad for Toyota, Walmart, Shark Tank, the Tennessee Titans, All laundry detergent, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taylor Swift and, eventually, Nate Bargatze's standup specials, which I swear are funnier, more self-deprecating and humane than this colossally lazy, inept debacle.

Still from Nate Bargatze's "The Breadwinner."

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· May 26

"Not owning any Sonny Rollins records is like not owning any Aretha Franklin records--his sheer physical presence is something no aural sensualist should live without." -- Robert Christgau in 1984.

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· May 23

Here's the final Screen Cannes Jury Grid. Maybe this year's Competition wasn't as strong as recent editions, but we did end up with four films averaging 3.1 stars or better (out of four), which is rare: www.screendaily.com/cannes-jury-...

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· May 20

THE MAN I LOVE: For a third straight film, Ira Sachs creates an atmosphere of electric immediacy that makes you think anything could happen at any moment. These people lived, loved, struggled and made art, and then they were gone. Sachs refuses to let them be forgotten. A stunning achievement.

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· May 20

The latest edition of Screen International's Cannes Jury Grid is now live. And we have a new film in second place. www.screendaily.com/cannes-jury-...

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· May 19

THE UNKNOWN: If you could actually see yourself as everyone else sees you, how terrifying a proposition would that be? This self-serious body-swap drama gets by on its insistence that we don't really want to know how much of our identity stems from our physical being. A freaky time at the arthouse.

Still from "The Unknown," screening in competition at Cannes.

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· May 19

The latest edition of Screen International's Cannes Jury Grid is live. I'm higher than the consensus on both MOULIN and FJORD. www.screendaily.com/cannes-jury-...

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· May 17

The latest edition of Screen’s Cannes Jury Grid just went live. We’ve got a new film at the bottom of the heap. www.screendaily.com/cannes-jury-...

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· May 16

I figured ALL OF A SUDDEN would now sit atop Screen's Cannes Jury Grid. But I was mistaken. www.screendaily.com/cannes-jury-...

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· May 12

When I thought of Rex Reed, I always recalled this behind-the-scenes anecdote from the New York Film Critics Circle vote in 2006. Clearly, he was no fan of UNITED 93. arktimes.com/the-moviegoe...

Best Picture wound up being the most contentious category. Most winners are decided on the second or third ballot; a handful require four. In this case, however, the fourth ballot was a tie between UNITED 93 and THE QUEEN, thus necessitating a rare fifth and tiebreaking ballot.

(First the room voted on whether or not to simply announce a tie in the category; almost nobody wanted to.) Of the 22 critics who were physically present (proxy votes having dropped out after ballot #2), 12 went for UNITED 93, giving it the squeakiest victory since Daniel Day-Lewis beat out Jack Nicholson in ’02. Lisa Schwarzbaum suggested that since even this 12-10 vote was a virtual tie, we really ought to award Best Picture to both films. Nobody really agreed (but no vote was taken).

A brief silence. Then, the voice of Rex Reed.

“So that’s it.”

Pause.

“The best film of 2006.”

Pause.

“According to the New York Film Critics Circle.”

Pause.

“Is UNITED 93.”

Long, uncomfortable pause, plus some tittering.

“A film that no one in America wanted to see.”

Leah Rozen: “And how did you vote, Rex?”

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· May 12

Just a reminder: Screen International has no paywall during the entirety of the Cannes Film Festival, starting now. All the news, reviews, podcasts and critics' grid are open. www.screendaily.com

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· May 10

Greetings from Cannes. The calm before the (quite possibly literal) storm.

Image of the Palais in Cannes with the festival’s official poster depicting “Thelma & Louise.”

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· May 8

It has now been 10 years since Radiohead's most recent album, A MOON SHAPED POOL, came out. It remains their most melancholy, dreamy and spiritually exhausted, ending with the tearful sigh of "True Love Waits." The band didn't quite disappear completely afterward. But sometimes it feels like it.

Album cover for Radiohead's "A Moon Shaped Pool."

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· Apr 29

Weirdly, the sequel I most thought of while watching THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 was T2 TRAINSPOTTING. In both films, the good times (such as they were) are over, and now everybody has to decide how to make the best of it. T2 is better because it embraces that bitter, wistful resignation.

A still of Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci from "The Devil Wears Prada 2."

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· Apr 26

There are many things I've found depressing in the aftermath of the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting. But Dana White's hell-yeah-bro response might be the most soul-destroying. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

UFC president and CEO Dana White recently told USA Today that he thought experiencing Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting in person was “fucking awesome.”

“All of a sudden, it just started getting noisy. Tables started getting flipped over, guys running in with guns, and they were screaming, ‘Get down!’” White, who was in attendance at the dinner, recalled. “I didn’t get down. It was fucking awesome, and I literally took every minute of it in. It was a pretty crazy, unique experience.”

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· Apr 10

On Sunday, April 12, I'll be moderating two Q&As for THE CHRISTOPHERS with director Steven Soderbergh and writer Ed Solomon at the AMC Century City 15. Tickets and info here: www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-c...

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· Apr 3

AI Overview explaining how to offer condolences.

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· Mar 29

Terrific @latimes.com photos from today's #NoKings rally in downtown Los Angeles. (The first two are by Myung J. Chun. The third is by Allen J. Schaben. The fourth is by Connor Sheets.)

“No Kings” national day of protest at Gloria Molina Grand Park in Los Angeles. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)

Maria Flores Scott, center, a.k.a. “La Muerte de Maria,” wears a costume of resistance in Gloria Molina Grand Park in Los Angeles. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)

“Dandidi, The Harlequin of Liberty,” center, attends his 17th protest against President Trump at the “No Kings” national day of protest at Gloria Molina Grand Park in Los Angeles. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty at downtown’s Federal Building on Saturday. (Connor Sheets / Los Angeles Times)

Tim Grierson@timgrierson· Mar 25

THEY WILL KILL YOU:

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