Tim Grierson, Senior US critic
Based in the United States.
Contact info
- Email:
- timgrierson@yahoo.com
Reviews‘A Talent For Murder’ review: Helen Mirren is spiky author Patricia Highsmith in Anton Corbijn’s underwhelming thriller
Alden Ehrenreich and Olivia Cooke also star in the director’s Toronto Gala premiere
Reviews‘Alpha Gang’ review: Chris Pine, Léa Seydoux and Cate Blanchett are stylish alien invaders in diverting, overstretched sci-fi
Dave Bautista, Lily-Rose Depp and Riley Keough also star in the Zellner brothers’ follow-up to ‘Sasquatch Sunset’
Reviews‘The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd’ review: Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy lead sober prison drama
Tim Blake Nelson’s latest feature premieres as a Toronto Gala Presentation
Reviews‘The Debut’ review: A superb Julianne Moore takes centre stage in Jesse Eisenberg’s wry community theatre comedy
Eisenberg’s follow-up to Oscar-winner ‘A Real Pain’ also stars an impressive Paul Giamatti
Reviews‘Misty Green’ review: A scorching performance from Rosalind Eleazar powers Chris Rock’s thorny Hollywood satire
Rock’s Toronto Gala Prentation also stars Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya and Anna Kendrick
Reviews‘Babies’ review: Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick face a big decision in likable LA crowdpleaser
Issa Rae and David Strathairn also star in Lauren Miller Rogen’s Toronto Gala Presentation premiere
Reviews‘Up Against It’ review: Trudie Styler’s aggressively sentimental tearjerker fails to make the most of stars Antonio Banderas and Eva Birthistle
Toronto Gala Presentation title takes a glossy approach to its thorny material
Reviews‘The Assassin(s)’ review: Hur Jin-ho turns 1974 assassination attempt on South Korean president into gripping, propulsive thriller
Yoo Hai-jin, Park Hae-il and Lee Min-ho star in the director’s follow-up to ’A Normal Family’
Reviews‘A Long Winter’ review: A sheltered young man faces a seismic shift in Andrew Haigh’s masterful 1950s Rocky Mountain drama
Haigh follows All Of Us Strangers and 45 Years with this atmospheric study of a splintering family
Reviews‘Being Heumann’ review: Ruth Madeley impresses as US disability advocate Judy Heumann in broad period drama
Sian Heder follows CODA with cutesy dramatisation of Heumann’s 1977 San Francisco sit-in which opens Toronto
Reviews‘The Uprising’ review: A stirring Andrew Garfield is unable to energise Paul Greengrass’s listless period drama
The writer/director’s take on England’s 1381 Peasants’ Revolt also stars Tom Hollander, Jamie Bell and Thomasin McKenzie
Reviews‘Musk’ review: Alex Gibney presents a gripping if glossy study of controversial billionaire Elon Musk
Gibney’s exhaustive documentary plays Venice ahead of berths in Toronto and London
Reviews‘Look Back’ review: Hirokazu Koreeda sketches a tender but overly sentimental portrait of young friendship
The Japanese auteur’s live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s acclaimed manga debuts in Venice Competition
Reviews‘Hombre Al Agua’ review: Gael Garcia Bernal’s class satire proves disjointed and underpowered
Garcia Bernal directs, co-writes and stars in this Venice Spotlight premiere
Reviews‘Possible Love’ review: Lee Chang-dong explores class, desire and exploitation in powerful Venice competition return
The ‘Burning’ director reunites with star Sul Kyung-gu for an enigmatic drama about two married couples divided by wealth
Reviews‘Father Joe’ review: Kiefer Sutherland takes holy orders in Luc Besson’s violent action romp
Al Pacino adds marquee heft to Barthélémy Grossmann’s knowingly trashy action thriller
Reviews‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger’ review: Sentimental doc about UK band’s reunion plays best when it focuses on the music
Directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace chart Oasis’s 2025 tour in Venice out of competition title
Reviews‘The Idiot(s)’ review: Aimee Lou Wood and Johnny Flynn spar in an audacious portrait of the Dostoevskys
An irreverent, eccentric take on the turbulent marriage behind one of literature’s great names
Reviews‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile’ review: Julia Loktev’s portrait of Russian journalists in exile deepens in its second chapter
The follow-up to 2024’s ’Last Air In Moscow’ proves every bit as compelling, if more intimate
Reviews‘Too Much Sugar’ review: Robert Greene delivers a clear-eyed portrait of family dysfunction and filmmaking as therapy
The Procession director’s latest is a moving exploration of fatherhood and masculinity in small-town Missouri