Tim Grierson

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For 1,178 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Tim Grierson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Christine
Lowest review score: 10 The Emoji Movie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 572 out of 1178
  2. Mixed: 554 out of 1178
  3. Negative: 52 out of 1178
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Tim Grierson
    Sunlight
    Uneven but not without its charming, touching and even kinky moments, the film salutes the oddballs lucky enough to find like-minded souls – but the story’s invitingly bizarre vibe isn’t captivating enough to overcome some clear narrative flaws.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Tim Grierson
    Ballerina
    Action fans should savour the spectacularly violent set pieces, but a bland villain and an underwhelming narrative ultimately prove even more lethal than de Armas’s fighting skills.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Tim Grierson
    Karate Kid: Legends
    This new instalment knows which story beats to hit, but it has little grasp of the emotional undercurrents that made the original resonate — how it touched on adolescent insecurities, first love, and the scourge of school bullies.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    The Mastermind
    Josh O’Connor is marvelous as this sputtering soul with no aptitude for illegality — or, frankly, anything else — as he drifts through an unremarkable life that’s slowly slipping through his fingers.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Grierson
    Honey Don't!
    With modest ambitions and a slender runtime, the film proves to be a sexy, amusing time – despite being fairly forgettable.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Tim Grierson
    Mountainhead
    A wry smackdown of four insanely rich bros hanging out at a gaudy estate in the Utah mountains, the movie generates a decent amount of laughs, but it’s best when Armstrong puts satire aside for rage, seething at the tech kingpins destroying our society to increase their profits.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Tim Grierson
    Sentimental Value
    On its surface, the film may touch on the familiar theme of how artists draw from their own lives, but Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgard bring incredible tenderness to a story that is ultimately about what children and parents never say to one another — and whether those lifelong silences can ever be broken.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Tim Grierson
    Splitsville
    While this new film is that rare visually striking indie comedy, the clever dialogue and potentially provocative scenarios eventually fizzle, resulting in an unfocused commentary on the absurdity of modern love that is, itself, far removed from reality.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Tim Grierson
    Eagles of the Republic
    Eagles Of The Republic reunites Saleh with Fares Fares, the lead in the earlier pictures, to mock film industry egos while delivering a chilling commentary about a tyrannical government which imposes its will both through media propaganda and deadly force.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Tim Grierson
    Dossier 137
    Case 137’s no-frills style can leave the film feeling a tad generic, and one wishes that Moll resisted underlining some of his thematic points so strenuously. But there’s a laudable awareness of the racial, class and gender issues at play in this story of a dogged middle-aged woman going into battle against a heavily male police force.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Grierson
    Highest 2 Lowest
    Ultimately, the picture’s energetic swirl comes across as slightly hollow, its barrage of themes and impulses never finding harmony.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Grierson
    The Phoenician Scheme
    Although The Phoenician Scheme is transporting — an effect amplified by Alexandre Desplat’s lilting orchestral score, supplemented by selections from Stravinsky and Beethoven — the narrative proves to be fussy rather than delightful.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Tim Grierson
    Die My Love
    The Oscar-winning actress gives a volcanic performance that is nonetheless very controlled, avoiding melodramatic theatrics. Pattinson plays off his costar superbly, giving us an inattentive husband who comes to realise how little he understands about his wife.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Grierson
    The Chronology of Water
    Despite an honourable commitment to exploring how severe adolescent trauma casts a long shadow over a person’s life, the film’s patina of pain eventually grows repetitive, undercutting the sensitivity Stewart and her lead bring to the proceedings.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Tim Grierson
    Eddington
    In certain moments, the film’s absurdism recalls that era’s paranoia and volcanic anger, but too often Aster overshoots the mark, collecting the period’s signature elements without finding much that is smart to say about them.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Tim Grierson
    Bring Her Back
    As a meticulously coiled study of nasty doings under one roof, Bring Her Back convincingly argues that terror starts at home.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 67 Tim Grierson
    Deaf President Now!
    Deaf President Now! honors that struggle, even if the polished packaging doesn’t always possess a similar righteous fury.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Tim Grierson
    April
    Not quite a thriller and not quite a horror movie, April is all the more haunting for never pinning down the roots of Nina’s retreat from life while dedicating herself to improving the lives of others.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Tim Grierson
    Thunderbolts*
    If the film cannot entirely shake the suspicion that the creative peaks of this franchise are in the past, the depth of feeling in the performances suggests Marvel still has compelling tales to tell.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Tim Grierson
    Blue Sun Palace
    Each of the three leads in Blue Sun Palace dreams of a transcendence that may never come — Tsang’s superb debut puts viewers on their side, even though we see how long the odds are against them.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Tim Grierson
    One to One: John & Yoko
    “One to One” isn’t a salute to the Beatles’ brilliance or Lennon’s genius. Despite the large screens this film will play on, the movie renders its subjects as touchingly life-sized.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Tim Grierson
    Sinners
    Although sometimes a little overstuffed, the picture consistently gets under the skin thanks to its expertly-staged fright sequences that reverberate with insidious societal ills.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 42 Tim Grierson
    G20
    If G20 barely registers as original, its star remains commanding. Even when Davis dutifully goes through the motions as stern government official Amanda Waller in the recent DC films, she seems incapable of phoning in a role or winking to the audience.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Tim Grierson
    The Amateur
    The Amateur mostly tries to upend genre conventions without offering anything exciting in their place.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Tim Grierson
    Eric Larue
    Shannon laudably offers no easy solutions, although his sincerely crafted dead end feels insufficient in its own way.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    Grand Tour
    The characters’ dilemma may, ultimately, be meaningless set against the ebbs and flows of history, but Gomes, who won the directing prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, invests it with such elegance that it becomes nearly mythic: a touching fable of cowardice and devotion with tragic undertones. The scenes may be dreamlike, but they’re our shared dream of being swept away by the movies.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Tim Grierson
    A Working Man
    In its more diverting moments, A Working Man echoes its no-fuss protagonist, executing compact action set pieces that eschew flashy CGI in favour of good-old-fashioned shootouts and hand-to-hand fighting. But that spareness too often belies the lack of ingenuity elsewhere.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Tim Grierson
    Snow White
    This lack of sparkle can be felt throughout the remake which, like so many of the studio’s recent redos, feels stiff and reverential — a cynical reproduction suffused with deadening CGI.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Tim Grierson
    The Alto Knights
    And while the events depicted in The Alto Knights will result in a major law-enforcement action that profoundly shaped the American mafia, Levinson’s sombre, pedestrian approach captures neither the excitement nor the momentousness of the incident.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Tim Grierson
    Ash
    The sci-fi horror-thriller Ash makes the most of a minimal budget, casting Eiza Gonzalez as the lone survivor on a distant planet whois unsure how she got there or who she is. With Aaron Paul playing a fellow astronaut trying to help jog her memory about a massacre that occurred at the base, the film quickly establishes an aura of paranoia and bad vibes, paving the way for deft twists and an appreciably gory finale.
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