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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    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    Moonlight
    Ambitious in scope but precise in its execution, this deceptively small-scale character piece reverberates with compassion and insight.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    Killer of Sheep
    Many small things happen in Killer of Sheep, nothing of much consequence. But the enlargement of life itself is profound.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 90 Tim Grierson
    Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
    The performances are often revelatory, but the sense of history coming alive — of the past speaking to the present — is even more riveting.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 80 Tim Grierson
    12 Years a Slave
    The broader approach to storytelling on McQueen’s part robs 12 Years A Slave of some of the precise, up-close vibrancy that was the hallmark of his earlier films. As a consequence, this new film feels a little less personal, although that criticism should not dismiss the intelligence and feeling on display.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 90 Tim Grierson
    One Battle After Another
    This audacious action-thriller is the filmmaker’s most purely entertaining vehicle, but underneath its adrenalised set pieces are quieter concerns about how best to make lasting change in a corrupt world.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 90 Tim Grierson
    I Am Not Your Negro
    Baldwin’s insights originate from 1979, but they still speak volumes, and Peck makes their observations sting.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
    A corrosive rage courses through this 163-minute odyssey that’s matched by a leavening absurdism, Jude aghast at the comical stupidity of our inauthentic, greed-driven world.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 90 Tim Grierson
    Carol
    It’s such stately, evocative, confident filmmaking, the only reservation being that it’s also a bit chilly.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    Once Upon a Time in Harlem
    A vital cinematic document. ... The conversations could not be more stimulating, offering a glimpse of Black America past and present that is joyous, defiant and sobering.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 84 Tim Grierson
    Inside Out
    Inside Out may be the best Pixar has released in a while, especially after a string of disappointing and underwhelming efforts, but what’s most cheering about the film—and most like Pixar’s celebrated classics—is that it’s so emotionally astute.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
    “My Undesirable Friends” captures dark times with some of the funniest people you’d ever hope to have as sisters-in-arms. Defiant, emotional and life-affirming, the film presents us with endearing patriots who love their country but hate its leaders, sucking us into a riveting tale with a powerful undertow.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    Past Lives
    There are three superb performances at the picture’s centre, but none is more radiant than that of Greta Lee, gracefully capturing the spirit of a searching soul who seems to understand things about the nuances of love that are beyond the grasp of the rest of us.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    No Other Land
    No Other Land’s sense of grim futility is very much the point — it’s what the strong count on in order to suppress those who oppose them. Anyone who sees this devastating film may share in that sense of hopelessness. But we can no longer say we had no idea what was going on.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    Inside Llewyn Davis
    Thanks to a sterling lead performance from Oscar Isaac, the Coen brothers have once again delivered an impressively nuanced character study — one that has much to say about art, compromise and all the aspiring hopefuls who never got their moment in the sun.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    TÁR
    TÁR’s engrossing spell starts to dissipate over its final third, and yet this is that rare film about a creative person that feels neither self-pitying nor self-aggrandising. Indeed, one of the picture’s great strengths is that it’s never entirely clear what Field thinks of his complicated heroine.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 70 Tim Grierson
    Spotlight
    A polished, engrossing procedural, Spotlight offers plenty of old-fashioned pleasures — chiefly, the sight of smart, scrappy muckraking journalists stopping at nothing to uncover systematic corruption.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    Memoria
    Graced by Tilda Swinton’s emptied-out performance as a woman haunted by a strange sound whose origins she is obsessed with uncovering, Memoria eludes easy categorisation while becoming a powerful meditation on connection, spiritual isolation and renewal.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    Here
    Hardly a conventional love story, but achingly tender nonetheless, Here is fully present and dazzlingly alive.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Tim Grierson
    BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
    Sometimes overwhelming but always penetrating, the film practically demands multiple viewings to absorb its rich collection of ideas, images and music.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Tim Grierson
    The Florida Project
    A remarkable study of poverty, family and personal responsibility, The Florida Project meticulously illustrates how life on the margins affects one impressionable six-year-old.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Tim Grierson
    Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    While this simple story may not seem inherently momentous, it speaks volumes about the ways in which women are marginalised — especially when it comes to making decisions about their own bodies.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Tim Grierson
    The Secret Agent
    If Mendonça Filho overstuffs his accomplished picture, it’s a fitting rebuke to a violent regime that would have tried to tamp down his voice. He finds a worthy partner in Moura, who embodies the rugged sex appeal and muffled anguish of a principled individual in a world gone mad.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    Burning
    Once again, Lee has crafted a film of wondrous complexity and inscrutability. The more we see in Burning, the less sure we are of what we are watching.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Tim Grierson
    It Was Just an Accident
    If It Was Just an Accident lacks the conceptual audacity of Panahi’s This Is Not a Film or 2022’s No Bears, the film’s straightforward narrative proves to be just another feint, disguising the writer-director’s anger and sorrow at his own mistreatment and that of so many Iranians
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Tim Grierson
    Ghost Tropic
    This meditative piece sidesteps ponderousness thanks to its modesty and inquisitiveness.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Tim Grierson
    Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
    The space battles and lightsaber duels are appropriately exciting, but Johnson keeps a close eye on the human element that girds this galactic odyssey. Rather than simply regurgitating Star Wars’ past, The Last Jedi emphatically builds on it.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Tim Grierson
    The Boy and the Heron
    Drawing from elements of his own childhood, Miyazaki has dreamed up a fantastical environment in which anything seems possible — including the potential to remake oneself.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Tim Grierson
    Licorice Pizza
    With shades of Robert Altman’s freewheeling spirit embedded in this tale of politicians, Hollywood producers and waterbeds, Licorice Pizza gains momentum as its ambles along, resulting in Anderson’s gentlest, most endearing picture to date.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Tim Grierson
    The Alabama Solution
    Many Americans recognise the injustices within the country’s prison system, but the case has rarely been laid out as comprehensively as it is in The Alabama Solution.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 70 Tim Grierson
    Mad Max: Fury Road
    For a while, Fury Road’s complete disinterest in screenwriting fundamentals feels liberating, as the director keeps upping the ante on this desperate chase through the desert. But what feels liberating at first can become monotonous, and Fury Road starts to drag once the frenetic sameness of Miller’s strategy takes hold.
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