All articles by Tim Grierson, Senior US Critic 1z1dq

  • Smile 2
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    ‘Smile 2’: Review 1q5x62

    2024-10-16T13:00:00Z i6y2j

    Sequel to Paramount’s 2022 horror hit lacks the crucial element of surprise

  • Piece By Piece
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    ‘Piece By Piece’: Review 3u3t1s

    2024-10-08T10:48:00Z

    Pharrell Williams proves why he is a real block star as his life gets the Lego treatment 

  • Pooja, Sir
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    ‘Pooja, Sir’: Hamburg Review 641u1d

    2024-10-03T08:00:00Z

    A police officer struggles to solve a kidapping case within Nepal’s disenfranchised Madhesi community

  • The Wild Robot
    Reviews

    ‘The Wild Robot’: Toronto Review ey52

    2024-09-11T10:01:00Z

    Lupita Nyong’o and Pedro Pascal lend their voices to this gorgeous animation about a robot finding her place in the world

  • The Assessment
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    ‘The Assessment’: Toronto Review 1l385a

    2024-09-10T09:14:00Z

    Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander head this dystopian drama in which parenthood really is a test

  • Bring Them Down
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    ‘Bring Them Down’: Toronto Review 4q2q5

    2024-09-10T09:10:00Z

    Christopher Abbott and Barry Koeghan embark on a dangerous rivalry in this rural-Ireland set debut

  • Better Man
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    ‘Better Man’: Toronto Review 1s134s

    2024-09-10T09:04:00Z

    Robbie Williams gets an inventive biopic treatment by The Greatest Showman’s Michael Gracey

  • Heretic
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    ‘Heretic’: Toronto Review 5r5f2t

    2024-09-09T06:46:00Z

    Hugh Grant plays a game of cat-and-mouse with two young Mormon missionaries in this verbose A24 chiller

  • 'Conclave'
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    ‘Conclave’: Toronto Review 3p3y26

    2024-09-09T06:23:00Z

    Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow jostle for the Vatican’s top job in this pulpy Robert Harris adaptation

  • Eden
    Reviews

    ‘Eden’: Toronto Review 6176j

    2024-09-08T07:36:00Z

    Ron Howard turns to the dark side with this star-studded true story of an island utopia gone bad starring Jude Law and Ana de Armas

  • 'Nightbitch'
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    ‘Nightbitch’: Toronto Review i3u2n

    2024-09-08T07:17:00Z

    Amy Adams takes a walk on the wild side in Marielle Heller’s story of a woman who is going to the dogs

  • 'We Live In Time’
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    ‘We Live In Time’: Toronto Review 606d4

    2024-09-07T06:17:00Z

    Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield headline John Crowley’s time-hopping relationship tearjerker

  • Sharp Corner
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    ‘Sharp Corner’: Toronto Review 5d1xm

    2024-09-07T00:20:00Z

    Ben Foster teams up with ’Blackbird’ director Jason Buxton to deliver this portrait of a ‘compelling non-entity’

  • The End
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    ‘The End’: Toronto Review 2z1w5w

    2024-09-06T22:48:00Z

    Joshua Oppenheimer’s first drama is a singular musical which details how one family es through the end of the world

  • William Tell
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    ‘William Tell’: Toronto Review 53m2e

    2024-09-06T11:30:00Z

    Claes Bang takes aim at the the legendary Swiss marksman in Nick Hamm’s dour period epic

  • Nutcrackers
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    ‘Nutcrackers’: Toronto Review 2h275

    2024-09-06T06:06:00Z

    Toronto opens with this festive comedy/drama from David Gordon Green starring Ben Stiller

  • Joker Folie À Deux
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    ‘Joker: Folie A Deux’: Venice Review 4f2x4c

    2024-09-04T17:05:00Z

    Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix fail to spark in Todd Phillips’ musical sequel

  • Paul & Paulette Take A Bath
    Reviews

    2024-09-04T12:05:00Z

    The dark tourism sites of Paris prove a quirky backdrop for this unconventional love story

  • King Ivory
    Reviews

    ‘King Ivory’: Venice Review 5p4x1i

    2024-09-02T19:05:00Z

    James Badge Dale and Ben Foster take opposite sides of America’s War on Drugs in John Swab’s lacklustre thriller

  • The Order
    Reviews

    ‘The Order’: Venice Review 4c6ny

    2024-08-31T19:35:00Z

    Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult go toe-to-toe in Justin Kurzel’s gritty crime drama set in 1980s Idaho