Tim Grierson

Tim Grierson Los Angeles Times Oct 23, 2026 The movie’s guileless android will learn about love, loss and other far-too-common human experiences. Meanwhile, the audience will wonder if the sentimental pummeling will ever end. Go to Full Review Klara and the Sun (2026) 26% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Oct 21, 2026 The picture’s combination of monster movie and love story ultimately suffers from a critical weakness: neither the presentation nor the tragic antihero is novel enough to sustain a full-length feature. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 77% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Oct 12, 2026 Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s extraordinary documentary soon goes in unexpected directions, becoming an uneasy treatise on love, reality television, and the ways filmmakers try (and often fail) to capture ’real’ life. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Oct 6, 2026 Although the picture taps into the anger and anxiety surrounding AI, Simon Rich’s screenplay fails to offer any real insight into the deeply flawed humans who have gotten obscenely rich foisting this volatile technology upon the world. Go to Full Review Artificial (2026) 95% - -

Tim Grierson Los Angeles Times Oct 2, 2026 The ending is so understated yet so piercing that it may take days to process how deftly it encapsulates the shared tragedy that, decades later, still ensnares them all. Go to Full Review Atonement (2026) 93% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Sep 29, 2026 Cruise takes enormous risks playing the outlandish... character, and his daring portrait of avarice and ego is occasionally striking in its ferocity. But this ambitious misfire is consistently sabotaged by Iñárritu’s gratingly unsubtle comedic approach. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Tim Grierson Los Angeles Times Sep 28, 2026 Shake Your Booty! wants its grieving main character to get back out there on the floor, but the movie never finds a consistent rhythm for her to try it. Go to Full Review Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) 91% - -

Tim Grierson Los Angeles Times Sep 25, 2026 Occasionally, “Your Mother” indulges in genre clichés, such as gratuitous slow-motion and solemn pronouncements about the warrior’s code. But even then, the film feels energized by its bold mixture of pulp pleasures and weighty musings. Go to Full Review Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (2026) 96% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Sep 17, 2026 Helen Mirren brings a snippy panache to her portrayal of the misanthropic novelist, but the film’s excessive cleverness ultimately proves tiring rather than page-turning. Go to Full Review A Talent for Murder (2026) 78% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Sep 16, 2026 A loose-limbed drama that never feels like an indulgent therapy session or an amateurish production. It is a credit to Saiz and his three actors that Lionel impressively balances different tones. Go to Full Review Lionel (2025) - - - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Sep 15, 2026 This very amusing film benefits from fun deadpan turns by Léa Seydoux, Dave Bautista and Chris Pine, and the extra-terrestrials’ 1950s-biker aesthetic is plenty fetching. But eventually Alpha Gang overstays its welcome. Go to Full Review Alpha Gang (2026) 74% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Sep 15, 2026 Scoot McNairy brings a wounded authenticity to his portrayal of this killer, but Nelson’s laudable thematic intentions are undercut by some familiar narrative trappings and questionable character motivations. Go to Full Review The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd (2026) 83% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Sep 15, 2026 Even when The Debut goes to extremes to make its points, Julianne Moore’s marvellously gutsy performance gives the proceedings an emotional anchor, never allowing the viewer to mock this naive, deeply sad woman who at last commands centre stage. Go to Full Review The Debut (2026) 91% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Sep 13, 2026 Although sometimes a tad too concerned with being an agreeable crowd-pleaser, this thoughtful comedy-drama looks at the pros and cons of parenthood from several angles, giving each side a fair hearing. Go to Full Review Babies (2026) 88% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Sep 13, 2026 The writer/director’s ideas prove more compelling than his plotting, but this thought-provoking film asks tough questions about the challenges Black entertainers face, and about why creative women must often choose between stability and their art. Go to Full Review Misty Green (2026) 61% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Sep 12, 2026 [An] entertaining procedural that grows angrier as it barrels forward. The Assassin(s) focuses on three characters who work together to unravel the truth and the deeper the conspiracy goes, the more engaging the narrative becomes Go to Full Review The Assassin(s) (2026) 100% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Sep 12, 2026 The film enters a minefield of fraught ethical and emotional questions but consistently glosses over them, all in the name of delivering a manipulative tearjerker. Go to Full Review Up Against It (2026) 45% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Sep 12, 2026 Unfortunately, those good intentions are diminished when Heder reduces a major moment in the history of disability rights to just another feel-good picture. Go to Full Review Being Heumann (2026) 84% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Sep 12, 2026 On its surface, the film is a critique of patriarchy, but it’s a testament to Haigh and his cast that potentially obvious themes are instead explored with rich nuance. Go to Full Review A Long Winter (2026) 79% - -

Tim Grierson Screen International Sep 9, 2026 A noticeable lack of inspired filmmaking permeates the proceedings, resulting in a disappointing finale that too cosily embraces modern blockbusters’ least-welcome conventions. Go to Full Review The Uprising (2026) 57% - -