ROTTEN TOMATOES: Tim Grierson

TIM GRIERSON

Agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

Biography: Tim is a film and music critic whose writing has appeared in LA Weekly, Blender, Wired, Screen International, The Village Voice, and VH1.com. He is also an editor of The Simon, an online publication of culture, politics, and humor, and is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Publications: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul, EmanuelLevy.Com, L.A. Weekly, Screen International, Screendaily, The Simon, Village Voice

Critics' Group: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 253

Location: Los Angeles

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Fresh	Fresh 81%	Broken Embraces (2009)	" It's an easy film to like, but to love it you have to have spent your entire life learning everything about the world from other films." — The Simon Posted Nov 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009)	" Sweeping, elegant, completely enjoyable, but rarely revelatory." — The Simon Posted Nov 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Red Cliff (2009)	" *John Woo doesn't make films, he makes movies -- and Red Cliff* is one pretty darn good movie.*" — The Simon* Posted Nov 19, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 17%	Planet 51 (2009)	" *At a time when so many other animated films are actively pushing the envelope, Planet 51* just bottom-feeds.*" — The Simon* Posted Nov 19, 2009
Rotten	N/A	Blood Equity (2009)	" Blood Equity�s simplistic approach and shoddy production values diminish the urgency of its content." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 77%	Collapse (2009)	" *Like with The Fog of War, Collapse* is intentionally, deceptively one-dimensional, and it's up to you to fill in the other half of the debate with your own opinions.*" — The Simon* Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	The Messenger (2009)	" In his directorial debut, Moverman is a very confident filmmaker, one who can sustain unbroken scenes of over 10 minutes without making it seem self-indulgent or gimmicky." — The Simon Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 56%	Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)	" *The greatest tension in this adaptation of A Christmas Carol* isn't between Scrooge and those pesky ghosts but within writer-director Robert Zemeckis.*" — The Simon* Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 59%	Pirate Radio (2009)	" *To enjoy Pirate Radio* you have to accept its bits-and-pieces format. And you probably will also have always secretly wanted to be a disc jockey as a kid.*" — The Simon* Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Treeless Mountain (2009)	" A series of plotless, episodic incidents that slowly build to understated emotional crescendos." — The Simon Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Paranormal Activity (2009)	" I think it's more fun and inventive than really frightening, but that's not to say it doesn't have a significant amount of creepy-crawly moments that are very, very effective." — The Simon Posted Nov 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)	" *Moment by moment, Precious* walks a predictable path but keeps us off-balance because Daniels consistently executes scenes slightly differently than what we expect.*" — The Simon* Posted Nov 5, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 54%	The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)	" Nagging deficiencies aside, I can't deny that I found this to be a fizzy, funny little romp." — The Simon Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten	N/A	Everybody's Fine (2009)	" The film�s finale is so generically feel-good that it�s hard to feel much of anything watching it." — Screen International Posted Nov 5, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 47%	Ong Bak 2 (2009)	" Ong Bak 2 can't possibly match the novelty and inspired acrobatics of the original, but Tony Jaa gives this new entry enough kick to keep audiences more than satisfied." — Screen International Posted Oct 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 95%	35 Shots of Rum (2009)	" Characters tend not to say things that are explicit. We piece together bits of information from here and there, and we're left to draw some conclusions on our own." — The Simon Posted Oct 22, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 69%	(Untitled) (2009)	" Sort of a parody of the cliquish New York art scene, but also a defense of it." — The Simon Posted Oct 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	A Serious Man (2009)	" The agony and dread that permeate this film never waver." — The Simon Posted Oct 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 70%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" *Much like Eyes Wide Shut* or a David Lynch film, Where the Wild Things Are works on the level of the conscious and subconscious.*" — The Simon* Posted Oct 22, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 48%	Antichrist (2009)	" *For those with a strong constitution, Lars von Trier's Antichrist* has much to recommend. It's got gore and shocks, but most of the horror will occur in your mind.*" — The Simon* Posted Oct 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	A Woman Under The Influence (1974)	" Falk and the rest of the cast are exceptional -- even the smallest roles feel spot-on -- but Rowlands is the film." — Village Voice Posted Oct 20, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 48%	Astro Boy (2009)	" Almost 60 years after his comic-book inception, the iconic Japanese robot Astro Boy finally makes his cinematic debut in a feature that, unfortunately, feels as if it has been assembled from spare parts." — Screen International Posted Oct 16, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 72%	Julia (2008)	" If you're feeling adventurous, seek it out. Swinton's masterful performance as the flailing, desperate L.A. alcoholic Julia will more than reward your time." — The Simon Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Still Walking (2009)	" Precisely observed and unfailingly modest and graceful, the 24 hours or so chronicled by Kore-Eda are pregnant with resentment, sadness and love." — The Simon Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 81%	Beeswax (2009)	" *if Beeswax* doesn't feel as significant as his last film, Mutual Appreciation, it's that movie's equal in terms of lovingly gnomic characters and very real anxieties.*" — The Simon* Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 76%	The Informant! (2009)	" *Between this film and The Girlfriend Experience, Soderbergh has had himself a great year." — The Simon* Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 94%	An Education (2009)	" Sarsgaard is great as a very nice man who's really very rotten the more you think about it." — The Simon Posted Oct 15, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 9%	Opa! (2009)	" Your reviewer did correctly guess just about everything that transpired in Opa!, the only surprise being that the climactic finale hinges on a PowerPoint presentation. It�s as romantic as it sounds." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	The Damned United (2009)	" *You may have read that it's hard to follow The Damned United* if you don't follow soccer. Hogwash -- all you need is an interest in the egos that drive professional sports.*" — The Simon* Posted Oct 9, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 42%	New York, I Love You (2009)	" *Predictably, not all of these 11 short films fully connect, but after a few early duds, New York�s stronger sequences present themselves, making this an affair to remember if not quite cherish." — Screen International* Posted Oct 1, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)	" In his feature debut, writer-director J Blakeson has concocted a grimy, twisty tale that occasionally pushes plausibility but is buoyed by three strong central performances." — Screen International Posted Sep 24, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 56%	The Invention of Lying (2009)	" Invention of Lying has more than its fair share of genuine laughs to go along with its abundance of heart." — EmanuelLevy.Com Posted Sep 24, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 83%	Youth in Revolt (2010)	" Michael Cera, practically the poster-child for this strain of hip comedies, plays yet another awkward teen looking to win the girl, but like the film itself, he�s spinning his wheels a bit." — Screen International Posted Sep 17, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Whip It (2009)	" Whip It greatly benefits from Barrymore�s breezy approach and her large female cast�s camaraderie." — Screen International Posted Sep 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 95%	Up in the Air (2009)	" It�s one of those rare mainstream Hollywood pictures that addresses contemporary issues gracefully." — Screen International Posted Sep 14, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 45%	Jennifer's Body (2009)	" Director Karyn Kusama and star Megan Fox seem uncertain if they�re satirising the conventions of teen gore-fests or simply catering to their core audience�s expectations." — Screen International Posted Sep 10, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 38%	X Games 3D: The Movie (2009)	" Although the novelty of 3-D adds some drama to the contests, your snazzy glasses do nothing to block out the inanity that comes from the mouths of the participants, the play-by-play commentators, and narrator Emile Hirsch." — Village Voice Posted Aug 18, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 58%	A Perfect Getaway (2009)	" A Perfect Getaway is never great, but Twohy isn't aspiring for greatness -- he's after gritty and lively and weird. And that's good enough." — Village Voice Posted Aug 4, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 90%	District 9 (2009)	" Starts out as a genuinely disturbing treatise on bigotry before devolving into a violent blitzkrieg that lacks the inventiveness of the story's earlier sequences." — Screen International Posted Aug 4, 2009
Rotten	N/A	American Cowslip (2009)	" Rather than funny ha-ha, this is all meant to be funny sad, but American Cowslip�s clunky pacing, chintzy aesthetics and aggressively juvenile tone vaporize any possible sympathy for the characters." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 29, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 15%	The Ugly Truth (2009)	" The Ugly Truth deals with the battle between the sexes, but the main casualties here are viewers of this coarse, contrived romantic comedy." — Screen International Posted Jul 20, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Kambakkht Ishq ()	" A sexy, dopey film that believes all you need for an entertaining night out are copious amounts of dancing, singing, broad clowning and gorgeous people." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 67%	Public Enemies (2009)	" As expected, Mann's period piece is technically flawless and visually accomplished, but the more heartening news is that this perfectionist filmmaker doesn't let the stylish action completely overwhelm his characters." — Screen International Posted Jun 25, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Superstar (2009)	" Superstar exhibits a tender, intelligent sweetness, which helps to temper the utter conventionality and more melodramatic moments." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 18, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 43%	The Proposal (2009)	" A likeable romantic comedy featuring two charismatic leads who can�t quite escape the shackles of a predictable storyline." — Screen International Posted Jun 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 66%	Away We Go (2009)	" Frustratingly uneven but eventually emotionally satisfying." — Screen International Posted Jun 1, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 81%	Owl and the Sparrow (2008)	" Owl and the Sparrow is yet one more film that preaches the importance of opening your heart and reaching out to those around you, but that treacly sentiment is nicely undercut by the unvarnished naturalness of the actors." — Village Voice Posted May 27, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 78%	The Hangover (2009)	" Proudly inappropriate and buoyed by both a clever script and some obvious chemistry between the film�s male leads, director Todd Phillips� comedy will play like gangbusters with men and may even attract some women who know and love knuckleheads." — Screen International Posted May 26, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 18%	Dance Flick (2009)	" *While there's certainly ample comedic sport to be had at the expense of the recent glut of overly melodramatic teen dance dramas, Dance Flick* rarely stays on the beat.*" — Screen International* Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 44%	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	" On the whole, this pumped-up sequel proves to be a more satisfying kid-friendly action film than the original." — Screen International Posted May 20, 2009

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