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Tim Grierson

Tim Grierson

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% 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 , Gawker , L.A. Weekly , Screen International , Screendaily , The Simon , Village Voice
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
440
Total QuickRatings:
1
Location:
Los Angeles

Worst Reviewed Films

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1/5 36% Ethan Mao (2004) " Nobody onscreen seems to realize that this deadeningly self-serious treatment of family dysfunction is so overwrought that it becomes a spot-on satire of low-budget ineptitude." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 11, 2005
1/5 70% My Date with Drew (2004) " If you don't find the mere presence of Eric Roberts or Corey Feldman hysterically funny, you're in for a long night." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 4, 2005
62% Salt (2010) " Director Phillip Noyce's return to major-studio filmmaking maintains a workmanlike competence throughout but lacks inspired chase sequences or diabolical smarts. " — Screen International
Posted Jul 17, 2010
41% The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) " The effects are spellbinding in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, but otherwise this Nicolas Cage fantasy film isn't particularly magical. " — Screen International
Posted Jul 9, 2010
81% Despicable Me (2010) " So if delicious nastiness isn't Despicable Me's thing, what is? Rampant, merciless cuteness. " — The Simon
Posted Jul 9, 2010
6% The Last Airbender (2010) " This live-action adaptation of an animated children's fantasy series is a leaden, joyless ride that represents another major misfire from the once-promising filmmaker." — Screen International
Posted Jun 30, 2010
81% Night Catches Us (2010) " Despite a heartfelt approach and some capable performances, Night Catches Us is a collection of thoughtful ideas in search of a screenplay. " — Screen International
Posted Jun 29, 2010
—— Mahler on the Couch (2011) " The film's visual and structural boldness only underlines the story's predictable trajectory and muddy characterizations. " — Screen International
Posted Jun 25, 2010
67% The Karate Kid (2010) " Laziness permeates every moment of director Harald Zwart's new version of The Karate Kid." — The Simon
Posted Jun 10, 2010
9% Marmaduke (2010) " This threadbare film mostly feels like a way to keep out-of-school kids occupied during summertime." — Screen International
Posted Jun 6, 2010
73% Get Him to the Greek (2010) " Brand takes center stage as the fatuously cocksure singer, but the episodic screenplay strains to give the British comic enough juicy moments to be amusingly inappropriate." — Screen International
Posted Jun 1, 2010
35% Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) " While Gyllenhaal doesn't quite elevate Prince of Persia or make it worth your while, he doesn't embarrass himself, either." — The Simon
Posted May 27, 2010
15% A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) " This would-be franchise reboot seems haunted by its reliance on genre conventions." — Screen International
Posted Apr 30, 2010
64% Harry Brown (2010) " This despairing drama is ultimately less interested in revenge fantasies than it is in exploring themes of aging and urban crime." — EmanuelLevy.Com
Posted Apr 15, 2010
41% Death at a Funeral (2010) " A depressingly strained comedy." — EmanuelLevy.Com
Posted Apr 15, 2010
28% Clash of the Titans (2010) " Visual might meets narrative meagerness. The film boasts a wealth of treats for the eye but doesn't add up to a rollicking adventure." — Screen International
Posted Mar 31, 2010
19% The Last Song (2010) " Teen sensation Miley Cyrus's bid for film stardom outside of her Hannah Montana persona gets off to a rocky start with The Last Song." — Screen International
Posted Mar 31, 2010
—— The Harimaya Bridge (2010) " The Harimaya Bridge is a movie about racism that's pretty narrow-minded in its own thinking." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 25, 2010
21% The Red Baron (Der rote Baron) (2008) " Unfortunately Muellerschoen's movie emphasizes empty grandeur over human drama." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 18, 2010
53% Green Zone (2010) " The film magnifies the obstacles in the path of anyone trying to make compelling, intelligent drama out of the most important ongoing American issue." — The Simon
Posted Mar 12, 2010
13% Cry of the Owl (2009) " Promising but ultimately frustrating." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 11, 2010
—— Dreamkiller (2010) " Dreamkiller wants to show us the dangers of becoming prisoners of our fears. Sadly, the film has no similar insights into how to escape utter boredom." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 4, 2010
68% The Yellow Handkerchief (2010) " Despite all the sad twists and turns in the central love story, the movie's most heartbreaking element is that Hurt and Bello do such good work in a fairly negligible movie." — The Simon
Posted Feb 26, 2010
65% Defendor (2009) " Likable but hardly memorable." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 25, 2010
—— Order of Chaos (2010) " It becomes painfully clear that the filmmaker actually envisions this mano-a-mano revenge tale as some sort of tortured commentary on the corruption of the American Dream." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Feb 12, 2010
18% Valentine's Day (2010) " Director Garry Marshall's ensemble romantic-comedy Valentine's Day is ultimately too superficial and slick to really touch the heart." — EmanuelLevy.Com
Posted Feb 11, 2010
34% The Wolfman (2010) " A brooding but dramatically muted reboot of the classic monster-movie franchise, director Joe Johnston's action-horror film oozes Gothic atmosphere without supplying any character to fill it." — Screen International
Posted Feb 10, 2010
60% Frozen (2010) " It's the audience which may be left feeing stranded by the film's wobbly characterizations and drawn-out drama." — Screen International
Posted Jan 28, 2010
49% Holy Rollers (2010) " Jesse Eisenberg gives an emotive, sympathetic performance as a man caught between two worlds, but eventually genre conventionality undoes this potentially novel crime story." — Screen International
Posted Jan 26, 2010
40% HappyThankYouMorePlease (2011) " Even though his characters' romantic troubles bedevil them, Radnor fails to make their plight empathetic, unintentionally turning them into whiny and self-involved individuals who don't always seem worthy of the happiness they seek." — Screen International
Posted Jan 26, 2010
86% Buried (2010) " Cruelly efficient yet ethically questionable, Buried jangles the nerves but gets into trouble when it aspires to political topicality." — Screen International
Posted Jan 25, 2010
29% Sympathy for Delicious (2011) " Mark Ruffalo's directorial debut spoofs religious fervour and rock-star excesses, but lead actor Christopher Thornton's muddled screenplay struggles to hit its targets." — Screen International
Posted Jan 25, 2010
67% Jack Goes Boating (2010) " A sensitively rendered piece which unfortunately lacks sufficient heft to work as either a romantic drama or a musing on life's daily miseries." — Screen International
Posted Jan 25, 2010
21% Leap Year (2010) " Leap Year is a romantic comedy that never rises above the predictable or inoffensive; it's pretty to look at, but it offers little nourishment for the head or heart." — EmanuelLevy.Com
Posted Jan 7, 2010
32% The Lovely Bones (2009) " Director Peter Jackson is superb when he sets up Susie's world, but once she's killed, just about nothing works well afterward." — The Simon
Posted Dec 30, 2009
66% The Blind Side (2009) " Writer-director John Lee Hancock wants to say something meaningful about racism, but he can't even get the football parts of his film right." — The Simon
Posted Dec 30, 2009
—— Iron Cross (2010) " Writer-director Joshua Newton's portentous revenge drama wants to say something meaningful about retribution and forgiveness but is overwhelmed by its own sense of dour significance." — L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 24, 2009
70% Sherlock Holmes (2009) " While Downey Jr provides his usual devil-may-care charm, this Sherlock Holmes ultimately feels like an excuse for high-energy action sequences rather than an attempt to breathe new life into a dusty literary icon." — Screen International
Posted Dec 16, 2009
0% Breaking Point (2009) " There isn't any cliché that writer Vincent Campanella and director Jeff Celentano don't treat with stoic reverence." — Village Voice
Posted Dec 2, 2009
22% 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
—— 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
46% 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
67% (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
50% Astro Boy (AstroBoy) (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
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
68% 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
43% 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
—— 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
13% 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
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
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