All articles by Tim Grierson, Senior US Critic – Page 7
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Reviews‘The Holdovers’: Toronto Review
Alexander Payne reunites with his ‘Sideways’ star Paul Giamatti for this wistful 1970-set character study
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Reviews‘Pain Hustlers’: Toronto Review
Emily Blunt shines in this otherwise muted true-life tale of a corrupt American pharmaceutical company
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Reviews‘The Critic’: Toronto Review
Ian McKellen is a gloriously acerbic 1930s theatre critic in a film that proves too genteel for its central character
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Reviews‘Rustin’: Toronto Review
Colman Domingo plays the man behind the March on Washington - who found himself sidelined because he was gay
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Reviews‘In Restless Dreams: The Music Of Paul Simon’: Toronto Review
Alex Gibney documents the work of Paul Simon in this extensive tour guided by the musician himself
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Reviews‘Seven Veils’: Toronto Review
Atom Egoyan reunites with Amanda Seyfried for this story of a troubled opera director who is staging ’Salome’
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Reviews‘Together 99’: Toronto Review
Lukas Moodysson presents a tender sequel to his 2000 portrait of a Stockholm commune
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Reviews‘Dear Jassi’: Toronto Review
Tarsem Sing Dhandwar dramatises the true story of an Indian couple who fell foul of the class system
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Reviews‘Quiz Lady’: Toronto Review
Awkwafina and Sandra Oh team up for a road trip to a game show for director Jessica Yu
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Reviews‘The Teacher’: Toronto Review
A teacher in Palestine is forced to confront his violent past in this passionate but uneven debut
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Reviews‘A Haunting In Venice’: Review
Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot takes on the supernatural in his juiciest case to date
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Reviews‘Mother, Couch’: Toronto Review
Ewan McGregor is driven to distraction by his defiant mother in this off-kilter adaptation of the Swedish novel
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Reviews‘Dicks: The Musical’: Toronto Review
Off-Broadway adaptation is a musical riot although there’s diminishing returns to this campily cult show
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Reviews‘Dumb Money’: Toronto Review
Director Craig Gillespie recreates the 2020 GameStop share affair with Paul Dano in the lead role
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Reviews‘American Fiction’: Toronto Review
Cord Jefferson’s impressive debut is a portrait of a frustrated Black author played with relish by Jeffrey Wright
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Reviews‘Reptile’: Toronto Review
Benicio del Toro impresses in an otherwise lacklustre Netflix cop drama
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Reviews‘Les Indesirables’: Toronto Review
A wealthy mayor takes on a Parisian immigrant tenement in Ladj Ly’s highly-charged follow up to ‘Les Miserables’
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Reviews‘The Royal Hotel’: Toronto Review
Kitty Green delivers a further devastating drama on toxic masculinity, working again with ’The Assistant’s’ Julia Garner
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Reviews‘The Boy And The Heron’: Toronto Review
TIFF opener is Hayao Miyazaki’s long awaited return to film-making
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Reviews‘Gasoline Rainbow’: Venice Review
The Ross brothers follow up ‘Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets’ with this semi-improvised story of a teenage roadtrip from Oregon to the Pacific Ocean