Yes, many people are already writing their Top 10 movie lists for 2012. We're saving ours for the last week of the…
1. Killing Them Softly is a polemic disguised as a thriller, a series of scenes featuring various tiers of low-level…
Yes, many people are already writing their Top 10 movie lists for 2012. We're saving ours for the last week of the…
Over time, great individuals can attain such a level of public adoration that any sort of criticism leveled against…
In general, I don't put a lot of stock in criticisms that accuse Hollywood movies of influencing social behavior.…
1. Life of Pi is about 65 minutes of staggering cinematic beauty surrounded by 55 minutes of touchy-feely New Age…
It's hard to classify Ang Lee, whose latest movie, Life of Pi, comes out on Wednesday. He's a respected, acclaimed…
Friday brings with it the end of the half-decade scourge of the Twilight films. There have been five of them, and I…
Every year, we get plenty of costume dramas and literary adaptations, and while they come in a lot of shapes and…
1. She's a grieving cop's widow, prone to nymphomania, locked away in a shed behind her parents' home, profoundly…

With all the great directors out there to choose from—Tarantino, Spielberg, Paul Thomas Anderson—it's hard to think…
1. The opening scene of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln will probably ring false to you and confirm your preconceptions…
When Casino Royale came out in 2006, it was rightly praised for lots of reasons: Daniel Craig's…
In the spirit of Election Day, we here at Grierson & Leitch headquarters have decided to do our own formal…
1. Until the last 10 minutes, Flight in large part resembles one of those tough, dark character studies they used to…

In 1995, Quentin Tarantino, skinny, wired, at the absolute peak of his power and influence, showed up at the MTV…

It's Halloween. We're too old to dress up anymore-we've essentially been 43 since we were 14-so we thought we'd…
Pixar, Pixar. For something like a decade, every animated film has been inevitably judged by-and found short of-the…
Occasionally, one of Grierson & Leitch will disagree strongly enough with the other that a discussion is in order.…
Coverage of the Oscars has reached tail-wagging-dog proportions in recent years: Rather than an awards show looking…