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Tim Grierson

Tim Grierson is a contributing editor at MEL. He writes about film and pop culture for Screen International, Rolling Stone and Vulture.

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Paul Thomas Anderson Has Found Happiness

With ‘Licorice Pizza,’ the one-time enfant terrible continues to map a new course toward contentment without sacrificing any of his artistic ambition

‘The Hurt Locker’ Told Us Everything We Needed to Know About Jeremy Renner

The star-making turn in the Oscar-winning film played to his considerable strengths. But his subsequent choices have often revealed the challenges character actors face trying to be movie stars

Rod Stewart Got the Last Laugh With ‘Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?’

Disco-haters yelled sellout when the ‘Maggie May’ superstar concocted this frothy hit. But his salute to two shy, horny strangers revealed a lot about straight men’s discomfort with their own sexiness

Tom Hanks Has Never Stopped Loving ‘Cloud Atlas’ — And Neither Have I

In ‘Procession,’ Six Sexual-Abuse Survivors Turn Their Trauma into Movies

What Did the ‘Frat Pack’ Mean, Anyway?

Kenneth Branagh Shocked the World With ‘Henry V.’ Then He Had to Live Up to It

Make Dwayne Johnson Funny Again: In Praise of ‘Central Intelligence’

What Mexico’s Police Force Can Teach Us About Ours

The World Will Never Let Nick Hornby Live Down His Negative ‘Kid A’ Review

In Praise of Tom Hanks’ Apple Movies That No One’s Heard Of

The ‘Halloween’ Theme Is the Nightmare From Which You Can’t Wake Up