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Tom Charity

Tom Charity's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Village Voice film critic.

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If Only I Could Hibernate (2023) 100% EDIT “Its schematics may be obvious, but Zoljargal Purevdash’s debut about a gifted teenager living in the impoverished yurt district of Mongolia’s capital shows great ambition and promise. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Only the River Flows (2023) 85% EDIT “Despite the film’s absurdist streak, there’s no mistaking its subversive edge, and comparisons to Bong Joon Ho’s Memories of Murder, and Mother, are clearly on point.” – Sight & Sound Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Good One (2024) 98% EDIT “Good One is a backwoods horror film after all – even if there’s no physical violence. It’s a horror film in which nothing much happens, but for Sam the world is turned upside down.” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Islands (2025) 96% EDIT “It’s a bold move to build an entire film around an unspoken suspicion while staving off Antonioni-ennui, but Gerster pulls it off.” – Sight & Sound Sep 12, 2025 Full Review The Fabelmans (2022) 92% 5/5 EDIT “At times, The Fabelmans feels like a marathon session on the therapist’s couch, but that’s not really a criticism; the movie is rich in barbed Jewish humour, eccentricity, and prodigious teenage wheeler-dealing.” – The Times (UK) Sep 13, 2022 Full Review My Policeman (2022) 44% 2/5 EDIT “... An earnest, heavy-handed adaptation of Bethan Roberts’s tragic love story, for which the word “plodding” seems all too appropriate.” – The Times (UK) Sep 13, 2022 Full Review Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) 88% EDIT “Beautifully directed, unsentimental and darkly funny.” – Time Out Apr 8, 2020 Full Review Greed (2019) 50% EDIT “Too many scenes never land any jokes, or falter in a no-man's-land between comedy and character drama.” – Sight & Sound Oct 10, 2019 Full Review Uncut Gems (2019) 91% EDIT “Uncut Gems is a prime slab of concentrated pulp storytelling in 135 New York minutes, gripping and remorseless, and probably the cruellest, funniest joke of Adam Sandler's career.” – Sight & Sound Sep 27, 2019 Full Review The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) 92% EDIT “Armando Iannucci's rollicking adaptation announces itself as a radical and progressive reclamation of the heritage 'lit pic' from the off.” – Sight & Sound Sep 10, 2019 Full Review Observe and Report (2009) 51% EDIT “More than once, writer-director Jody Hill teases out the slippy, gray area between a subversive gross-out gag and something unsettlingly misogynist. He wants to push buttons, and he's talented enough to get away with it.” – CNN.com Apr 10, 2019 Full Review Jennifer's Body (2009) 47% EDIT “The bitingly smart, funny teen-speak is carried over from "Juno," along with sharp pop culture references and a sassy feminist attitude, but the million-dollar question has to be: Is it scary? Only occasionally, I'm afraid.” – CNN.com Mar 28, 2019 Full Review Don Juan DeMarco (1995) 70% EDIT “It's a joy to see Brando throwing himself into the spirit of the thing, ardently courting his perplexed wife of 30 years, a ravished Dunaway (they share a lovely five-minute bed scene -- in one, uninterrupted take).” – Time Out Mar 4, 2019 Full Review Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) 82% EDIT “While some of Moore's shtick feels old hat there is a renewed urgency about his message.” – Sight & Sound Jan 2, 2019 Full Review Shadow (2018) 94% 4 EDIT “Zhang seems more taken with the chichi set decoration than the bodies posed in front of it.” – Sight & Sound Jan 2, 2019 Full Review Renaissance Man (1994) 13% EDIT “In essence, a painfully earnest sit-com.” – Time Out Dec 4, 2018 Full Review Real Steel (2011) 60% EDIT “It's as corny as Kansas, but the mix of old fashioned heart and new fangled animatronic cyber tech will make this picture a winner for fathers and sons.” – CNN.com Nov 14, 2018 Full Review Something Big (1971) 0% EDIT “One gruesome symptom of the Death of the Western was the 'comedy Western', a messy, confused genre that flourished briefly... Occasionally, the genre produced the odd bizarre gem, but this was one of the less honourable efforts.” – Time Out Oct 31, 2018 Full Review The Others (2001) 84% EDIT “Shrewdly cast, Kidman is pitch perfect. It's a clammy, ingenious film, one of the best studio movies of the year.” – Time Out Oct 30, 2018 Full Review There Will Be Blood (2007) 91% EDIT “[There is] a jaw-dropping, annihilating ending to a bold, deeply American, success story.” – Cinema Scope Oct 11, 2017 Full Review Post Tenebras Lux (2012) 53% EDIT “If Reygadas set out to make an intuitive, pre-cognitive film, then this mysterious, intangible but profoundly resonant prologue comes closest to realizing that dream.” – Cinema Scope Oct 11, 2017 Full Review A Field in England (2013) 86% EDIT “A Field in England can be seen as a dying man's fever dream, or even a sojourn into the afterlife, a vision of hell in which O'Neill must be Lucifer.” – Cinema Scope Oct 11, 2017 Full Review Tracks (2013) 83% EDIT “John Curran eschews hollow moralizing, opting instead for Herzogian spectacle with discreet, if somewhat shallow, psychological underpinnings.” – Cinema Scope Oct 11, 2017 Full Review The Wonders (2014) 96% EDIT “The Wonders signals the maturation of a significant cinematic talent, and kudos to Jane Campion and her jury for recognizing as much.” – Cinema Scope Oct 11, 2017 Full Review Timbuktu (2014) 98% EDIT “For a century or more the name Timbuktu has been shorthand for an impossibly remote exoticism, at least to Western ears, but with clarity and compassion Sissako dissolves any barriers to understanding, and insists on common cause.” – Cinema Scope Oct 11, 2017 Full Review
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