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Tom Baily

Tom Baily's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Father (2020) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Yet The Father is a powerful debut. The mood of isolation with its warped sense of time and the distanced characters confined to their homes: this film reflects our present moment without labouring the point home or making the obvious analogies.” – The Arts Desk Jun 22, 2021 Full Review Milestone (2020) 85% 2/5 EDIT “A deep dive into these issues, confronting Netflix's mostly western viewers with new voices, might have offered a unique and courageous vision. Sadly Milestone plays it safe.” – The Arts Desk May 17, 2021 Full Review Night in Paradise (2020) 68% 2/5 EDIT “For all the talking in Night in Paradise there isn't a single original line of dialogue. Or a unique mob character. Or a new way of doing a bloody hit scene.” – The Arts Desk Apr 19, 2021 Full Review Wander Darkly (2020) 75% 2/5 EDIT “Sienna Miller is a formidable centrepiece in the drama about a couple forced to review their relationship history after a car crash. But she is held down by a story that feels like it was clipped together in a rush.” – The Arts Desk Apr 2, 2021 Full Review The Drifters (2019) 2/5 EDIT “[Director Benjamin] Bond does not go deep enough in his exploration or experimentation.” – The Arts Desk Apr 2, 2021 Full Review Music (2021) 7% 1/5 EDIT “Lacking any direction, Sia slips bits of each and every style in at random and fails to achieve any of them.” – The Arts Desk Feb 22, 2021 Full Review Rams (2020) 91% 3/5 EDIT “Neill and Caton are the reason to go because their performances relay so well off each other. Admirers of the original storyline might feel Sims has softened the plot tension a bit, but Rams benefits from the easygoing mood.” – The Arts Desk Feb 22, 2021 Full Review 76 Days (2020) 100% 3/5 EDIT “It stands alone in its ferocity.” – The Arts Desk Jan 26, 2021 Full Review David Byrne's American Utopia (2020) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Byrne hasn't lost anything of what he always had, and Spike Lee does interesting things with the camera, but it's hard to avoid envying the real audience we see singing and dancing in the grand Hudson Theatre.” – The Arts Desk Dec 11, 2020 Full Review The Dead and the Others (2018) 87% 4/5 EDIT “It is a film of startling visual power and mood, with a drifting storyline that becomes bizarrely captivating.” – The Arts Desk Jun 27, 2020 Full Review The Courier (2019) 10% 1/5 EDIT “The film makes for a limp and tensionless attempt at on-off drama.” – The Arts Desk Dec 23, 2019 Full Review Honey Boy (2019) 94% 3/5 EDIT “With a dash of humility and maturity, LaBeouf manages to work it through.” – The Arts Desk Dec 6, 2019 Full Review 4/5 EDIT “A graceful attempt to itemize the totality of the Holocaust by viewing it through an especially enlightening lens.” – The Arts Desk Dec 3, 2019 Full Review The Nightingale (2018) 87% 2/5 EDIT “The Nightingale remains a film of grand intent and ambition, but it just does not soar.” – The Arts Desk Dec 3, 2019 Full Review The Amber Light (2019) 4/5 EDIT “Rich with personal stories, The Amber Light studies whisky via social history: how and why the golden dram has brought people together.” – The Arts Desk Nov 25, 2019 Full Review 3/5 EDIT “These are fascinating stories...the show lets us briefly celebrate some great music. I hope that is what the artists always wanted.” – The Arts Desk Nov 4, 2019 Full Review Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) 68% 2/5 EDIT “Double Tap direly needs a better script and funnier jokes.” – The Arts Desk Oct 17, 2019 Full Review Gaza (2019) 96% 3/5 EDIT “Whilst the interviews evoke great sympathy, the "characters" here do not to want merely to be pitied. They want their stories to help create change.” – The Arts Desk Aug 7, 2019 Full Review The Dead Don't Die (2019) 55% 3/5 EDIT “It is an orchestrated confusion, lurching somewhere between a joyfully zany tribute and an over-intelligent, at times dark, social critique.” – The Arts Desk Jul 13, 2019 Full Review 4/5 EDIT “Absorbing and edifying, it is a worthy tribute.” – The Arts Desk Jul 11, 2019 Full Review Apollo 11 (2019) 99% 4/5 EDIT “Miller's success is in letting the radiant images stand alone and unfiltered.” – The Arts Desk Jun 26, 2019 Full Review Out of Blue (2018) 37% 2/5 EDIT “Like the dolorous heat of New Orleans, where the action takes place, the film's tone is too overbearing.” – The Arts Desk Apr 3, 2019 Full Review Benjamin (2018) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Amstell brings enough ingenuity and bawdy whimsy to his story to keep it feeling fresh. But only just.” – The Arts Desk Mar 13, 2019 Full Review An Impossible Love (2018) 100% 4/5 EDIT “An unbearably sad film dotted with brief glissando-like moments of sweet, sunny reprieve.” – The Arts Desk Jan 4, 2019 Full Review Free Solo (2018) 97% 4/5 EDIT “By splicing in the intimate human dramas, too, Free Solo avoids over-burdening us with dread whilst also illuminating the real characters behind the most extreme of passions.” – The Arts Desk Dec 18, 2018 Full Review
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