Tom Shone

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The Times
For 13 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Tom Shone's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Sentimental Value
Lowest review score: 40 Wuthering Heights
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
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    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Tom Shone
    The Secret Agent
    The sidewinding rhythm of the film will probably throw some, but that’s all the more reason to see it in the theatre: a lot goes on beneath the surface, the lack of signposting has a cumulative power, and the ending is a beauty, mixing heartbreak, hope and the boy, Fernando, who has been patiently waiting for his father all along.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Tom Shone
    Sentimental Value
    Reinsve seems to give nothing away and yet there’s not a scene she’s in where we’re not clued into Nora’s emotions. The acting is almost invisible. Nora, it becomes clear, is the mirror image of her father: giving free rein to her emotions only under the cover of the art.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Tom Shone
    Goodbye June
    It’s a wonderfully raw, moving and funny film about sibling niggles and family heartbreak, filled with biting humour, button-sized observation, noisy kids, frayed tempers and armpit farts. In short, a perfect movie to watch with your family as you contemplate the looming festivities.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Tom Shone
    A House of Dynamite
    By keeping us in the dark about two key facts — who launched the missile and what America does in response — Bigelow keeps her focus not on the enemy, but facing inwards, on those steely souls tasked with the West’s national defence.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Tom Shone
    Frankenstein
    Once Jacob Elordi takes the stage as the monster — sorry, the creature — everything falls into place. It’s always the way of del Toro: the monsters are better than the men.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Tom Shone
    One Battle After Another
    Hefty yet cantering, deliriously funny in places, as audacious as a moonshot — One Battle After Another is probably Anderson’s best film.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Tom Shone
    Sorry, Baby
    Sorry, Baby is of a different order of achievement. Walking a tonal tightrope between comedy and tragedy with an exquisite balance that recalls Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain of last year, the film manages to address a difficult, dark subject with a blunt candour that is also slyly funny.

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