Rotten Tomatoes
Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes
Critics list

Tom Charity

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

Village Voice film critic.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Eureka (2023) 83% EDIT “Eureka is a bold attempt to unmoor us, switch around the signposts and un-map terra cognita, embracing both mystery and simplicity as the keys to possibility. ” – Sight & Sound Apr 30, 2026 Full Review 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) 92% 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
No Reviews Yet
Load More