Tom Baily

Articles By Tom Baily

The Father review - gripping dementia drama Friday, 11 June 2021 Read more...	Ferry review - the making of a Dutch gangster Monday, 17 May 2021 Read more...
Milestone review - parable of an aging trucker Monday, 10 May 2021 Read more...	Night in Paradise review - lukewarm bloodbath Sunday, 11 April 2021 Read more...
The Drifters review - lovers-on-the-run with little moral depth Friday, 02 April 2021 Read more...	Wander Darkly review - bold psychodrama falls short Saturday, 13 March 2021 Read more...
Music review - a few music videos cobbled together Friday, 19 February 2021 Read more...	Rams review – softhearted bush-loving drama Saturday, 06 February 2021 Read more...
76 Days review - disturbing record of the initial outbreak of Covid-19 Wednesday, 20 January 2021 Read more...	American Utopia review - the new age of the concert movie Friday, 11 December 2020 Read more...
The Dead and the Others review – dreamlike journey set in indigenous Brazilian community Friday, 26 June 2020 Read more...	Hillary, Sky Documentaries review - facing the fire and fury Friday, 12 June 2020 Read more...
A Russian Youth, MUBI review - First World War setting, contemporary orchestra Thursday, 30 April 2020 Read more...	The Courier review – lacklustre hit job goes bad in every way Saturday, 21 December 2019 Read more...
Honey Boy review - coming to terms with dad Friday, 06 December 2019 Read more...	The Nightingale review – revenge without redemption Monday, 02 December 2019 Read more...

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

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Having carved a swathe of terror and destruction through the Axis forces in North Africa, the SAS return for a second series (again written by...

As always, great concerts have outnumbered great opera productions over a year, and all of our national orchestras can be proud of their record. I...

In an ideal world an end-of-year roundup would applaud only new ventures – fresh productions that you may curse for having missed but whose...

Billie Holiday sings again, Olivia Laing tends to her garden, and Biran Klaas takes a chance: our reviewers discuss their favourite...

Young eldritch junkie Nick Cave would have struggled to predict his maturity as a font of wry and sacred wisdom, or the fathomless loss he...

Maybe it was the timing, even though most of the action takes place in bright sunlight...

I thought I might never be able to say it’s been a great year for...

“O stay and hear,” sings Twelfth Night’s jester Feste in his song “O mistress mine”, “your true love’s coming,/ That can sing both high...

Looking back over the past 12 months, it struck me how it has been the shows fashioned from personal stories that have stayed with me. It wasn't...