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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Patrick Marber’s powerful debut about gambling men is 30 years old, born as the Eighties entrepreneurial boom was starting to sour but...

When Giuseppe Torelli made the journey from his birthplace of Verona to Bologna in the late 17th century, the trumpet was still seen as something...

"Julie's story takes place everywhere", says the writer-director Leonardo Van Dijl, whose psychological drama Julie Keeps Quiet has...

Over its crisp 32 minutes and nine songs, Altogether Stranger embraces electropop, lo-fi terrain and gothic solo contemplation. By...

Fragile egos abound. An older person (usually a man) has to bring the best out of the stars, but mustn’t neglect the team ethic....

Mountainish by Zsuzsanna Gahse is a collection of 515 notes, each contributing to an expansive kaleidoscope of mountain encounters....

All We Imagine as Light focuses on the lives of three women in contemporary...

I came to Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s Wigmore Hall recital on Saturday armed with a certain degree of scepticism. Not about the siblings’...

Opera North have recently pioneered a way of presenting some big works which they call “dramatic concert stagings”, performing in concert halls as...