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Tom Beasley

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Biography:

Tom Beasley is a London-based freelance film critic and journalist who writes regularly for Yahoo Movies UK, Gizmodo, Flickering Myth and VultureHound. He is also a podcaster and interviewer.

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Hamnet (2025) 86% 5/5 EDIT “As one might expect from a filmmaker as intelligent as Zhao, this is a deeply thoughtful movie that asks questions about life, death, and the limits of what human beings can do.” – Voice Magazine Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% 2/5 EDIT “As a pure filmmaking effort, it’s remarkable. Unfortunately, it’s much less compelling as an actual viewing experience.” – Voice Magazine Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Ebony & Ivory (2024) 73% 3/5 EDIT “The film is as exhausting as it is silly, even at just 85 minutes long, but there’s something to be admired about it.” – Voice Magazine Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Queen of the Ring (2024) 73% 2/5 EDIT “All of the sepia-toned cinematography and twangy guitar music in the world isn’t enough to help Queen of the Ring. Way before the end, I was ready to tap out.” – Voice Magazine Sep 16, 2025 Full Review The Thursday Murder Club (2025) 77% 2/5 EDIT “It’s not bad per sé, but it is dismally perfunctory and about as lively as the various corpses that turn up throughout the story.” – Voice Magazine Aug 30, 2025 Full Review The Toxic Avenger (2023) 87% 2/5 EDIT “It’s schlock karaoke delivered like the movie equivalent of pre-ripped jeans and a bowtie placed artfully askew – the appearance of mayhem without any sense of genuine anarchy.” – Voice Magazine Aug 27, 2025 Full Review The Ugly Stepsister (2025) 96% 2/5 EDIT “No matter how many toes it slices off, the slipper still doesn’t fit.” – Voice Magazine May 8, 2025 Full Review The Surfer (2024) 84% 4/5 EDIT “For the most part, Cage is guided by the material rather than his oddball impulses. By the time he erupts like a sweaty Vesuvius, we’re right there with him.” – Voice Magazine May 7, 2025 Full Review Thunderbolts* (2025) 88% 3/5 EDIT “This is still a muddled and confused movie, but it’s elevated by a smart script, solid performances, and crunchy action sequences which rely on flailing fists rather than CGI aliens and laser beams.” – Voice Magazine May 5, 2025 Full Review A Minecraft Movie (2025) 48% EDIT “'Show don't tell' is about as vital a rule of cinema as it's possible to find. Minecraft doesn't so much flout that rule as it does build a wall of green blocks around it.” – Yahoo! Movies Apr 10, 2025 Full Review Companion (2025) 93% EDIT “By allowing itself to fully break free of its chains, it pushes the killer robot concept to its ludicrous limit and beyond.” – Yahoo! Movies Feb 4, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% 4/5 EDIT “"It’s the sort of hulking creative monument that Hollywood seldom has room for in the 21st century."” – Voice Magazine Jan 23, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% 4/5 EDIT “This sort of mature, knotty portrait of a complex icon is exactly what the biopic is all about.” – Voice Magazine Jan 14, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% EDIT “It's a sexually-charged story in which nobody seems to be getting any sexual charge out of what happens.” – Yahoo! Movies Jan 13, 2025 Full Review We Live in Time (2024) 79% 5/5 EDIT “All of human life is here in this film and it’s a joy to watch it flash by your eyes. It might just make you value your own life even more.” – Voice Magazine Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Red One (2024) 30% EDIT “The problem is that Red One seems to either hate Christmas or fundamentally misunderstand it as a concept.” – Voice Magazine Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% 3/5 EDIT “Wears the clothes of a political thriller underneath the billowing robes of Catholic traditionalism. ” – Voice Magazine Nov 26, 2024 Full Review Paddington in Peru (2024) 93% 4/5 EDIT “"Dougal Wilson has decided not just to look after this bear, but to treat him like family. And in a world full of grey clouds, literal and metaphorical, that’s worth its weight in gold – or marmalade."” – Voice Magazine Nov 5, 2024 Full Review Venom: The Last Dance (2024) 40% EDIT “If you can’t enjoy Tom Hardy sitting in stony silence while his alien lover croons along joyfully to Space Oddity inside his head, then I don’t know what to tell you.” – The Popcorn Muncher (Substack) Oct 30, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% EDIT “There must be a Venn diagram middle section of people who love both edgelord internet philosophy and visual nods to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, but you need a microscope to find it.” – The Popcorn Muncher (Substack) Oct 13, 2024 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% EDIT “Fargeat’s movies are assaultive and guttural, delivering their messages with the fearsome aggression of a sledgehammer to the sternum.” – The Popcorn Muncher (Substack) Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Red Rooms (2023) 96% EDIT “An immersive journey into the very real grubbiness of the world we have allowed technology to build around us.” – The Popcorn Muncher (Substack) Sep 8, 2024 Full Review AfrAId (2024) 25% EDIT “Every line of dialogue is stilted, every theme is spelled out in laboriously literal terms, and the characters never feel even close to human.” – The Popcorn Muncher (Substack) Sep 8, 2024 Full Review The Echo (2023) 100% EDIT “This is a movie that rewards patient audiences, but represents something of a challenge to others.” – The Popcorn Muncher (Substack) Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 78% EDIT “This isn’t really a movie. It’s just a lame Reddit thread upvoted by Kevin Feige. Surely, after more than 15 years of cultural dominance, Marvel can do better than that.” – The Popcorn Muncher (Substack) Jul 26, 2024 Full Review
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