Tom Charity
Tom Charity is programmer for VIFF’s Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, and a film critic for CNN.com and Lovefilm.com, among others.
Online articles
Cannes Film Festival 2012
The Sight & Sound blog
Follow Nick James and our correspondents on the Croisette. Read the collated entries, or see the index of individual posts. Web exclusive, May 2012
The films of 2011 Poll
In a strong year for arthouse cinema, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life emerged as the clear winner of the S&S poll of international critics’ best films of 2011, says Nick James. from S&S January 2012
The films of 2010 Poll
The Social Network and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Remember His Past Lives head our round-up of the films and highlights of the year, as voted by 85 critics and curators. from S&S January 2011
Joe Dante: serious mischief
Always one to go his own way, Joe Dante combines 3D technology with a return to a subtler, more family-oriented brand of horror in his new film The Hole. Tom Charity tracks Dante’s anarchic streak through a 40-year career of filmmaking. from S&S October 2010
The best film books June 2010
51 leading critics and writers nominate their top five films books. A clear-cut top five emerges – and film writing may have found its Citizen Kane. from S&S June 2010
Critics on critics Survey
Leading critics choose the works of criticism which have had the greatest impact on them, inspiring them to become critics themselves, and which make a case for criticism as a minor art form in itself. From S&S October 2008