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Tom of Finland

2017

Dome Karukoski

Pekka Strang, Lauri Tilkanen, Seumas F. Sargent, Jessica Grabowsky ...

6.0

1,032

Drama Award-winning filmmaker Dome Karukoski brings to screen the life and work of one of the most influential and celebrated figures of twentieth century gay culture.

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"'Tom of Finland' chronicles Laaksonen's life in a thoughtful if conventional manner, with a lightly sanitized tone that feels oddly ill-suited to its protagonist's own supercharged porno-fascistic reveries."	NEU
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Karukoski’s film at least honors its subject’s work in some key respects: It’s handsome, smoothly executed and eager to entertain."	POS
United States	Sam C. Mac Slant	"It often excels at elevating linear, historically conscious plotting with more abstract symbolism and ellipsis (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Charles Gant Screendaily	"Audiences will be rewarded with an artfully composed and sensitively acted life story that also fairly nimbly encapsulates social and sexual progress in the second half of the 20th century."	POS
United States	Bradley Warren The Playlist	"Passable (...) Even when director Karukoski isn’t as successful in his telling of Touko’s story, he never sanitizes the images or language for straight audiences."	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"This handsome and reverential biopic still offers a thoughtful introduction to a game-changing idol and the milieux he depicted (…) [It doesn't explore] any of its crucial issues in sufficient depth (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Pekka Strang is very good as Tom (...) An intriguing demonstration of how eroticism in gay culture became overt (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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