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By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 18 Oct 2017

Though not explicit per se, Tom of Finland is quite visceral; you can practically smell this movie, with many scenes reeking of cigarettes,…

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By Gary Goldstein (1,089) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 18 Oct 2017

Tom of Finland entertainingly recounts an intriguing and vital chapter of 20th-century gay history with style and deference…

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By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 18 Oct 2017

We all think about which films we should see from the current crop. Tom of Finland is perhaps an unusual choice but it's one I'm pleased to have seen…

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By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 17 Oct 2017

A good, strong movie, but never threatens to be great. One salivates at the adventurous directions the film could have explored…

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By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Oct 2017

The film is jammed with incident and detail but there’s little flow to the storytelling…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 12 Oct 2017

provides an intriguing glimpse into the relationship between art and commerce, set against a backdrop of cultural repression and restraint…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 12 Oct 2017

Its lively finale is heartening, given the patience that Laaksonen was obliged to exercise before he could live his life out in the open…

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By Glen Weldon (25) for NPR (1,713) on 11 Oct 2017

A decorous restraint pervades Tom of Finland - which, given its subject matter, can't help but seem puzzling; Karukoski never manages to capture…

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By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for The New York Times (9,847) on 11 Oct 2017

While Mr. Laaksonen devoted his life (1920-91) to challenging conventions, the film is committed to honoring them…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 11 Oct 2017

Dome Karukoski's film examines the life of groundbreaking gay artist Touko Laaksonen, who found fame as Tom of Finland…

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By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 10 Oct 2017

With the arrival of AIDS, everything changes and the film at last finds its theme…

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By Dan Callahan (211) for TheWrap (3,203) on 10 Oct 2017

Tom of Finland is a film about a man who was famous for very dirty drawings, but it is unfortunately restricted by a dehydrated kind of good…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Shockya.com (657) on 07 Oct 2017

Finland's entry to the Oscar competition for best foreign language film gives the audience a detailed, emotional look at one of the gay community's…

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By Mark Demetrius (73) for FILMINK (Australia) (1,405) on 02 Oct 2017

a very watchable, solid, frequently entertaining and sometimes touching true story…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for VODzilla.co (65) on 25 Aug 2017

This respectful, beautifully made biopic…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 16 Aug 2017

The film is gorgeously shot, with rich production design that plays with deep colours and bright sunshine…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 14 Aug 2017

Despite these third-act fumbles, Karukoski's drama remains a carefully observed and fascinating chronicle of 20th-century institutionalised…

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By Edward Porter (366) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 13 Aug 2017

This is dramatised vividly with the help of a sound performance by Pekka Strang, but there's a touch of typical biopic plodding, and not much context…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 12 Aug 2017

An interesting film rather than an engrossing one, and it’s hard not to wish it was a little more energised by its subject’s enduringly…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 12 Aug 2017

Tom of Finland is almost as handsome and glossy as the drawings of luxuriantly leather-clad fantasy figures with which he made his name…

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