Tom Shone is an American film critic and writer. He was theSunday Times film critic from 1994 to 1999 and has written forVogue,Slate, theNew Yorker, theNew York Times andThe Guardian.^[1]

He is the author ofBlockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer, published in 2004 bySimon & Schuster.^[2] The book is an analysis of the Hollywood blockbuster phenomenon driven chiefly bySteven Spielberg andGeorge Lucas in the 1970s, based on interviews with these and other filmmakers. Shone's first novel,In the Rooms was published in the U.K. byHutchinson on July 2, 2009 and in the U.S. by St Martin's Press in 2011. He also wrote the booksMartin Scorsese: A Retrospective^[3] andWoody Allen: A retrospective, published in 2014 and 2015.^[4]

Shone collaborated withChristopher Nolan for an in-depth look at the filmmaker's work, calledThe Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan (2020).^[5]Library Journal wrote in their review that "this is the definitive word on Nolan and a must for film buffs."^[6]Neal Gabler called the book "intelligent, illuminating, rigorous, and highly readable. The very model of what a filmmaking study should be. Essential reading for anyone who cares about Nolan or about film for that matter."^[5]

• Blog:http://tomshone.blogspot.com/

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