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Tom Shone is a British film critic and writer who served as the Sunday Times film critic from 1994 to 1999. He is best known for his 2004 book Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer, published by Simon and Schuster, and for The Nolan Variations (2020), a study of Christopher Nolan's films produced in collaboration with the director.
Blockbuster analyzes the Hollywood blockbuster phenomenon, tracing it to the work of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas in the 1970s. Published by Simon and Schuster in 2004, it is based on interviews with Spielberg, Lucas, and other filmmakers.
In the Rooms was published in the UK by Hutchinson on the 2nd of July 2009. St. Martin's Press released the American edition in 2011.
Shone has written for Vogue, Slate, the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Guardian, in addition to his five years as the Sunday Times film critic from 1994 to 1999.
Library Journal called The Nolan Variations "the definitive word on Nolan and a must for film buffs." Neal Gabler described it as "intelligent, illuminating, rigorous, and highly readable" and called it "essential reading for anyone who cares about Nolan or about film."
Tom Shone was educated in the UK and attended Varndean Sixth Form College in Brighton, Sussex.