Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 5/25/15] | Sean Axmaker @ Parallax View
- Excerpt: You have to work to follow the narrative but Leigh’s interest isn’t on what he did when. It’s all about how and why he paints.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: An extraordinary portrait of the last stages in the life and career of Joseph Mallord William Turner, the painter of light.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: With his Cannes winner for Best Actor (Timothy Spall, “All or Nothing”) and Technical Achievement (cinematographer Dick Pope, “Another Year”), writer/director Mike Leigh (“Topsy-Turvy,” “Another Year”) has created one of the great films about an artist.
- Carlos del Río @ El rincón de Carlos del Río [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Me da la sensación de que a menos que te sepas la vida de Turner, tardas una barbaridad en meterte en la película por cómo está contada, e incluso cuando te metes, se te hace excesivamente lenta y larga.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: As per usual, the method of Leigh’s screenplay is relaxed … but the aim and details are precise.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Exquisite and erudite, it exudes color and exacting visuals…
- Roderick Heath @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: The supple moves of Leigh’s camerawork and staging gives the film an oblique, but unified tenor that skirts the dancelike and the theatrical, as everyone’s free on their stage of life, eventually compositing into a tapestrylike vision of the age.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: In Mike Leigh’s world, artist J. M. W. Turner (Timothy Spall) is a buffoon. An uncouth slob who grunts when he’s content and grunts when he’s despondent.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: This is no stuffy costume drama but a richly lived-in visit to early-19th-century England that is rough, bawdy, often funny, and more often unsettling.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Falling well within the wheelhouse of those who appreciate period costume pieces and historical dramas, Mr. Turner is a must-see for any audience member who seeks out the demanding, all-encompassing role of a lifetime.
- Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: Carried to glory by Dick Pope’s gorgeous cinematography and a sensational turn by Timothy Spall in the leading role, ‘Mr. Turner’ is a fascinating paean by one great artist to another.
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: The old man and the sea…
- Patrick Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: Four grunts for ‘Mr. Turner’
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Apoiado numa grande prestação de Timothy Spall, “Mr. Turner” é uma valorosa cinebiografia de um dos grandes pintores britânicos da história.
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Spall is a force of nature as Turner. He lurches, he shuffles, he galumphs, he snarls and grunts and growls, he seems at times more bear than man, and then more pig than bear.
- Thomas Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: It’s a turn that left me not only wanting to know more about the famous painter, but more about the man who played him.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: One of the finest films about an artist ever made, fashioned by a filmmaker who’s a notable artist himself.
- Sarah Ward @ Concrete Playground
