Mr. Turner

2014

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: December 19, 2014 | R

Starring: Amy Dawson, Dorothy Atkinson, Karl Johnson, Lesley Manville, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Ruth Sheen, Sandy Foster, Timothy Spall

Summary: Mr. Turner explores the last quarter century of the life of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (Timothy Spall). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives… Expand

Director: Mike Leigh

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History

Rating: R

Runtime: 150 min

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Joe Morgenstern

Dec 18, 2014

When we peruse this movie, we see a superb evocation of Turner’s latter years, during the first half of the 19th century, and a performance that’s symphonic in the sweep of its eccentricities, vivid in the spectrum of its passions. Read full review

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Ann Hornaday

Dec 23, 2014

Through it all, Spall is equally enigmatic and transfixing: With his guttural croaks and barks, his Turner is often difficult to understand, but, thanks to Spall’s amazing physical performance and Leigh’s sensitive, information-laden direction, he’s never incomprehensible. Read full review

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Jeff Baker

Jul 14, 2015

A movie as bold and deep as a Turner landscape, as sharp as light on water. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

Mar 1, 2015

Relaxed editing and well-researched set and costumes give us a firm feeling of the period, and Dick Pope (who has worked with Leigh 10 times) excels. It’s a cliche to say a cinematographer does painterly work, but Pope suffuses the screen with light in the way Turner did his canvases. Read full review

Keith Phipps

Dec 17, 2014

Leigh’s generous approach to capturing the fullness of Turner’s life, through unhurried rhythms and scenes, makes Mr. Turner memorable. Read full review

Peter Travers

Dec 17, 2014

Leigh embraces the contradictions in Turner. And in tandem with cinematographer Dick Pope, a master of light, he shows us the world as Turner sees it. The effect is harsh and ravishing. Leigh’s beauty of a movie touches the heart not by sentimental gush but by the amplitude of its art.Read full review

Rex Reed

Dec 17, 2014

Mr. Spall, winner of the Cannes and New York Film Critics Circle best-actor awards, does his best to bring an unpleasant character to life — grunting and snorting like a boar ready to charge, spitting on his canvases and dragging around with a constant wince like a fat baby with colic. With all due respect, he’s too repulsive to watch for 150 minutes. Read full review

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riaan_radiohead

Jan 8, 2015

Mr. Turner could be Mike Leigh’s (71) most accomplished work in a remarkable career where every film from Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake to Another Year have been staggering humanist masterpieces.
Visually Mr Turner is Leigh’s most gorgeous film, filling the screen with scenic beauty and human… Expand

TheDavo

Feb 8, 2015

Surely has to be one of the best films of the year with one of the best film performances of the year as well. Not a movie for someone who needs a Hollywood movie with a nonsensical story and name stars. The acting, the story, the cinematography, the sets and the settings are to die for.… Expand

EpicLadySponge

Feb 25, 2016

I’ll cut right to the chase. Mr. Turner is outrageously and righteously fun to watch… making the other Turners look completely underrated. Don’t trust the users here. They look so incredibly weak when reviewing this movie.

TVJerry

Mar 19, 2015

Although this biopic is about British painter J.M.W. Turner, it’s more about his peculiar personality and unconventional life than his art. He spends lots of time observing nature and painting it, but he also visits important patrons, storms thru the Royal Academy and has time to sexually… Expand

pepeu

May 24, 2015

Mike Leigh have delivered some great movies during his career, and some not so great. I’m afraid this fall into the latter category. Sure, great acting, marvelous scenery and from what I have read, a big dose of authenticity. Timothy Spall is excellent in the leading part. So are many other… Expand

rahjuwow

Dec 28, 2014

A beautifully crafted,dismal, degrading and hugely disappointing descent into a narrow depiction of a small slice of Turner’s life. The film hardly relates to his painting process or what it meant and felt to him at all, in fact it gives the impression that his art was just something he did… Expand

financialwar

Apr 5, 2015

One of the worst “best” movie I ever watched, boring, long, weird English accent and fancy vocabularies that no one understands, even with subs I can hardly understand the movie.

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