Spall's Turner grunts his way through whole conversations before bursting into sprawling surges of grandiloquence and wit. He is equally entertaining in both modes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Mr. Turner results in an experience that it's at times fascinating and almost always enjoyable. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 26, 2023

Mr. Turner is vivid in all senses, a masterful portrait of an iconic artist that is firmly in the frame this Awards season.

| Oct 7, 2021

Mr. Turner is genius. In every way, the performances, the incredible true story and the superb art direction-and regular direction-create a stunning, unsentimental phenomenon...

| Oct 7, 2021

Mike Leigh's exquisitely crafted and profoundly affecting Mr. Turner is one of the best films of 2014. Timothy Spall's performance is brilliant.

| Oct 7, 2021

Turner emerges as a complex and memorably tragic figure building on contemporary notions of artists as wastrels and failed adults.

| Jun 18, 2020

[O]verlong and contextually lacking.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 20, 2019

It's an extraordinary film that brings to life an extraordinary artist, warts and all.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 4, 2019

Mr. Turner is a work that sees Leigh finding the ideal balance between the intimate and the epic.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 3, 2019

I've not in years seen an onscreen character that feels as fully-realized as Turner, and Spall's seamless performance combined with the immaculate set and costume design and stunning photography makes for a film that feels like a time machine.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 20, 2019

What a fine film it is: rich, enjoyable, imaginative, faithful to Turner's spirit.

| Mar 7, 2019

... it's the British director's best film in years.

| Dec 14, 2018

It is such an extraordinary revelation, a breathtaking and acutely observed meditation on the intricacies of Victorian life, complete with a tour de force by Timothy Spall as the painter JMW Turner.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 19, 2018

All in all, the 
150-minute Mr. Turner is an impressive accomplishment, laudable for the way it uses the figure of a single artist to explore both art and cinema.

| Jan 12, 2018

Apart from the fantastic characterizations and top-notch cinematography, the real beauty of Turner's vision was his ability to find beauty in the seemingly ordinary.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 9, 2017

The resulting portrait, with all its mystery and theater, is utterly fascinating and emotionally expansive, as only Mike Leigh films are.

| Aug 22, 2017

To call Mr. Turner one of the year's most overrated films seems unfair, as it's worth watching for beautiful cinematography and a plethora of gentle laughs.

| May 11, 2017

Leigh's camera searches this world through slow and ponderous movements, every gesture by an actor as carefully calculated as the forceful actions Turner throws onto his canvases.

| Original Score: B | Jun 6, 2016

J.M.W. Turner might well be the role Spall is forever linked to, like Sir Ben Kingsley and Gandhi. It is a virtuoso performance, but it is also great fun.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 22, 2016

It is by turns funny, tragic and savage, but the strongest sense both leave us with is one of wistful mourning. It's not easy being an artist.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 26, 2016