Summoning performances that saturate the screen, and dialogue that does just as much, Set Fire to the Stars proves to be as ambiguously affecting as its tortured source.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2019

This melancholic picture, filmed in South Wales, should make a fine addition to contemporary reflections on the famously roguish poet.

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

Shot in jazzy black and white by cinematographer Chris Seager, and thundering with taste and tempo, Andy Goddard's film just sings.

| Jun 6, 2016

Set Fire belongs to a genre that might be called Close Encounters With Greatness. They're not biopics, but glancing views by nobodies in a position to observe the backstage workings of genius. It's a formula, and Set Fire never gets beyond that formula.

| Nov 12, 2015

Although the screenplay lacks insight into his creative process, the film playfully dissects stuffy postwar academic ostentation.

| Jul 10, 2015

Gorgeous, evocative and well performed ...

| Jun 18, 2015

Set Fire to the Stars may be thematically uneven, but the aforementioned performances and Chris Seager's cinematography more than make up for it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 14, 2015

The film wallows too much in its subject's glumness, but it comes alive whenever 온라인카지노추천 actor and co-writer Celyn Jones, whose only previous film credit is 2005's Lassie, plays Thomas as a big shaggy dog.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 13, 2015

As tedious as "Set Fire to the Stars" gets, it remains watchable courtesy of the stunning black and white cinematography by Chris Seager.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 12, 2015

"Set Fire to the Stars" barely skims the surface of characters you wish had been given more dimension, but as a snapshot of postwar academia and its pretensions, it exerts a creepy fascination.

| Jun 11, 2015

Stylistically assured and tastefully appointed.

| Jun 11, 2015

[A] watchable but thematically repetitive drama about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' arrival in America in 1950.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 11, 2015

Story of the love/hate relationship between the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his tour-agent during his first visit to America.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2015

To me, the Great Men Who Wrote Epic Poetry But Were Otherwise Intolerable trope leaves much to be desired.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 11, 2015

It's a terrifically rounded portrait that captures both Thomas's depressive neuroses and his zest for life.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 11, 2015

It's left with little to do except point out that difficult artists can be hard on the people around them and to showcase some good poetry being read poorly.

| Original Score: D+ | Jun 11, 2015

A harrowing but tedious chronicle of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' time in America in the 1950s.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 10, 2015

It's almost as if everyone involved in Set Fire To The Stars got a little too understated for their own good.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 10, 2015

From the get-go, Set Fire feels movieland-hokey, and more dumb than the people in it ...

| Jun 10, 2015

A steady, austere treatment of a notoriously and riotously rambunctious subject, Set Fire to the Stars takes a non-incendiary, safe-hands approach to potentially combustible material.

| Jun 8, 2015