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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe result is wintry and melancholy, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” or “Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night” in tone. And because of that, it’s a trifle duller than the man himself surely must have been.
- 63Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenAt least it doesn't make the biopic mistake of attempting to check off every moment of a man's life over the course of a few hours' worth of running time.
- 50The DissolveJen ChaneyThe DissolveJen ChaneyVisually striking, meticulously rendered, a tiny bit pretentious, and emotionally inscrutable.
- 50New York PostSara StewartNew York PostSara StewartAndy Goddard’s feature debut is shot stylishly in black and white, but deals in themes that feel equally retro.
- It’s a nice enough, pleasant enough film with a couple solid performances. But when you’re making a movie about a man as unique, profound, and complex as Dylan Thomas, and you have nothing to say about him, you don’t have much of a movie.
- 50The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenSet 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.
- 40Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlAn energetic, well-acted, handsomely mounted b&w literary tell-all whose script would be laughed out of the room by its famous subjects.
- 40New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierHigh art swings sort of low in this watchable but thematically repetitive drama.
- 33The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyAn exercise in tasteful pointlessness, shot in flat black and white and scored (by Gruff Rhys, of all people) with tinkling piano and sawing strings that evoke nothing so much as an aura of cut-rate class.