This modest movie is Jane Eyre on a shoestring, but the Brontës meet East Lynne without igniting a spark or pricking a tear. It's an insufferably dull affair.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2023

It is a British film, of course: who else but an Englishman would want to imprison Marceau in this way, and create a story in which all the main characters look peeved and stunted?... The artifice of the confection is too much to take.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2023

A movie that ponderously patch-quilts bits of other films and texts, and even then does not have enough material to fill 107 minutes, let alone a screen wide enough for Lawrence of Arabia.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2023

Though sometimes predictable, Nicholson's film is sustained by the quality of his writing, especially the musings about the magical powers of firelight, by the almost surreal lake house scenes and by the scoring of Christopher Gunning.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2018

I wish someone would explain to me why all these 19th Century costume dramas need to be so cheerless, so formal, and so godawful boring.

Full Review | May 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 14, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 72/100 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 1, 2000

What Firelight most tellingly lacks are riveting star performances to inevitably reel us in to its romantic absurdity.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000