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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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...

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Oct 7, 2021

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

Full Review | Jun 18, 2020

[O]verlong and contextually lacking.

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

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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

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

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

Full Review | Mar 7, 2019

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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

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

It is both off-putting and amusingly fascinating to watch the portrayal of the past 20 years or so of Turner's life, as a man who changed the perception of landscape artistry.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 18, 2015