Set Fire to the Stars

Name: Set Fire to the Stars
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: June 12, 2015
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 49
Cast: Celyn Jones, Elijah Wood, Kelly Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Steven Mackintosh

2015

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: June 12, 2015 | Not Rated

Starring: Celyn Jones, Elijah Wood, Kelly Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Steven Mackintosh

Summary: Based on true events, John Malcolm Brinnin (Elijah Wood), an aspiring poet in 1950s New York, has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell-raising hero, Dylan Thomas (Celyn Jones).

Director: Andy Goddard

Genre(s): Biography, Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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Gary Goldstein

Jun 18, 2015

Gorgeous, evocative and well performed. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jun 10, 2015

The 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. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Jun 7, 2015

At 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. Read full review

Rex Reed

Jun 10, 2015

A harrowing but tedious chronicle of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’ time in America in the 1950s. Read full review

The Playlist Ken Guidry

Jun 11, 2015

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. Read full review

Sara Stewart

Jun 11, 2015

Andy Goddard’s feature debut is shot stylishly in black and white, but deals in themes that feel equally retro. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Jun 10, 2015

An 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. Read full review

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