Mr. Turner - Kritiken

...the director’s most visually ravishing movie. With cinematographer Dick Pope behind the lens, every shot is gorgeous enough to hang in a museum...

...it's slow and grim and deliberately hard to love, yet it's fascinating, and the performances and photography are outstanding.

...richly and intensely enjoyable study of the great artist’s final years.

...a study of the closing 25 years of the famed 19th-century painter’s life at once epic in scope and intimate in detail, a film wonderfully, bewilderingly, and heart-stirringly alive.

Bister blick på skönheten. Mike Leigh gör komplext porträtt av ­älskad landskapsmålare.

...Leigh and cinematographer Dick Pope paint a tactile landscape in which “the sun is God” and steamy science is the future.

Timothy Spall grunts his way to glory in Mike Leigh’s elegantly composed portrait of JMW Turner.

Spall’s performance is in a league of its own as the actor inhabits the body of this artist.

...a supremely enjoyable biopic of the English artist known as “the painter of light”...

Det er et bemærkelsesværdigt portræt som støttes fornemt af Leighs eget manuskript, der med veldoseret humor på tværs af to en halv time fører os tættere og tættere på titelpersonen.

Med sine gudesmukke tableauer bruger Mike Leigh lyset i det engelske landskab med samme kraft og finfølelse som maleren selv.

Hans Turner er en kunstner i hel figur – støt malende med en slags rolig, men indædt fanatisme, med det daglige arbejde som støttepillen i en tilværelse fuld af skyggesider og ikke mindst fortrængninger.