Mr. Turner (2014)
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Critic Consensus: Led by a masterful performance from Timothy Spall and brilliantly directed by Mike Leigh, Mr. Turner is a superior Hollywood biopic.
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Cast
as J.M.W. Turner
as William Turner
as Hannah Danby
as Sophia Booth
as Mary Somerville
as Benjamin Robert Haydon
as John Ruskin
as Sarah Danby
as Evelina
as Mr. Booth
as Georgiana
as George Jones
as John Carew
as Sir William Beechey
as CR Leslie
as Dr. Price
as David Roberts
as Clarkson Stanfield
as Sir Martin Archer Shee
as Sir Charles Eastlake
as Sir Augustus Wall Callcott
as Thomas Stothard
as Henry William Pickersgill
as John Constable
as Miss Coggins
as Second Young Lady
as Clarinettist
as Footman
as Ruskin's Mother
as Ruskin's Father
as Lady Eastlake
as Dinner Guest
as Prince Albert
as Colourman
as Mariner
as Queen Victoria
as Gentleman Critic
as Gentleman Critic
as Lady Critic
as Lady Critic
as Gallery Visitor
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Critic Reviews for Mr. Turner
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Mike Leigh's biopic is so richly detailed that it feels like a documentary. Spall goes for broke in the outsize title role.
At 150 minutes, it's a little too long but there are stretches during its course when it captivates and amazes.
You leave "Mr. Turner," as with all good fact-based films, wanting to know more about this man and his work - and remembering that beautiful, almost touchable light, on the canvas and on the screen.
For modern moviegoers, the earthy "Mr. Turner" may seem like slowly steeped tea with an unpleasant aftertaste. But while some are impatiently waiting for the paint to dry, astute viewers will see a cinematic landscape bloom.
If the past is a foreign country, then "Mr. Turner" is one of the most rhapsodic foreign films you may ever see.
Mr. Turner is no barrel of laughs. It's a barrel of life - an extraordinary one.
Audience Reviews for Mr. Turner
Timothy Spall extraordinarily gives impressionistic life to one of Britain's best impressionistic painters. With only a few strokes one is given the idea of a soul (of whom, really, we all can only guess) who happened to create paintings that communicate how indescribable any given moment in life itself really is. Mike Leigh has taken this as a labor of love and the work is often punctuated with landscapes as evocative as those of Mr.Turner's creation. We are seldom far from his work. As well, all the women in his life are remarkably portrayed, with a depth greater than the artist and acheived with fewer lines.
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An excruciating slog that seems made only to mock those who see art in something made by a monkey throwing feces at a blank canvas, since J. M. W. Turner is portrayed as a repulsive, vulgar and contemptible hog and played by Spall as a ridiculous growling caricature.
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Beautiful looking deadly bore.
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Mr. Turner Quotes
| J.M.W. Turner: | Mr Ruskin, can I pose you a somewhat conundrous question? |
| J.M.W. Turner: | Mr. Ruskin, can I pose you a somewhat conundrous question? |
| John Ruskin: | Ah, please do, Mr Turner. |
| John Ruskin: | Ah, please do, Mr. Turner. |
| J.M.W. Turner: | To which do you find yourself more partial, a steak and kidney pie or a veal and ham pie? |
| John Ruskin: | I must confess, Mr Turner, that I find myself quite unable to answer your question with the precision that I would wish. |
| John Ruskin: | I must confess, Mr. Turner, that I find myself quite unable to answer your question with the precision that I would wish. |
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