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By Thom Ernst (141) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 07 Dec 2022

It’s possible to leave the theatre unaffected only to look back at Empire of Light with affection…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 07 Dec 2022

Empire of Light offers an appetizer of nostalgia for those who remember theaters during the early 1980s but the main course isn’t the easiest…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 07 Dec 2022

Empire of Light may be a love letter to the movies, but it’s a sad one in which one of the parties, the local, independent movie theater,…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 07 Dec 2022

Colman is brilliant, Ward brings a lovely wounded nobility to Stephen and the warm and cuddly Jones is set up to sum it all up…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 07 Dec 2022

From the projectionist played by Toby Jones who regularly pops up to vocalize what everyone onscreen and the audience is already well aware…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 06 Dec 2022

By the time we get to the last 20 minutes, Empire of Light is so scattered, so without impact or focus, that every scene could be the last…

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By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for IGN (1,013) on 18 Nov 2022

Sam Mendes assembles a creative dream-team for Empire of Light, but ends up with one of the most soulless prestige pictures in years…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 30 Sep 2022

Whatever Mendes’s connection to the material, he’s made something humane and nourishing, a picture of rare thoughtfulness and decency…

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By C.j. Prince (29) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 22 Sep 2022

Empire of Light would like to remind us of the power of movies when it does a far stronger job recalling better ones…

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By Ross Bonaime (185) for Collider (1,032) on 14 Sep 2022

Empire of Light ultimately becomes a confusing mixture of ideas that never congeal into one solid narrative…

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By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Sep 2022

In Sam Mendes’s film, the power of the movies comes off feeling disappointingly like an afterthought to the script’s more romantic and…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 13 Sep 2022

Empire Of Light is a sentimental film – the piano-heavy score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross advertises that from the opening bars –…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 13 Sep 2022

The film has a sheepish, hair-shirt quality, as if it wants credit for intersectional largesse…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 12 Sep 2022

Empire of Light is a sweet, heartfelt, humane movie, which doesn’t shy away from the brutality and the racism that was happening in the streets…

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By Neil Smith (699) for Total Film (3,532) on 12 Sep 2022

As terrific as Colman is, however, the film around her has a schematic and engineered quality not too dissimilar from Jones’ prized projectors…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 05 Sep 2022

Colman, her eyes darting between hope and devastation, is so lit-up and specific (and funny, a quality that doesn't seem to get mentioned enough)…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 04 Sep 2022

In the era when content is king, Sam Mendes still believes in moving pictures. Empire of Light is the proof…

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By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 04 Sep 2022

Despite Deakins and Mendes’ shorthand in framing gorgeous images, there are moments, especially in the second act, where the film could simply…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 04 Sep 2022

Nothing in the film has a fraction of the dramatic impact of the emotional roller-coaster Colman’s performance embodies…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for TheWrap (3,203) on 04 Sep 2022

Empire of Light feels more like a sweet experiment on nostalgia and memory than an articulate film with something to say…

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