That none of the protagonists earns the audience's sympathy is more likely a failure of the real-life characters rather than the actors, who deliver fine performances -- especially Rhys, who seems to be channeling Richard Burton channeling Dylan Thomas at his most manipulatively loutish.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
The story here, plucked from Thomas's life and embellished, proves almost entirely devoid of interest.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Sometimes glossy, sometimes hard-edged, the film alternates between glitz and unpleasantness and ends as a kind of glum soap opera, too glam to be bleak and too bleak to be so glam.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
A "great poet" movie, the poet in this case being Dylan Thomas, and it's utter bollocks.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
A stagy, arty, and uncompelling account of the Welsh writer and his menage-y relations.Read Full Review »
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