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Set Fire to the Stars
Directed by
Andy Goddard
Not Rated
2014
1h 37m
Drama
,
Biography
,
and more
5.8
57%
40%
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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.
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Cast of Set Fire to the Stars
Elijah Wood
John M. Brinnin
Celyn Jones
Dylan Thomas
Kelly Reilly
Caitlin
Steven Mackintosh
Jack
Shirley Henderson
Shirley
Kevin Eldon
Stanley
Andrew Bicknell
Adam Gillen
Nicola Duffett
Steve Speirs
Ken Drury
Maimie McCoy
Richard Brake
Polly Hemingway
Sue Maund
Weston Gavin
Kate Drew
Janet
Set Fire to the Stars Ratings & Reviews
New York Post
Sara Stewart
To me, the Great Men Who Wrote Epic Poetry But Were Otherwise Intolerable trope leaves much to be desired.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
[A] watchable but thematically repetitive drama about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' arrival in America in 1950.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
It's left with little to do except point out that difficult artists can be hard on the people around them and to showcase some good poetry being read poorly.
RogerEbert.com
Odie Henderson
As tedious as "Set Fire to the Stars" gets, it remains watchable courtesy of the stunning black and white cinematography by Chris Seager.
Entertainment Weekly
Joe McGovern
The film wallows too much in its subject's glumness, but it comes alive whenever TV actor and co-writer Celyn Jones, whose only previous film credit is 2005's Lassie, plays Thomas as a big shaggy dog.
Observer
Rex Reed
A harrowing but tedious chronicle of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' time in America in the 1950s.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
A haunting account of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' first tour of America in 1950, "Set Fire to the Stars" is at once curiously subdued and unnervingly unpredictable.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
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.
The Dissolve
Jen Chaney
It's almost as if everyone involved in Set Fire To The Stars got a little too understated for their own good.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
Gorgeous, evocative and well performed ...
New York Times
Stephen Holden
"Set Fire to the Stars" barely skims the surface of characters you wish had been given more dimension, but as a snapshot of postwar academia and its pretensions, it exerts a creepy fascination.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Stylistically assured and tastefully appointed.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
From the get-go, Set Fire feels movieland-hokey, and more dumb than the people in it ...
The Hollywood Reporter
Neil Young
A steady, austere treatment of a notoriously and riotously rambunctious subject, Set Fire to the Stars takes a non-incendiary, safe-hands approach to potentially combustible material.
The Young Folks
Nathanael Hood
Set Fire to the Stars may be thematically uneven, but the aforementioned performances and Chris Seager's cinematography more than make up for it.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Story of the love/hate relationship between the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his tour-agent during his first visit to America.
Movie Mezzanine
Andy Crump
It's a terrifically rounded portrait that captures both Thomas's depressive neuroses and his zest for life.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Its appreciation of Thomas' work remains superficial, while the polished filmmaking never quite finds its own poetry.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Its appeal probably won't reach outside of an art-house audience.
Seattle Weekly
Brian Miller
Set Fire belongs to a genre that might be called Close Encounters With Greatness. They're not biopics, but glancing views by nobodies in a position to observe the backstage workings of genius. It's a formula, and Set Fire never gets beyond that formula.
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