A portrait of a mixed-race, May/December (maybe more like May/September) romance, “Empire of Light” is a bit of a lovely muddle from writer-director Sam Mendes (“1917”). Set in 1981, the film is set ...

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As festival flicks finally make their way to big screens, romance drama “Empire of Light” is a must-see this holiday season. Hailing from Oscar-winning “American Beauty” and “Skyfall” director Sam ...

Olivia Colman and breakout Micheal Ward star in a stilted May-December romance that struggles to capture the magic of cinema. Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2022 Telluride ...

So could an underlying theme connect several film releases over the past year? Quite possibly, as this new work arrives right between two works that embrace the nostalgia of cinema itself. A few weeks ...

Hilary (Olivia Colman) is a cinema manager working in an aging movie theater in an English coastal town during the early 1980s. She’s soft-spoken and appears to have a good head on her shoulders to ...

Olivia Colman brings life to "Empire of Light." But is that enough? Credit: Searchlight Pictures Blues Brothers is playing on Screen 7. The halogen lights illuminate the winsome, amber-smeared walls.

The gorgeous old, Art Deco movie house in Sam Mendes’ heartfelt drama Empire of Light (★★★☆☆) looks like the sort of cinema palace any number of moviegoers might relish escaping to for a few hours or ...

From its first moments, in which an employee played by Olivia Colman opens the grand, golden Empire cinema for the day, "Empire of Light" feels like a love letter to the experience of moviegoing.

We are in a cinema season when movies-about-movies are freely roaming the multiplexes and streaming zones, with such prime examples as the bacchanalian excess of Babylon’s early Hollywood epic and ...

Released in the U.S. on December 9, Empire of Light is offering movie fans a love story for this holiday season. The two main leads, played by Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward, have also attracted ...

As festival flicks finally make their way to big screens, romance drama “Empire of Light” is a must-see this holiday season. Hailing from Oscar-winning “American Beauty” and “Skyfall” director Sam ...