Spall said of art critic John Ruskin: "I think Turner really liked the fact that he put him up there, but really felt he should've minded his own business" By Ashley Lee Four-time Cannes competition ...

Critic Bob Mondello says Mike Leigh's earthy new biopic about the famed British painter J.M.W Turner shows viewers the incandescent beauty of the... 'Mr. Turner' Is A Snuffling, Growling Work Of Art ...

Timothy Spall doesn't have the face of your traditional leading man. Rather, he owns a decidedly asymmetrical, Laughton-esque countenance -- the kind you might see running a Dickensian orphanage or, ...

British painter J. M. W. Turner was a complex character. One art critic described him as an artist who could most "stirringly and truthfully measure the moods of Nature." In his new film, Mr. Turner, ...

Timothy Spall portrays British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner in Mike Leigh's buzzy biopic By Ashley Lee Four-time Cannes competition veteran (and 1996 Palme d’Or winner for Secrets & Lies), Leigh ...

Within a career that’s now in its fifth decade, Mr. Turner is only the third period film Mike Leigh has made, but, ironically, it’s the first he’s shot digitally. The picture captures the last 25 ...