The Sam Mendes film “Empire of Light” has a curiously grandiose ... are offering robustly entertaining paeans to the glories of cinema, Mr. Mendes’s film along the same lines comes across ...

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.

Olivia Colman plays the manager of a movie theater in Sam Mendes’ new film " Empire of Light.” It’s a cinema palace in a small town on England’s south coast that is showing its age.

While the world was in lockdown these past couple years, Mendes let his imagination run to his happy place: a grand old English movie palace he dubbed the Empire Cinema. Thousands pass through its ...

In a British seaside town during the early 1980s, Hilary (Olivia Colman) works at the fading Empire cinema. When new employee Stephen (Micheal Ward) joins the team, the pair forge a romance ...

In “Empire of Light,” Sam Mendes casts a nostalgic eye toward the movies. Like several other auteurs this winter season, Mendes has crafted what could be considered a “love letter to cinema ...

Its portrait of British society in that era is a little more problematic, but the cinema period piece is sound. Hilary (Olivia Colman) works at the Empire theater in 1980 coastal England.

The superficiality ranges from the routine psychological rationale for the manic depressiveness of Colman’s Hilary Small, the Empire’s duty manager ... Hilary supervises with brittle cheer the ...

This review originally ran ... and end-to-end choreographed film. “Empire of Light” starts with an admiration towards the enchanted majesty of cinemas, as Hilary (an affecting Olivia Colman ...

Olivia Colman plays the manager of a movie theater in Sam Mendes’ new film “Empire of Light.” It’s a cinema palace in a small town on England’s south coast that is showing its age.

Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light is a dull movie about nothing in particular, despite its central romance (which becomes quickly scattered), its musings about the power of cinema (which crop up and ...