Empire of Light's reviews
Media reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Colman, her eyes darting between hope and devastation, is so lit-up and specific (and funny, a quality that doesn't seem to get mentioned enough) that she lifts nearly every scene.
The Hollywood Reporter
Nothing in the film has a fraction of the dramatic impact of the emotional roller-coaster Colman\'s performance embodies.
Collider
Empire of Light ultimately becomes a confusing mixture of ideas that never congeal into one solid narrative. Yet Mendes\' film does have the tiniest slivers of magic poking through the seams, proving his thesis about the beauty of film, even when he\'s too distracted to focus on that idea himself. Read full review
The Wrap
Empire of Light feels more like a sweet experiment on nostalgia and memory than an articulate film with something to say.
Indiewire
It\'s wonderful that Mendes spent the pandemic making a movie about the irreplaceable vitality of movie theaters ? even going so far as to paint them as one of the final strings in what\'s left of our social fabric. It would have been even better if he spent the pandemic making a movie worth seeing in one.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote