Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Its appreciation of Thomas' work remains superficial, while the polished filmmaking never quite finds its own poetry.

Name : Trevor Johnston / Alias : Time Out
This ambitious low-budget Welsh drama never quite finds a way to make its emotional drama matter much to the audience.

Name : Joe McGovern / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
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.

Name : Gary Goldstein / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Gorgeous, evocative and well performed .

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
[A] watchable but thematically repetitive drama about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' arrival in America in 1950.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
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.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
To me, the Great Men Who Wrote Epic Poetry But Were Otherwise Intolerable trope leaves much to be desired.

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
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.

Name : Stephen Holden / Alias : New York Times
"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.

Name : Neil Young / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
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.

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : NPR
Stylistically assured and tastefully appointed.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
From the get-go, Set Fire feels movieland-hokey, and more dumb than the people in it .

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
A harrowing but tedious chronicle of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' time in America in the 1950s.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
To me, the Great Men Who Wrote Epic Poetry But Were Otherwise Intolerable trope leaves much to be desired.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
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.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
From the get-go, Set Fire feels movieland-hokey, and more dumb than the people in it .

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
A harrowing but tedious chronicle of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' time in America in the 1950s.

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
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.

Name : Stephen Holden / Alias : New York Times
"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.

Name : Joe McGovern / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
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.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
[A] watchable but thematically repetitive drama about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' arrival in America in 1950.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Its appreciation of Thomas' work remains superficial, while the polished filmmaking never quite finds its own poetry.

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : NPR
Stylistically assured and tastefully appointed.

Name : Trevor Johnston / Alias : Time Out
This ambitious low-budget Welsh drama never quite finds a way to make its emotional drama matter much to the audience.

Name : Gary Goldstein / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Gorgeous, evocative and well performed .

Name : Neil Young / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
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.

Name : Gary Goldstein / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Gorgeous, evocative and well performed .

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
A harrowing but tedious chronicle of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' time in America in the 1950s.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
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.

Name : Stephen Holden / Alias : New York Times
"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.

Name : Joe McGovern / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
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.

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
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.

Name : Trevor Johnston / Alias : Time Out
This ambitious low-budget Welsh drama never quite finds a way to make its emotional drama matter much to the audience.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
To me, the Great Men Who Wrote Epic Poetry But Were Otherwise Intolerable trope leaves much to be desired.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Its appreciation of Thomas' work remains superficial, while the polished filmmaking never quite finds its own poetry.

Name : Neil Young / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
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.

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : NPR
Stylistically assured and tastefully appointed.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
[A] watchable but thematically repetitive drama about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' arrival in America in 1950.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
From the get-go, Set Fire feels movieland-hokey, and more dumb than the people in it .