Release Date
December 16, 2022
Digital Date
February 7, 2023
DVD Release Date
February 21, 2023 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Sam Mendes
Writer
Sam Mendes
Cast
Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Tom Brooke, Tanya Moodie, Hannah Onslow, Crystal Clarke, Toby Jones, Colin Firth
Studio
Running Time
119 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for sexual content, language and brief violence
Set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s, EMPIRE OF LIGHT is a powerful and poignant story about human connection and the magic of cinema, from Academy Award®-winning director Sam Mendes.
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The greatest cinema sin is to create something that evokes no reaction. There are bad movies that will imprint their awfulness into your mind, great movies that stand above the rest, and even mediocre movies that have the power to thrive in memorable mediocrity. And then there’s Empire of Light, an utter misfire of a drama that isn’t so bad as it is nothingness wrapped in a shiny bow.
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