Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
The movie's willingness to veer crazily off-course feels less objectionable than the monotony and sense of self-parody that kick in long before the whimper of a finish.

Name : James Rocchi / Alias : TheWrap
In 1984's "The Terminator," machines came back from the future to wipe out humanity; with "Terminator Genisys," a whole franchise comes back from the past to water down summer moviegoing.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The film just lumbers along, often tediously; there's no sense that the scenario has been carefully kneaded, structured and shaped by attentive dramatists. Visually, we've seen these images, or many like them, so many times before .

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

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

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

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 : 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.