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Synopsis

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid-19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

Cast

  • Mel Gibson
  • Sean Penn
  • Natalie Dormer
  • Jennifer Ehle
  • Jeremy Irvine
  • Ioan Gruffudd
  • Adam Fergus
  • Aidan McArdle
  • Kieran O'Reilly
  • Bryan Murray

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Metacritic

50
Dec 31, 2020

As “unfilmmable” as a movie about men lost in words, attempting to write a dictionary might seem, there is a better picture in this subject, based on journalist/history buff Simon Winchester’s best selling book. Limiting its scope, beefing up the connection between the “consanguineous” correspondents, their letters and their meetings, giving the two men competing agendas (acceptance by academia vs “redemption”) rather than shoehorning both of them into one and losing the “love story” would have been a start.

Metacritic review by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
20
May 27, 2019

The film’s only real draws are Gibson and Penn, who come at the material from opposite ends of the acting philosophy spectrum...It's simply confounding, much like the rest of the movie.

Metacritic review by Elizabeth Kerr
Elizabeth Kerr
The Hollywood Reporter
30
Apr 12, 2019

For those that have been anticipating this curious, much-delayed oddity, the good news is that Gibson is fine; it’s everything else that doesn’t work.

Metacritic review by Jay Weissberg
Jay Weissberg
Variety