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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 : 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 .

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Mala Mala depicts its subjects with an uncommon degree of empathy and understanding, not to mention glamor.

Name : Diana Clarke / Alias : Village Voice
This film does not pander. Rather, it demands that the viewer rise to the occasion.

Name : Ronnie Scheib / Alias : Variety
Beginning as a colorful documentary about the Puerto Rican transgender community. Mala Mala slowly morphs into a celebration of solidarity and collective activism without ever losing sight of its likable protagonists.

Name : Adam Nayman / Alias : AV Club
The outcome of this campaign gives the film a heroic arc, and yet amid all the images of celebration and joyful physical abandon the most lingering images are the ones depicting daily routines.

Name : Daniel M. Gold / Alias : New York Times
While affirming the dignity of its subjects, "Mala Mala" shows there's little glamour attached to the pursuit of selfhood.