Survey countless films about artistic geniuses and you will not encounter one quite like Mike Leigh's J.M.W. Turner, as played by Timothy Spall. Grunting is practically his choice mode of expression.

If you’ve ever loved a terrible person, Mike Leigh’s quietly sensational Mr. Turner — a biopic, of sorts, covering the last 25 years of the life of the great 19th-century British painter J.M.W. Turner ...

British director Mike Leigh turned an old Hollywood adage on its ear with his bravura biopic of early Victorian painter J.M. W. Turner. They say mediocre books can make for great movies, but great ...