Empire of Light on HBO gives Olivia Coleman another chance to shine. With the great director Sam Mendes and top of the heap cinematographer Roger Deakins, you wonder what could go wrong with a film about a British movie theater in the 1980s–well almost everything doesn’t work–uneven, lacking any emotional pull, and a banal script. Yet there is Olivia wringing all the truth she can from her part as a mentally challenged single woman starved for love

EMPIRE OF LIGHT | Official Trailer | Searchlight Pictures – YouTube.