Co-writer/director George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing skews towards the more mature side of that spectrum, and it’s an exciting grown-up fairytale brought to life with the ...

Starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, Three Thousand Years of Longing is meant to be a rapturous romance all tied up with a luscious ribbon of fantasy and magic. But in the end, it proves a ...

Three Thousand Years is largely an omnibus of the tales that Djinn, as the genie is called, tells about himself, at Alithea’s insistence — she being a student of such tales, after all.

Three Thousand Years of Longing finds the scholar encountering a Djinn (Elba), who now relies on her to ask for three wishes to free him from a long imprisonment. Doubt and suspicion cloud Alithea ...

The critic says Three Thousand Years of Longing highlights the power of storytelling, but it’s Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba who hold the movie together: Swinton takes a character who could have ...

“Three Thousand Years of Longing,” which opens in theaters Friday, may be the year’s most improbable movie. It’s mostly set in modern-day Istanbul and London, yet the story’s basic ...

That may explain why I felt both mildly charmed and a little worn out by the new movie Three Thousand Years of Longing. Tilda Swinton plays Alithea Binney, a modern-day literary scholar who ...

Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton in director George Miller’s film "Three Thousand Years of Longing." (Courtesy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc) Dr. Alithea Binnie is a narratologist, which sounds ...

Of course you would! You’re human, aren’t you? Well, good news, because Three Thousand Years of Longing, which opens in theaters this week, has all of that and more. Directed by George Miller ...

For her, storytelling is life. The stakes are far lower for Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) in George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing.” A self-described narratologist, Alithea has ...

Idris Elba stars as The Djinn and Tilda Swinton as Alithea Binnie in THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING. Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures Inc. © 2022 Metro ...

Tilda Swinton plays a literary scholar and Idris Elba is the Djinn she conjures in Three Thousand Years of Longing. I've always felt there's something a bit too self-conscious about movies that ...