The Edge of Love
Capitol Films | Release Date: March 13, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
39
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
10
Negative:
3
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60
EmpireOlly Richards
The cast is strong and the first act has an intriguingly dreamy quality, but it gives way to a soggy ending. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett
The film belongs to the women, with Knightley going from strength to strength (and showing she can sing!) and Miller again proving that she has everything it takes to be a major movie star. Read full review
50
VarietyLeslie Felperin
While the period drama has several redeeming features, tonally it's all over the map, veering between artsy stylization and hum-drum, sometimes almost twee melodrama. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
The Edge Of Love is more like a museum piece, placing historical figures in frozen positions, and asking us to judge them as the curators do. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
That none of the protagonists earns the audience's sympathy is more likely a failure of the real-life characters rather than the actors, who deliver fine performances -- especially Rhys, who seems to be channeling Richard Burton channeling Dylan Thomas at his most manipulatively loutish. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Holds a lot of promise in its first hour and never completely falls apart, but it's ultimately not the movie it might have been. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
The best thing The Edge of Love could do for you is to send you back to Thomas's poetry. Dash this folderol. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Sometimes glossy, sometimes hard-edged, the film alternates between glitz and unpleasantness and ends as a kind of glum soap opera, too glam to be bleak and too bleak to be so glam. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The Edge of Love may be intended as a biopic of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, but it’s destined to be remembered as the movie that brought Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller into the same bathtub. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
The story here, plucked from Thomas's life and embellished, proves almost entirely devoid of interest. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
A stagy, arty, and uncompelling account of the Welsh writer and his menage-y relations. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
A "great poet" movie, the poet in this case being Dylan Thomas, and it's utter bollocks. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyMelissa Anderson
Director John Maybury showed a defter hand with the artist biopic in his 1998 Francis Bacon film, "Love Is the Devil." Here he repeatedly falls into the genre’s traps, creating an inert, claustrophobic movie. Read full review
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