When it's over...we have to wonder why any of it mattered in the first place.
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07/23/09
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The Edge of Love (2009)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:18
Rotten:35
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Despite effective performances from Knightley and Miller, The Edge of Love lacks a coherent narrative.
Theatrical Release:2008
Synopsis: Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) is told through the lives... [More]
Starring: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys
Director: John Maybury
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Maybury tackles the great Dylan Thomas in The Edge of Love, a speculative investigation into a cloudy period of the poet and dramatist's personal life. [Blu-ray]
07/08/09
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05/14/09
Ah, the London Blitz. Bombs falling, buildings on fire, people dying all around. Good times, good times.
05/08/09
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04/23/09
Unfortunately, like the murky visuals, the story is also muddled.
04/22/09
A bit too arty and concerned with quasi-historical detail to catch fire as a romance (doomed or otherwise), and too yawningly familiar in its major chord plotting to set sail as a honest character ensemble.
04/19/09
While all the pieces are there for an intriguing film, John Maybury's The Edge of Love never really becomes anything.
04/17/09
The Edge of Love is literate and often lovely to look at, but unless you're requesting an off-key bohemian rhapsody, do not go gentle into that good theater.
04/16/09
The Edge of Love 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.
04/03/09
Top CriticThis may be Knightley's first truly mature performance. Too bad it arrives wrapped in doggerel.
04/02/09
Top CriticThough very uneven in style and focus . . . the fraught complications among the foursome raise universal issues of freewheeling young love and friendship during wartime.
03/22/09
The picture's combination of stylistic splash and pretentious turgidity makes for a long slog. It may be accurate, but by the time it drags to an end, you won't really care.
03/22/09
A period romance, charged with provocative undercurrents about art, war and the eternal battle of the sexes.
03/20/09
For all its vivid evocation of its characters' tomorrow-we-die bonhomie, the film finally never quite convinces viewers of its central subject: the sisterly, almost sapphic bond between Vera and Caitlin.
03/20/09
Top CriticThe movie makes for an engaging enough period piece.
03/20/09
Top CriticWhile Thomas fans will regret seeing their literary hero reduced to a generic drunk, even those awaiting the aforementioned bathtub scene will find it barely worth the effort.
03/20/09
Top CriticMore a Gary Springer sex brawl than a Blitzkrieg bohemian romp, with Dylan mainly playing incorrigibly horny and urinating on house plants. And a court duel from nowhere, with the entire free love posse nastily at each other's throats. Paging Nancy Grace.
03/20/09
Booze and jealousy make a toxic cocktail, one that’s heavily imbibed with much self-lacerating gusto in the grim British drama The Edge of Love.
03/20/09
Top CriticThe Edge of Love is the sort of muddled melodrama that has little to say about love, or anything else.
03/19/09
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