The cast is strong and the first act has an intriguingly dreamy quality, but it gives way to a soggy ending.
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06/20/08
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:20-06-2008
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
Reviews for The Edge of Love
Top CriticIt is an exasperatingly unfocused and underpowered movie that, like Churchill's famous themeless pudding, is unsure what it is supposed to be about.
10/18/08
Top CriticAbove all else though, it whets the appetite for another look at Dylan Thomas and his wife, a prospect which previously seemed dauntingly difficult for a film-maker to tackle.
10/18/08
As a look at two women who find an unusual connection, it's rather beautiful.
06/19/08
Impressively directed, superbly written drama with career-best performances from both Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller.
07/18/08
It felt like a lighting class, not a movie.
03/16/09
I thought it looked incredible.
03/16/09
Like a museum piece, placing historical figures in frozen positions, and asking us to judge them as the curators do.
03/19/09
This may be Knightley's first truly mature performance. Too bad it arrives wrapped in doggerel.
04/02/09
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04/23/09
A period romance, charged with provocative undercurrents about art, war and the eternal battle of the sexes.
03/20/09
Edge doesn't aspire to be anything more than a juicy British wartime soap opera, but when it finds delicious pockets of whispered betrayal, artistic impotency, and cherry-lipped invitation, it adds up to a convincing sit.
03/12/09
Notably only for a first act that credibly depicts a four-way relationship among friends and lovers without tilting embarrassingly toward titillation and/or soap opera.
03/19/09
Ah, the London Blitz. Bombs falling, buildings on fire, people dying all around. Good times, good times.
05/08/09
The best thing The Edge of Love could do for you is to send you back to Thomas's poetry. Dash this folderol. Open Under Milk Wood.
03/16/09
No one seems to know what the movie is about; is it about the friendship, Thomas's life and women, or the war?
03/13/09
Striking performances from Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller fail to compensate for the film's lack of narrative clarity.
03/11/09
Dylan Thomas's life is represented here, but John Maybury's hollow romantic drama is more interested in his women than in his literary art.
08/29/08
When it's over...we have to wonder why any of it mattered in the first place.
07/23/09
Unfortunately, like the murky visuals, the story is also muddled.
04/22/09
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