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
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Above 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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
It is an exasperatingly unfocused and underpowered movie that, like Churchill's famous themeless pudding, is unsure what it is supposed to be about. Full Review |
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 4/5 |
Impressively directed, superbly written drama with career-best performances from both Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The cast is strong and the first act has an intriguingly dreamy quality, but it gives way to a soggy ending. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
As a look at two women who find an unusual connection, it's rather beautiful. Full Review |
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5/10 |
When it's over...we have to wonder why any of it mattered in the first place. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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] Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
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2/4 |
Ah, the London Blitz. Bombs falling, buildings on fire, people dying all around. Good times, good times. Full Review |
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C+ |
Unfortunately, like the murky visuals, the story is also muddled. Full Review |
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C- |
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. Full Review |
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5/10 |
While all the pieces are there for an intriguing film, John Maybury's The Edge of Love never really becomes anything. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
This may be Knightley's first truly mature performance. Too bad it arrives wrapped in doggerel. Full Review |
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7/10 |
Though very uneven in style and focus . . . the fraught complications among the foursome raise universal issues of freewheeling young love and friendship during wartime. Full Review |
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C- |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A period romance, charged with provocative undercurrents about art, war and the eternal battle of the sexes. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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