Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
It's hard for comic actors used to pulling faces just to be on screen, but Tina Fey does a good job. I… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster. — David Edelstein Copy Share
There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short that she… — David Edelstein Copy Share
If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's… — David Edelstein Copy Share
Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after another. But… — David Edelstein Copy Share
My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors,… — David Edelstein Copy Share
You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given… — David Edelstein Copy Share
Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered. — David Edelstein Copy Share
Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through. — David Edelstein Copy Share
Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first made a… — David Edelstein Copy Share
It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of… — David Edelstein Copy Share
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners. — David Edelstein Copy Share
Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the… — David Edelstein Copy Share
Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting characters into… — David Edelstein Copy Share
King Arthur is profoundly stupid and inept.. then there's Clive Owen, rising above it all. Aloof yet watchful, the actor cultivates an inner stillness… — David Edelstein Copy Share
My reaction to 'Sin City' is easily stated. I loved it. Or, to put it another way, I loved it, I loved it, I… — David Edelstein Copy Share
