You can feel righteous fury in every frame of The Magdalene Sisters. The movie is both a masterpiece and a holy hell: Watching it, you feel you're being punished for a crime you didn't commit. Which puts you, come to… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 just so very bad. You can have a pretty good time snickering at it-unless, like me, you think there's something to this global warming thing, and you shudder at the irony of a movie meant to… — 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 in the end, it's shapeless and blandly apolitical, apart from its watered-down feminism. You see, Fey's Kim Baker - changed from Barker - transforms herself from a neophyte reporter, condescended to by male war correspondents, soldiers… — 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 Image
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 that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer.… — 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 Image
Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
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 fetish of authenticity, then served up a shamelessly Hollywood, and wholly fictional climax, then capped the whole thing off with a coda that was essentially a tribute to his movie's authenticity, complete with side-by-side photos of… — 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 Image
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
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 Image
