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,… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Still, you can't complain about the number of movies being made. Never have the means of making movies been so accessible to so many. The problem is getting bodies into seats. — 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… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
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 Image
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… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
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… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
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