Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to artistic health. — 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 whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank… — 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 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
