David Edelstein

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

— David Edelstein

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.

— David Edelstein

Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster.

— David Edelstein

Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through.

— David Edelstein

Some reviewed 'The Master' on their knees, and while I respected its distinctive discordancy - can a movie be at once feverish…

— David Edelstein

Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting…

— David Edelstein

I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are…

— David Edelstein

My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction,…

— David Edelstein

Still, you can't complain about the number of movies being made. Never have the means of making movies been so accessible to…

— David Edelstein

Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect…

— David Edelstein

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

My reaction to 'Sin City' is easily stated. I loved it. Or, to put it another way, I loved it, I loved…

— David Edelstein

Cillian Murphy is the guy who battled viral zombies in '28 Days Later' and put a gas-spewing bag over his head in…

— David Edelstein

King Arthur is profoundly stupid and inept.. then there's Clive Owen, rising above it all. Aloof yet watchful, the actor cultivates an…

— David Edelstein

Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first…

— David Edelstein

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…

— David Edelstein

If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice…

— David Edelstein

As a critic, I try to stay neutral about movies before I see them, but I really wanted "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" to…

— David Edelstein

It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the…

— David Edelstein

There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short…

— David Edelstein

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

You can feel righteous fury in every frame of The Magdalene Sisters. The movie is both a masterpiece and a holy hell:…

— David Edelstein

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

— David Edelstein

I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines.

— David Edelstein

The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.

— David Edelstein

It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad.…

— David Edelstein

Along with my peers, I gripe about the increasing number of superhero films, and I'm sad that so many critics so uncritically…

— David Edelstein

I have a female colleague who gets annoyed that Tina Fey seems to go out of her way in her movies to…

— David Edelstein

I think I can safely call 2012 average. Overall, it was a stronger year for nonfiction than fiction - a situation that…

— David Edelstein

The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books.

— David Edelstein

Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to…

— David Edelstein

I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting…

— David Edelstein

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

The rise of video on demand will make it possible for small movies to earn back costs via $9.95 24-hour rentals and…

— David Edelstein

What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by…

— David Edelstein