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The Edge of Love (2008)

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35

Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 57
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 37

Despite effective performances from Knightley and Miller, The Edge of Love lacks a coherent narrative.

24

Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 13

Despite effective performances from Knightley and Miller, The Edge of Love lacks a coherent narrative.

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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 53,336

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The Jacket director John Maybury adapts playwright Sharman MacDonald's account of the true-life relationships shared between Welsh poet Dylan Thomas; his wife, Caitlin; his lifelong friend Vera Phillips; and her husband, William Killick, in this biographical drama centering on the curious incident in which Thomas found his home turned into a war zone when Phillips and Killick attacked the abode with a machine gun and a grenade. Sienna Miller assumes the role of Dylan's wife, Caitlin, and Keira

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Drama, Romance

Sharman MacDonald

Jul 14, 2009

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All Critics (61) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (39) | DVD (7)

The Edge of Love holds a lot of promise in its first hour and never completely falls apart, but it's ultimately not the movie it might have been.

April 3, 2009 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
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This may be Knightley's first truly mature performance. Too bad it arrives wrapped in doggerel.

April 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Globe
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For all its vivid evocation of its characters' tomorrow-we-die bonhomie, the film finally never quite convinces viewers of its central subject: the sisterly, almost sapphic bond between Vera and Caitlin.

March 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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The movie makes for an engaging enough period piece.

March 20, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Post
New York Post
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While Thomas fans will regret seeing their literary hero reduced to a generic drunk, even those awaiting the aforementioned bathtub scene will find it barely worth the effort.

March 20, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Daily News
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Booze and jealousy make a toxic cocktail, one that's heavily imbibed with much self-lacerating gusto in the grim British drama The Edge of Love.

March 20, 2009
New York Times
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[Knightley & Miller] frolicking on the beach ... could easily be a couple of models from a Boden fashion shoot at play.

November 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Talk
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It's so hard, being a poet. ... Such is the wisdom of The Edge of Love, a movie unfortunately as banal as its tagline, 'The only thing more dangerous than war is love.'

July 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore Sun

...makes us wonder by the time it's over whether it was worth our trouble watching it. (Blu-ray Edition)

July 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

When it's over...we have to wonder why any of it mattered in the first place.

July 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

Maybury tackles the great Dylan Thomas in The Edge of Love, a speculative investigation into a cloudy period of the poet and dramatist's personal life. [Blu-ray]

July 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews
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May 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses
Movies for the Masses

Ah, the London Blitz. Bombs falling, buildings on fire, people dying all around. Good times, good times.

May 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Unfortunately, like the murky visuals, the story is also muddled.

April 22, 2009 Full Review Source: E! Online
E! Online

A bit too arty and concerned with quasi-historical detail to catch fire as a romance (doomed or otherwise), and too yawningly familiar in its major chord plotting to set sail as a honest character ensemble.

April 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Shared Darkness
Shared Darkness

While all the pieces are there for an intriguing film, John Maybury's The Edge of Love never really becomes anything.

April 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Playback:stl
Playback:stl

The Edge of Love is literate and often lovely to look at, but unless you're requesting an off-key bohemian rhapsody, do not go gentle into that good theater.

April 16, 2009 Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Though very uneven in style and focus . . . the fraught complications among the foursome raise universal issues of freewheeling young love and friendship during wartime.

March 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com
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Audience Reviews for The Edge of Love

I'm no fan of Keira Rat-Face Knightley, but I have to say, she is photographed remarkably well in this movie. Her singing scenes are gorgeous with the shiny lipstick and stiff coiffure, the fuzzy Vaseline lens and the red, green, and blue filters. Her lip-syncing and singing expressions looked pretty convincing as well.

Then I found out she sang her own songs! Well, color me impressed. Those musical numbers are easily the best parts of the movie. The twisted love...parallelogram is too subtle, too full of wist. There isn't much development on how exactly Vera and Caitlin become besties, what exactly went on between Dylan and Vera, why William becomes so disturbed.
June 14, 2011
aliceinpunderland

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A well made film with a strong cast and good production values. Good use of cinematography and some good acting talent on show. I was very impressed with the Welsh accents. Anyone who thinks Sienna Miller is just a pretty face should see this, one of her best performances I have seen. Loosely based on true events around the relationships the poet Dylan Thomas had at the time of the second world war. Overall I'm not a big drama fan and it is a bit slow at times. If you like relationship dramas or any of the actors, this would probably be a 4 star film for you!
March 15, 2011
Deano78

Super Reviewer

    1. Dylan Thomas: Not for the proud man apart from the raging moon I write on the spendthrift pages, nor for the towering dead with their nightingales and psalms, but for the lovers, their arms round the griefs of the ages.
    – Submitted by Jamie M (6 months ago)
    1. Vera Phillips: You don't even see me, do you? Dylan! All you've got is stories in your head. Words. And I have to feel real. William... makes me real.
    – Submitted by Jamie M (6 months ago)
    1. Dylan Thomas: I do it, sleep with other women... because I'm a poet, and a poet feeds off life.
    – Submitted by Jamie M (6 months ago)

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Foreign Titles

  • Edge of Love - Was von der Liebe bleibt (DE)
  • En el límite del amor (ES)
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