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03/16/09
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The Edge of Love (2009)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:18
Rotten:35
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Despite effective performances from Knightley and Miller, The Edge of Love lacks a coherent narrative.
Theatrical Release:2008
Synopsis: Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) is told through the lives... [More]
Starring: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys
Director: John Maybury
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Reviews for The Edge of Love
It felt like a lighting class, not a movie.
03/16/09
Like a museum piece, placing historical figures in frozen positions, and asking us to judge them as the curators do.
03/19/09
This may be Knightley's first truly mature performance. Too bad it arrives wrapped in doggerel.
04/02/09
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04/23/09
A period romance, charged with provocative undercurrents about art, war and the eternal battle of the sexes.
03/20/09
Edge doesn't aspire to be anything more than a juicy British wartime soap opera, but when it finds delicious pockets of whispered betrayal, artistic impotency, and cherry-lipped invitation, it adds up to a convincing sit.
03/12/09
Notably only for a first act that credibly depicts a four-way relationship among friends and lovers without tilting embarrassingly toward titillation and/or soap opera.
03/19/09
Ah, the London Blitz. Bombs falling, buildings on fire, people dying all around. Good times, good times.
05/08/09
The best thing The Edge of Love could do for you is to send you back to Thomas's poetry. Dash this folderol. Open Under Milk Wood.
03/16/09
No one seems to know what the movie is about; is it about the friendship, Thomas's life and women, or the war?
03/13/09
Striking performances from Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller fail to compensate for the film's lack of narrative clarity.
03/11/09
Dylan Thomas's life is represented here, but John Maybury's hollow romantic drama is more interested in his women than in his literary art.
08/29/08
When it's over...we have to wonder why any of it mattered in the first place.
07/23/09
Unfortunately, like the murky visuals, the story is also muddled.
04/22/09
The cast is strong and the first act has an intriguingly dreamy quality, but it gives way to a soggy ending.
06/20/08
British biopic about Dylan Thomas, his wife, Caitlin, and their relationship with another couple is as maudlin as a poet after too many pints.
03/13/09
Though very uneven in style and focus . . . the fraught complications among the foursome raise universal issues of freewheeling young love and friendship during wartime.
03/22/09
Has about as much to do with Dylan Thomas as it does the 1984 Summer Olympics.
03/12/09
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]
07/08/09
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