Striking performances from Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller fail to compensate for the film's lack of narrative clarity.
Comment
03/11/09
Rate this Movie 
The Edge of Love (2009)
34
%
Tomatometer
How does the Tomatometer work
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
Get This Movie
Rent DVD
Click on the "ADD" button to put this movie into your Netflix queue.
Buy DVD
Reviews for The Edge of Love
Above all else though, it whets the appetite for another look at Dylan Thomas and his wife, a prospect which previously seemed dauntingly difficult for a film-maker to tackle.
10/18/08
It is an exasperatingly unfocused and underpowered movie that, like Churchill's famous themeless pudding, is unsure what it is supposed to be about.
10/18/08
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
Maybury at least makes it lush, which is a relief from the drab realism of other English lit biopics.
08/29/08
Solid, if melodramatic...
08/29/08
An intense and strangely beautiful film...
08/29/08
The film's cinematic signature is made up of moody imagery that is still grounded in reality, but with poetic flourish. Angela Badalamenti's score is elegantly understated
08/14/08
Love, war and poetry swirl together to form this cocktail of a film, in which fantasy and reality are the main, but conflicting ingredients
08/14/08
Impressively directed, superbly written drama with career-best performances from both Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller.
07/18/08
The cast is strong and the first act has an intriguingly dreamy quality, but it gives way to a soggy ending.
06/20/08
While the period drama has several redeeming features, tonally it's all over the map, veering between artsy stylization and hum-drum, sometimes almost twee melodrama.
06/19/08
As a look at two women who find an unusual connection, it's rather beautiful.
06/19/08
The film succeeds as a deeply involving study of men and women caught up in a whirlwind beyond their control.
06/18/08
Latest News for The Edge of Love
March 15, 2009:
Trailer & Poster review. 
More...
March 12, 2009:
Critics Consensus: Race to Witch Mountain Doesn't Cast A Spell
This week at the movies, we've got a supernatural quest (Race to Witch Mountain, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and AnnaSophia Robb), a vengeance thriller (Last House on... More...
July 01, 2008:
Edinburgh 2008: What to Watch
We share twenty of the best films screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, currently running in the Scottish city. More...
June 20, 2008:
RT Interview: Keira Knightley on Welsh Accents and Life After Pirates
Britain's hottest young actress tells RT why supporting homegrown films is important as she talks about her latest role in Dylan Thomas biopic The Edge of Love. More...
RT On Current TV
What’s Hot On RT
Fresh Links
Featured
Best Dozen of the Decade
Last week, MSN gave us their top 09 films. Now see what their favorites of the decade are!
Top 50 of 2009
Here's a list of the 50 best movies of 2009, according to the good people over at Moviefone.
Santa's Naughty List
Hollywood.com takes a stab at determining who in movies will be on Santa's naughty list in 2009.
Top 10 Movies of 2009
TIME chimes in with their own list of the best films released this year.
Top 20 of the Decade
Click through to see which movies BuzzSugar placed in their Best-of-Decade list!
Promos
Follow RT on Twitter
Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!
RSS Feeds