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08/26/06
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Edmond (2006)
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Reviews Counted:72
Fresh:33
Rotten:39
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: A gothic fairytale that catches director Tim Burton and star Johnny Depp at the top of their games.
Theatrical Release:Jul 14, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: We've all seen him: the crazy guy on the street corner whose mutterings, just shy of intelligent commentary, make us wonder how he ended up this way. Edmond Burke (William H. Macy, THANK YOU FOR... [More]
Starring: William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Joe Mantegna, Rebecca Pidgeon
Director: Stuart Gordon
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Reviews for Edmond
Edmond is a slight, self-consciously arty affair that starts off like a gloomy version of Falling Down before petering out with a deeply anti-climatic ending.
07/06/07
It didn’t work.
07/06/07
Incredulity grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go.
07/06/07
After a while, I simply couldn’t empathize with Edmond and all his pain and suffering, and certainly not with all his exposed bigotries and delusions.
07/19/06
Top CriticThere is no actor more at ease with battered nerves than William H. Macy.
07/17/06
It plays like a low-cal Falling Down, with all the rage of Michael Douglas's office malcontent but none of his dark humour. Possibly the weakest thing Mamet has ever written.
07/06/07
Makes little sense as a character study, and borders on nonsense as a screed on race in America.
07/28/06
While all involved deserve credit for getting even limited financing to film such an off-putting work, they've mainly just proven that some things are better left on the stage.
08/13/06
"Edmond" is beyond black comedy, it's a comedy in almost total stygian darkness. A comedy where the laughs make you cough up razor blades.
04/20/08
a fussy little movie that wants to be much more controversial and important than it is.
07/13/06
It's a wordy script and, in its own profane way, a beautiful one, but it's the words that aren't said that are the most crucial.
08/25/06
Mamet's relentless attempts to provoke viewers seem pretty childish today.
07/19/06
Edmond is a failure as a story, but it's such a provocative and involving failure that it's worth a peek or two.
10/05/06
Depressing, disgusting, and dated, Edmond is worth braving to experience America’s best-known serious playwright at his most gruesomely undiluted.
07/17/06
Top CriticWhat a fight you'll have at dinner after seeing Edmond. And best of all, I think you might be surprised by who takes which side in the fight.
07/11/06
None of it rings true for even a NYC second.
12/20/06
This is a small film with a big payback, like a series of tableaux that illustrate how a mildmannered Mr Everyman can become viciously untamed.
07/06/07
A compact one act play ill translates into a hurried almost thirty-location shoot, a logistically plagued one at that.
07/12/06
William H. Macey (a David Mamet regular) gives a moving performance as a desperate man, but his work is curtailed by the playwright's starchy, semi-academic dialogue, and Stuart Gordon's direction doesn't help much either.
02/01/07
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