Postcards from the Edge Reviews
EmanuelLevy.Com
Nichols' version of Carrie Fisher's memoir of a drug-addicted actress (well played by Meryl Streep), and her troubled bond with her famous mother (inspired by mom Debbie Reynolds) is sleek, shallow and sporadically entertaining.
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| Original Score: C+
Top CriticThere's not much depth here, but Nichols does a fine job with the surface effects, and the wisecracks keep coming.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Yet further proof that Hollywood makes its best films about what it knows best--making films in Hollywood.
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| Original Score: 3/4
In this era of postverbal cinema, Postcards proves that movie dialogue can still carry the sting, heft and meaning of the finest old romantic comedy.
Packs a fair amount of emotional wallop in its dark-hued comic take on a chemically dependent Hollywood mother and daughter.
Fisher's intelligence and humour turn what might have been movie brat indulgence into something much sharper and involving.
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)
Meryl lets her hair down and it looks good in this Hollywood tell-all.
| Original Score: 3/5
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Weak script but brilliant performances and moments of heart-twisting poignance and insight.
| Original Score: 4/5
Shadows on the Wall
Biting humour and terrific performances.
| Original Score: 4/5
Lawrence Journal-World
One of Streep's most likeable performances
| Original Score: 4/5
''Postcards From the Edge'' is a vehicle, but it's a custom-built Rolls.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Generally entertaining, but finally not all that effective.
| Original Score: 3/5
Film Threat
The older generation had it made. Drinking is legal.
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| Original Score: 4/5
