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David Edelstein

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Biography:

I started way back at the Harvard Crimson, then moved on to the Boston Phoenix, then the Village Voice, then the New York Post, then oblivion, then Slate and Fresh Air. I also wrote a book with Christine Vachon called Shooting to Kill and a couple of plays, chiefly Blaming Mom (a comedy).

Favorites:

The Lady Eve, The General, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Shop Around the Corner, The Godfather, Smiles of a Summer Night, Rules of the Game, Jaws, Ride the High Country, His Girl Friday, Bride of Frankenstein, Seven Samurai, Ashes and Diamonds, Touch of Evil, Singing in the Rain, Night of the Living Dead, and about 100 others.

Reviews

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EDIT “The flat animation-rudimentary movement, Rushmore heads with mouths that open and close-doesn't help to fill out the portrait. The larger problem with the show is that it doesn't transcend its campiness.” – Slate Nov 11, 2019 Full Review The Academy Awards: Season 73 (2001) 59% EDIT “The 2001 edition of the Academy Awards was fast, clean, unmemorable. The risks were few, the payoff small, the Best Picture prize somehow both shocking and anticlimactic.” – Slate Nov 8, 2019 Full Review The Academy Awards: Season 74 (2002) 69% EDIT “Nathan Lane had the best lines of the evening... Why was his stuff so good and Whoopi's so awful? The schizophrenic gag was one of the all-time Oscar lows.” – Slate Nov 7, 2019 Full Review The Academy Awards: Season 75 (2003) 45% EDIT “The war didn't seem to be a problem for Steve Martin, who chose not to let it interfere with his jokes. Some of them were bracingly cynical, but most were witless and cruel.” – Slate Nov 4, 2019 Full Review The Academy Awards: Season 77 (2005) 57% EDIT “About 80 percent of Rock's material was great, and, unlike Sean Penn, I didn't mind that he stuck it to Jude Law and Colin Farrell, both of whom were way, way overexposed last year.” – Slate Nov 1, 2019 Full Review The Academy Awards: Season 78 (2006) 54% EDIT “The best opening half hour of any Oscar ceremony EVER -- the funniest monologue, the best clips... Jon Stewart killed.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 1, 2019 Full Review The Academy Awards: Season 89 (2017) 67% EDIT “The impact of Barry Jenkins's words were blunted, as was the message of hope to the kind of kids who will no longer have the same protection in their schools that they did last year. Then our emcee made bad impromptu jokes.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 25, 2019 Full Review The Academy Awards: Season 80 (2008) 52% EDIT “Was that especially uneventful, Lynda, or will all Oscar ceremonies henceforth play as if they'd already happened once before in a galaxy far, far away? Not at all the Mardi Gras blowout I'd hoped for.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 12, 2019 Full Review The Academy Awards: Season 90 (2018) 47% EDIT “This was the best, most inspiring, and most sheerly likable Academy Awards telecast I've ever seen and I've seen 'em all.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 18, 2019 Full Review
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