- 11/15/12 /
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Edelstein on Joe Wright's Anna Karenina: A Boldly Original Miscalculation
A tour de force in the wrong direction.
David Edelstein
- 11/9/12 /
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Edelstein on Skyfall: The Bond Myth Is Mightier Than Ever
Sam Mendes sends 007 into a battle that’s not just Bondian — it’s Oedipal, it’s biblical. And it’s absolutely thrilling.
- 11/7/12 /
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Edelstein: Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln Is Splendid, Masterful
Spielberg should make a prequel to this movie.
- 11/2/12 /
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Edelstein on A Late Quartet: Walken, Hoffman, and Keener Play Beautiful Music Together
Soap operas featuring musicians are in a different league than all the rest.
- 11/1/12 /
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Edelstein on Flight: Denzel Washington Is Titanic As a Drunk Hero Pilot
No actor is as brilliant, or as cunning, as Denzel Washington at portraying superhuman coolness and the scary prospect of its loss.
- 10/24/12 /
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Cloud Atlas Rumble: A Movie and Book Critic Square Off Over the Centuries-Spanning Film
David Edelstein vs. Kathryn Schulz ... GO!
- 10/19/12 /
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Edelstein on Alex Cross: Coarse, Punishing, and Conscienceless
Where's Morgan Freeman when you actually need him?
- 10/19/12 /
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Edelstein: The Sessions Rises Far Above Its Disability-of-the Week Conceit
A sexual coming-of-age movie. For a 38-year-old man in an iron lung.
- 10/17/12 /
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Edelstein on Holy Motors: A Film of Unfettered Imagination
Director Léos Carax is incapable of an impersonal shot.
- 10/12/12 /
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Edelstein on Sinister: Can a Single Movie Snuff Out One’s Love of Horror Films?
When a genre comes to consist principally of movies like this, then it’s time to find some other way of getting your jollies.
- 10/11/12 /
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Edelstein on Affleck’s Argo: An Irresistible Blend of Cool Realism and Hollywood Hokum
Ben Affleck mashes up political thrills with movie-business satire in his new film.
- 10/5/12 /
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Edelstein on Taken 2: Look Who’s Taken Now
Rated PG-13, this sequel could have done with a tad more splatter.
- 10/4/12 /
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Edelstein on Wuthering Heights: Wind and Rain Are This Romance’s Most Passionate Elements
So much nature.
- 9/28/12 /
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Edelstein on Pitch Perfect: This A Cappella Musical Comedy Sings the Sweetest Song
It's the year’s most exhilarating pick-me-up.
- 9/27/12 /
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Edelstein: The Time Traveling Looper Delivers in Spite of Iffy Logic
You must remember this: The fundamental things don’t apply as time goes by in the ballyhooed time-travel thriller Looper.
- 9/21/12 /
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Edelstein on Trouble With the Curve: An Innocuous Drama That Exposes the Eastwood Worldview
Eastwood plays an aging baseball scout in this formulaic drama.
- 9/20/12 /
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Edelstein: The Perks of Being a Wallflower Nails Teenage Alienation
Emma Watson stars in this exquisite adaption of the best-selling YA novel.
- 9/10/12 /
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Edelstein: There Won’t Be Blood in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Chilly, Cerebral The Master
A piece of stark, often abrasive American mythmaking.
- 9/7/12 /
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Edelstein on The Words: Nothing But Aimless Words, Words, Words
Plagiarism’s all the rage-arism in this Bradley Cooper film.
- 8/31/12 /
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Edelstein on Sleepwalk With Me: This Comedian’s Life
This autobiographical monologue-film stars and is directed by funnyman Mike Birbiglia.
- 8/31/12 /
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Edelstein on Bachelorette and For a Good Time, Call...: Uneven But Ballsy
Two films in which girls talk dirty.
- 8/29/12 /
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Edelstein on Lawless: A Standard Revenge Film Played at Half-Speed
John Hillcoat's latest is dead weight: listlessly classical and then bludgeoning.
- 8/24/12 /
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Edelstein on Premium Rush: When a Chase Picture Is Thankfully Just a Chase Picture
This film is a rare bird — one that pretends to be nothing more than it is.
- 8/23/12 /
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Edelstein, Seitz, Abebe, and Schulz on Their Fall Culture Picks
Our movie, TV, music, and book critics each choose five.
- 8/20/12 /
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Edelstein on Tony Scott: A Director Incapable of Sitting Still
Fluidity, choreography, patterns of flux within the frame — none of these interested him as much as fractured montage.