- 5/17/13 /
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Edelstein: Frances Ha Is Sour, with Glimpses of Sublimity
Noah Baumbach has a hard time letting go of the notion that drama means building to humiliation.
David Edelstein Archive
- 5/14/13 /
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Edelstein: My Star Trek Into Darkness Spoiler Clarification
Spoilers, obviously. Seriously, really.
- 5/14/13 /
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Edelstein on Star Trek Into Darkness: Prepare to Be Bombarded Into Happiness
J.J. Abrams directs the sequel to his 2009 reboot.
- 5/10/13 /
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Edelstein: Sarah Polley Climbs Her Own Family Tree in the Meta-Doc Stories We Tell
A documentary by the actress-turned-filmmaker.
- 5/7/13 /
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Edelstein: Why I Sort of Liked The Great Gatsby
The best thing about Baz Luhrmann’s much-anticipated/much-dreaded The Great Gatsby is that it is unmistakably F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
- 5/2/13 /
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Edelstein: Iron Man 3 Succeeds by Skimping on the Iron Man
Director Shane Black understands that no actor can triumph over a cartoon tin man.
- 4/26/13 /
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Edelstein on Pain & Gain: Michael Bay Hits New Levels of Artistry and Sleaziness
The new film stars Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson.
- 4/25/13 /
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Edelstein: A Tree-Dwelling Matthew McConaughey Steals the Show in Mud
This is the third feature by the Arkansas-born director Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories and Take Shelter).
- 4/19/13 /
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Edelstein: The Lords of Salem Is Rob Zombie’s Satanic Answer to Malick’s To the Wonder
It’s To the Horror.
- 4/19/13 /
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Edelstein: Everything in Oblivion Feels 100 Percent Inauthentic
Was Tom Cruise trying to beat out fellow Scientologist John Travolta for the honor of starring in the dumbest sci-fi epic ever?