Edelstein on Scott Pilgrim: ‘Blows [Its] Wad Too Early’
"Cera is a superhero for an indecisive generation, which might work if the disjunction were played for satire."
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Edelstein on Salt: ‘A Senseless Blast’
"What 'Salt' lacks in coherence it makes up in centrifugal force."
Edelstein on Inception: ‘Clunky and Confusing on Four Separate Levels of Reality’
"The tone is so solemn I felt out of line even cracking a smile."
Edelstein on Sex and the City 2: An ‘Epic Eyesore’
"It begins with the nightmarish manic gaiety of 'Mamma Mia!,' with strenuous lockjawed smiles that make you think you’re watching stroke victims."
Edelstein on the ‘Libertarian Smokescreen’
"To fight the charges of Puritanism, I guess I have to haul out my pervert-atheist credentials and support for legal marijuana."
David Edelstein: Give Movies With Tobacco an Automatic ‘R’
"These days, I don't believe that the anti-smoking crusaders are so out of line, at least in their demand that movies with cigarettes get an automatic 'R' rating."
A Trio of Posts From David Edelstein for You to Feast On
In one of them, he proclaims 'The Lovely Bones' to be the worst film of 2009.
David Edelstein: Avatar Is ‘A Mighty Achievement’
Mainly because Cameron "understands the value of GIGANTISM and AWESOMENESS."
David Edelstein On the Slowed-Down Pace of New Moon
"Weitz’s compositions have no spark, though, and his pacing is so flaccid that you’re going to need the electricity of a live, first-weekend audience to stay charged up."
Edelstein on 2012
"'2012' rides in on and reinforces an especially idiotic wave of evangelical doomsday predictions with supposed roots in the Mayan calendar, and it’s too trivial to live."
Edelstein on This Is It
"It's vivid, illuminating, and sometimes — more often than you’d think possible — inspiring."
Edelstein on Antichrist
"It turns out what they say about Willem Dafoe is true: The man has a schlong the size of an oil tanker."
Edelstein on Polanski
"Now, there will be a lot of grandstanding by idiots, who will say that Polanski is worse than the likes of Peter Braunstein and should be thrown in prison for the remainder of his life."
Edelstein on Moore
"It's sprawling, scattershot, sniggery, and, in one instance, exploitative. It's brazenly one-sided. But ..."
Edelstein on Ignoring Critics
David Edelstein, too, is disappointed 'Final Destination 3-D' and 'Halloween II' won't be screened for critics.
Edelstein on Hughes
"Of all the big, commercially successful American auteurs, he has always seemed to me the most mysterious, the most conflicted, the most unfulfilled."
Edelstein Unabridged
You've read David Edelstein's reviews of 'Harry Potter 6' and '(500) Days of Summer' — but have you read them with footnotes?
Edelstein on Bay’s Transformers 2: ‘Self-parody’
"I don’t have much nice to say about 'Transformers 2,' but I’m happy to see my Park Slope neighbor John Turturro get another big paycheck."
Edelstein on David Carradine
David Carradine didn’t seem given to advance planning, career calculation, or control. He was the anti–Tom Cruise.
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