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Movie Review: Tangled is No Big Deal, But Still a Goofy Good Time
I can't help liking a movie with chameleon reaction shots.
Dueling Reviews: David Edelstein Takes on a Dissenter on Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture
David Edelstein and Miranda Siegel duke it out.
Movie Review: The Nutcracker in 3D — One Stinking Piece of Coal for Your Stocking
My daughter forgave me for taking her to this, but yours may not.
Movie Review: A Clumsy But Still Surprising The Next Three Days
Scene by scene, 'The Next Three Days' feels off.
Movie Review: The Ick and Wow of 127 Hours Doesn’t Add Up to Much
Danny Boyle gives us a music-video-style exercise. There's nothing to take home apart from the dwindling memory of sensation.
Movie Review: Nora’s Will Is Hereafter Minus the Sap
The Mexican film 'Nora's Will,' in its wry, understated way, is a far more searching depiction of life after death than Clint Eastwood's mawkishly supernatural film.
Movie Review: Red Is Graphic, Though Hardly Novel
The movie has an aura of hipness and a cast to die (in a hail of gunfire) for, but nothing can quite get it airborne.
Movie Review: A Righteous, Belabored Conviction
What female star wouldn’t jump at such Oscar bait? Prepare the net: Here comes Hilary Swank!
Movie Review: I Spit on Your Grave Is the Sickest Kind of Pleasure
Oh, the vile, sick, sadistic, despicable, depraved depths to which I will go.
Edelstein: Joaquin Phoenix’s I’m Still Here No Hoax
"To dismiss Phoenix's latest role because it’s not 'real' is to miss out on the charge of watching an actor play footsy with his own, barely corralled dementia."
Edelstein on Eat Pray Love: A ‘Golden Turd’
In Monday's issue, David Edelstein reviews the "golden turd" that is Julia Roberts's 'Eat Pray Love.'
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."
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.
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