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David Edelstein

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    Edelstein: The Time Traveling Looper Delivers in Spite of Iffy LogicYou must remember this: The fundamental things don’t apply as time goes by in the ballyhooed time-travel thriller Looper.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Trouble With the CurveEastwood plays an aging baseball scout in this formulaic drama.
    By David Edelstein
  3. Edelstein: The Perks of Being a Wallflower Nails Teenage AlienationEmma Watson stars in this exquisite adaption of the best-selling YA novel.
    By David Edelstein
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    Edelstein on The MasterA piece of stark, often abrasive American mythmaking.
    By David Edelstein
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    Edelstein on The Words: Nothing But Aimless Words, Words, WordsPlagiarism’s all the rage-arism in this Bradley Cooper film.
    By David Edelstein
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    Edelstein on Sleepwalk With Me: This Comedian’s LifeThis autobiographical monologue-film stars and is directed by funnyman Mike Birbiglia.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Bachelorette, For a Good Time CallTwo films in which girls talk dirty.
    By David Edelstein
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    Edelstein on Lawless: A Standard Revenge Film Played at Half-SpeedJohn Hillcoat’s latest is dead weight: listlessly classical and then bludgeoning.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Premium RushThis film is a rare bird — one that pretends to be nothing more than it is.
    By David Edelstein
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    Edelstein, Seitz, Abebe, and Schulz on Their Fall Culture PicksOur movie, TV, music, and book critics each choose five.
    By Vulture Editors
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    Edelstein on Tony Scott: A Director Incapable of Sitting StillFluidity, choreography, patterns of flux within the frame — none of these interested him as much as fractured montage.
    By David Edelstein
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    Edelstein: Robot & Frank Is a Screwball Machine DreamFrank Langella stars in this tale about an elderly ex–jewel thief and his robot assistant.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: The CampaignFiction should just throw in the towel when it comes to modern American politics.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: The Bourne LegacyThe Bourne films have wormed their way into the collective psyche the way the Bond movies did in the sixties.
    By David Edelstein
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    Edelstein: Hope Springs Is Painfully Mild This Meryl Streep flick is sure to pack them in on Movie and Bingo Night at the old-folks’ home.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Total Recall Is Chase, Jump, RepeatThis incarnation by Underworld and Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman is just noise — aural and visual
    By David Edelstein
  17. Edelstein: Celeste and Jesse Forever Is Eternally UnconvincingRashida Jones has co-written herself the “adorkable” role of Celeste in this seriously trying comedy.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Ruby SparksThe newest from the directors of Little Miss Sunshine is a thesis film, with one joke and one variation.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Killer JoeIt’s all rave and rage and purge acting in this dark, Texas-set film.
    By David Edelstein
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    Edelstein, Saltz on Marclay’s The ClockThe art critic vs. the film critic.
    By David Edelstein and Jerry Saltz
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    Movie Review: Edelstein on The Dark Knight RisesWhatever else The Dark Knight Rises is or isn’t, it’s big — very big.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: The Queen of VersaillesA real-estate billionaire and his wife get a taste of foreclosure in this documentary.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: The Imposter Is Shocking, and Shockingly EntertainingGuilt-inducingly so, given the ghastliness of its particulars.
    By David Edelstein
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    Edelstein: The Director’s Cut of Margaret Should Not Be Missed [UPDATE]At three hours, our critic sees what was missing from the panned, hacked-up version.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Oliver Stone Is Back in His Element With SavagesAfter soft-peddling sensationalism in his last three movies, Oliver Stone returns with a new maturity.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Ted Is a Comedy for the Idiot Adolescent in Every ManThis is the movie with the talking bear, in case you hadn’t heard.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-ManWe ought to shun cynical reboots like this. But for all its underlying cynicism, the new Spidey picture is pretty damn good.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Magic Mike Is Arty, Energetic, Soft-CoreSoderbergh’s latest parable of how capitalism transforms sex into a soulless commodity is surprisingly enjoyable.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Weighing the Ambitious Beasts of the Southern WildHow does the award winner at Sundance and Cannes fare?
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Pixar’s Brave Is Fast, Funny, UnpretentiousThe generic title and mythic-female-empowerment posters for Brave don’t prepare you for the rollicking comedy to come.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: A Too-Nice Carell Undercuts Seeking a Friend…And as a result, we found it hard to surrender to this gentle, wistful film.
    By David Edelstein
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    David Edelstein on Andrew Sarris, 1928–2012“When he loved something, he could barely contain himself.”
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: To Rome With Love Is a Blissful PostcardIt’s so magical it even makes Roberto Benigni appealing.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Ages Rocks Us Into Weary SubmissionYou might spend the whole movie beating your head against the floor to make it stop.
    By David Edelstein
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    Theater on the Big Screen: Christopher Plummer’s The Tempest Is a CharmerA performance of the Shakespeare classic will screen tonight in more than 500 theaters across the U.S.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Todd Solondz’s Dark Horse Achieves Compassionate RevulsionIt’s hard to get on and harder to stay on Todd Solondz’s wavelength, but his films are worth the near-constant recalibrations.
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    Prometheus Review: More Than Just an AlienThe stately prequel has none of Alien’s visceral punch but no long dull stretches of cat-searching, either.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Snow White and the Huntsman Is a Grim Fairy TaleThe dwarves in this dark film don’t do much singing.
    By David Edelstein
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    Vulture Recommends: David Edelstein’s Films to See This Memorial Day WeekendSteer clear of Men in Black III, check out Battleship.
    By David Edelstein
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    MIB 3 Can’t Make Up for Its Fundamental InertiaThere’s still talent here in the performances of Josh Brolin and an underrated Jemaine Clement.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Battleship Is Enjoyably TerribleIf you’re marveling at the irony of Americans and Japanese teaming up to fight an alien sneak attack at Pearl Harbor, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: The Dictator Is a Fantastic FarceSacha Baron Cohen’s latest is loose and silly and occasionally exhilarating.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Dark Shadows Is a Camp TravestyBurton-Depp was a great partnership for a while, but the director needs a new mascot.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: The Five-Year Engagement Is a Reactionary Rom-ComJason Segel and Emily Blunt star in this charming film with an odd message.
    By David Edelstein
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    David Edelstein Talks Lincoln Lawyer, Rand Paul’s Toilet IssuesThe Projectionist checks in.
    By Amos Barshad
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    Movie Review: Another Thrill Ride for Liam Neeson in UnknownThe movie is lean and fast and endlessly upending, and unlike most modern crash-and-bash films, you can actually follow the car chases and fisticuffs.
    By David Edelstein
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    The Fighter Is Not So Much Raging Bull As Raging FamilyIt’s a rousing film, with so much texture that once it gets you, you’re good and got.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Jim Carrey’s Gay Con Man Actually Great!Carrey triumphs, by playing Steven as a man who plays other people.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Tangled is No Big Deal, But Still a Goofy Good TimeI can’t help liking a movie with chameleon reaction shots.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Point-Counterpoint on Tiny FurnitureDavid Edelstein and Miranda Siegel duke it out.
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