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."
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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 Swayze
"In 'Dirty Dancing,' Swayze combined brawny physicality and feline grace in a way that made millions of women (and a lot of men) weak in the knees."
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.
Downey’s Douchiness Reconsidered
"It's easier to see why Robert Downey Jr. bristled when asked what his character in 'Tropic Thunder' would say about Jamie Foxx’s performance as the brilliant cellist Nathaniel Ayers."
Edelstein on Robert Downey Jr.’s Controversial Press Conference
"There ought to be a rehab center for celebrity self-righteousness."
Edelstein on The Human Condition
'Yes, it’s worth it, but more for the experience — for the commitment itself — than because Kobayashi’s humanism will rock your world.'
Edelstein on the Observe and Report Debate
Does Seth Rogen rape Anna Faris in 'Observe and Report'? David Edelstein weighs in.
Edelstein on Sugar, The Escapist, and Windshield Realism
Over at his blog, David Edelstein reviews two movies we didn't have space for in this week's magazine, and weighs in on A.O. Scott's recent essay on neo-neo realism.
Edelstein on Troell’s ‘Entrancingly Beautiful’ Everlasting Moments
"There isn't a shot that looks like something you've seen before."
Edelstein on Last House on the Left
"Fascinating — and extremely entertaining if you don’t mind being morally corrupted at every juncture."
Edelstein Revisits 2008
Upon further review, David Edelstein has revised his list of 2008's best movies.
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