...a briskly-paced and mostly engaging romance that benefits rather substantially from the affable work of its stars...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2020

The dialogue sings, the direction is clean, and there are nearly countless moments that still stand out as iconic today.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 5, 2019

The Cutting Edge is an enjoyable piffle, completely divorced from any recognizable reality.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 20, 2019

Sweeney and Kelly spark off each other nicely and they are ably supported by the likes of Terry O'Quinn and Roy Dotrice.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2019

A rousing though late-arriving crowd-pleaser of sufficient wit, vitality and intelligence that you don't have to be a teen-ager to be thoroughly entertained by it.

| Jun 20, 2019

With interesting camera angles that show the speed and confusion of performance, the film makes a refreshing point about the merit of victory.

| Jun 20, 2019

The only thing that would have made this palatable in a mildly camp sort of way would have been the skating sequences.

| Jun 19, 2019

When Doug and Kate are off the ice, The Cutting Edge tends to come to a screeching halt. The script resembles an Astaire-Rogers musical with the song-and-dance numbers cut out.

| Jun 19, 2019

The Cutting Edge is an endlessly rewatchable, immensely enjoyable film that not only understands but embraces the fact that rom-coms are supposed to be fun.

| Jun 18, 2019

It's really fun classic rom-com stuff.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 13, 2019

The chemistry between the co-stars makes it work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2019

If there were a special Academy Award for Contrived Premise, this picture would be a hot favourite to scoop the statuette.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 25, 2019

I did, for once in my life, for the added pleasure that this would have brought to the watching experience, wish that I too was AN AMERICAN.

| Jul 23, 2018

The only thing that could make The Cutting Edge more absurd would be if the final competition revolved around a potentially deadly, possibly illegal move called the Pamchenko Twist. Wait, it does? Never mind. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 14, 2011

The movie is shamelessly watchable romantic schlock for the Sassy set.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Guilty-pleasure '90s romance you can skate to.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2010

Everyone except Sweeney and Kelly is excruciatingly bad, small wonder spouting lines that crash like lead pucks on to the ice.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 6, 2010

The Cuttingedge it isn't, but this neatly formulaic romantic comedy has a sharp enough combination of teen-oriented elements and style.

| Mar 26, 2009

A[n]... ice-skating obsessive might find something praiseworthy in all this predictable, ham-fisted, romantic tosh.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2005