It's likely moviegoers will remember a bear more than the limp dialogue -- that is stale David Mamet.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 10, 2023

I really enjoy this unique character that Hopkins created in The Edge, and I feel he owns the movie.

| Apr 10, 2020

The Edge, for all its hokiness, makes it real. When Hopkins comes down from the mountain, I believed he was looking at the world with new eyes.

| Feb 27, 2018

It's not hard to read Charles' journey in 'The Edge' as analogous to its author's: the library-dwelling intellectual using his wits to brave rougher elements.

| Oct 7, 2017

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

Mamet has always been concerned with primal masculinity...The test of these men is twofold: can they survive the wilderness, and can they survive each other? [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 31, 2010

A pretty routine B-type action movie with some nice touches.

| Jun 27, 2008

A riveting story of survival, and the most rousing and gripping outdoor adventure since the original Jaws. One of 1997's very best films.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 25, 2006

...not a terrifically memorable piece of filmmaking.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jan 8, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 2, 2004

Unsuccessfully mixes melodrama with action/adventure and satire.

| Original Score: C | Jan 21, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 16, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 11, 2002

Mamets and Baldwins and bears. Oh my!

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 12, 2002

A few scattered profanities, a couple of gory accidents and a subplot about suspected adultery are all that separates this story from the grade-school classic "My Side of the Mountain."

| Jun 23, 2002

The Edge, more of a drama than the action/thriller it's being billed as, exhibits a restrained literateness that's quite effective.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2002