The film then goes from a chamber drama to something larger; it doesn't always work. The poetry and the performances... though, and they make the thoughtful and stylish The Edge of Love something more than just another British costume drama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 10, 2018

The whole thing has come out as a muddle, and a cold-hearted, alienating muddle at that. If this is the life of literary people, then the literary people can keep it.

| Aug 23, 2018

[D]irector John Maybury treats the proceedings like Josef von Sternberg wet dream, at once elegant, campy and desiccated.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Nov 17, 2011

[Knightley & Miller] frolicking on the beach ... could easily be a couple of models from a Boden fashion shoot at play.

| Nov 22, 2010

When it's over...we have to wonder why any of it mattered in the first place.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 23, 2009

Maybury tackles the great Dylan Thomas in The Edge of Love, a speculative investigation into a cloudy period of the poet and dramatist's personal life. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 8, 2009

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| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 14, 2009

Ah, the London Blitz. Bombs falling, buildings on fire, people dying all around. Good times, good times.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 8, 2009

Unfortunately, like the murky visuals, the story is also muddled.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 22, 2009

A bit too arty and concerned with quasi-historical detail to catch fire as a romance (doomed or otherwise), and too yawningly familiar in its major chord plotting to set sail as a honest character ensemble.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 19, 2009

While all the pieces are there for an intriguing film, John Maybury's The Edge of Love never really becomes anything.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 17, 2009

The Edge of Love is literate and often lovely to look at, but unless you're requesting an off-key bohemian rhapsody, do not go gentle into that good theater.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 16, 2009

| Original Score: B- | Apr 10, 2009

The Edge of Love holds a lot of promise in its first hour and never completely falls apart, but it's ultimately not the movie it might have been.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 3, 2009

This may be Knightley's first truly mature performance. Too bad it arrives wrapped in doggerel.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 2, 2009

Though very uneven in style and focus . . . the fraught complications among the foursome raise universal issues of freewheeling young love and friendship during wartime.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 22, 2009

The picture's combination of stylistic splash and pretentious turgidity makes for a long slog. It may be accurate, but by the time it drags to an end, you won't really care.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 22, 2009

A period romance, charged with provocative undercurrents about art, war and the eternal battle of the sexes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2009

For all its vivid evocation of its characters' tomorrow-we-die bonhomie, the film finally never quite convinces viewers of its central subject: the sisterly, almost sapphic bond between Vera and Caitlin.

| Mar 20, 2009

The movie makes for an engaging enough period piece.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 20, 2009