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

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

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

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

While Thomas fans will regret seeing their literary hero reduced to a generic drunk, even those awaiting the aforementioned bathtub scene will find it barely worth the effort.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2009

Booze and jealousy make a toxic cocktail, one that's heavily imbibed with much self-lacerating gusto in the grim British drama The Edge of Love.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2009

The Edge of Love is the sort of muddled melodrama that has little to say about love, or anything else.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2009

A stagy, arty, and uncompelling account of the Welsh writer and his menage-y relations with his boozy Irish wife and his young Welsh girlfriend.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 19, 2009

Like a museum piece, placing historical figures in frozen positions, and asking us to judge them as the curators do.

| Original Score: C | Mar 19, 2009

Occasionally, Angelo Badalamenti's fine score will pleasantly remind you of Mulholland Drive. Knightley and Miller's pseudo-sapphic tub-splashing will not.

| Mar 17, 2009

The film is on far less ground when it eventually becomes yet another wartime domestic tale, with Maybury's semi-kicky style draining out slowly until mediocrity settles in.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 16, 2009

The best thing The Edge of Love could do for you is to send you back to Thomas's poetry. Dash this folderol. Open Under Milk Wood.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 16, 2009

The Edge of Love has, as they say, all the tools, all the elements that usually make for success. It ought to be coaxing superlatives from all and sundry, but instead it leaves a bitter, unsatisfying aftertaste that lingers in the mind.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 12, 2009

Director John Maybury showed a defter hand with the artist biopic in his 1998 Francis Bacon film, Love Is the Devil.

| Mar 12, 2009

It is an exasperatingly unfocused and underpowered movie that, like Churchill's famous themeless pudding, is unsure what it is supposed to be about.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Above all else though, it whets the appetite for another look at Dylan Thomas and his wife, a prospect which previously seemed dauntingly difficult for a film-maker to tackle.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

Maybury at least makes it lush, which is a relief from the drab realism of other English lit biopics.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2008