Postcards From the Edge is hardly a sob story, and not a "woman's movie" from the '40s. It's very savvy and snotty and a little sexy, too.

| Apr 30, 2024

With a major assist from [director] Mike Nichols, Fisher has now transformed her novel into a smashingly entertaining movie. Postcards From the Edge is a hilarious, surprisingly poignant comedy about learning to accept one's parents.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 30, 2024

Where it pleases, Postcards pleases liberally. At least it never, ever resembles a soap opera. And nearly every performance in this picture glitters.

| Apr 30, 2024

[Postcards From the Edge] is the kind of Hollywood movie a clef that Hollywood loves. It's morally double-jointed. The film's smug attitudes and in-jokes are symptoms of the Tinseltown insularity the screenplay tries to attack.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 30, 2024

Fisher’s deadpan reporting on the Hollywood scene never feels bitter or even cruel. It just has a matter-of-fact malevolence about it. She’s abetted by Shirley MacLaine’s performance, less a homage than a critique of the character she’s playing.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 30, 2024

There's a daffy, truly endearing quality about the paper-thin Postcards From the Edge.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2024

[Postcards From the Edge is] a smart, sharp, showbiz psycho-comedy that has everything: stars, surprises, flawless production values and a go-go pace that makes time fly. Fisher's screenplay doesn't duplicate the book, but the spirit survives.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 30, 2024

Fisher's subtle wit is priceless.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 30, 2024

Fisher, who wrote the screenplay, is up to more than merely harpooning life in La La Land, although she does a thorough job of that. Postcards is about second chances about forgiving, if not forgetting.

| Apr 29, 2024

Mostly a comedy, but boasting some touching moments as well, the movie is another tribute to the talent of producer/director Mike Nichols. Postcards ranks right up there with classics, such as Steel Magnolias.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 29, 2024

See the film directed by Mike Nichols and enjoy the enormous talent by two magnificent actresses [Streep & MacLaine]. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 29, 2024

Fisher neatly skewers Hollywood pretension. And Nichols enlists a first-rate cast in cameo roles, including Dennis Quaid as an oversexed producer, Gene Hackman as a compassionate director and Richard Dreyfuss as a smitten doctor.

| Apr 29, 2024

As a glossy entertainment, Postcards from the Edge is more than skin deep and every inch a winner.

| Apr 29, 2024

Mike Nichols and Carrie Fisher have written a vitriolically funny poison-pen letter to Hollywood's pretensions and a refreshingly unsentimental billet-doux to the tangled and unending frictions between mothers and daughters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2024

The film is far from perfect, but it's an enormous pleasure and the performers are so good you can forgive the weak elements.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2024

Streep and MacLaine don't look much like relatives, but they certainly look like movie stars, and that's what's most important in the variety-show business.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2024

Writer Carrie Fisher and director Mike Nichols have conspired to keep the story crackling; and Nichols has never directed with greater economy, moving into and out of situations rapidly, using drama to set off humor the way velvet sets off jewelry.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 29, 2024

Like any Mike Nichols movie, Postcards is a masterpiece of craft. But Nichols is a Broadway baby who shies away from complex and painful feelings.

| Apr 29, 2024

How is it possible for so many good actors to grate so badly in one movie?

| Apr 29, 2024

If you're looking for serious insight into the heroine's battles with drug addiction and her actress mother, you're not going to find it here. [But] Meryl Streep as the daughter and Shirley MacLaine as the mother offer a one-two punch of pure delight.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 29, 2024