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Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 13 critic reviews
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Based on 4 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Romance
Written by: Sharman MacDonald
Directed by: John Maybury
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 13, 2009
DVD: July 14, 2009
Running Time: 110 minutes, Color
Origin: UK
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, and Matthew Rhys
Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. Desire and guilt are complicated by love and friendship in this real-life tale set in beautiful London and the majestic Welsh countryside. (Capitol Films)
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What The Critics Said
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Empire Olly Richards
The cast is strong and the first act has an intriguingly dreamy quality, but it gives way to a soggy ending.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett
The film belongs to the women, with Knightley going from strength to strength (and showing she can sing!) and Miller again proving that she has everything it takes to be a major movie star.
Read Full Review >Variety Leslie Felperin
While the period drama has several redeeming features, tonally it's all over the map, veering between artsy stylization and hum-drum, sometimes almost twee melodrama.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
The Edge Of Love is more like a museum piece, placing historical figures in frozen positions, and asking us to judge them as the curators do.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
That none of the protagonists earns the audience's sympathy is more likely a failure of the real-life characters rather than the actors, who deliver fine performances -- especially Rhys, who seems to be channeling Richard Burton channeling Dylan Thomas at his most manipulatively loutish.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
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.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
The best thing The Edge of Love could do for you is to send you back to Thomas's poetry. Dash this folderol.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Sometimes glossy, sometimes hard-edged, the film alternates between glitz and unpleasantness and ends as a kind of glum soap opera, too glam to be bleak and too bleak to be so glam.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
The Edge of Love may be intended as a biopic of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, but it’s destined to be remembered as the movie that brought Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller into the same bathtub.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
The story here, plucked from Thomas's life and embellished, proves almost entirely devoid of interest.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
A "great poet" movie, the poet in this case being Dylan Thomas, and it's utter bollocks.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
A stagy, arty, and uncompelling account of the Welsh writer and his menage-y relations.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Melissa Anderson
Director John Maybury showed a defter hand with the artist biopic in his 1998 Francis Bacon film, "Love Is the Devil." Here he repeatedly falls into the genre’s traps, creating an inert, claustrophobic movie.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.2 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jay H. gave it a6:
Well produced, but they seemed to try too hard on the period detail. Too many slow stretches prevent it from being a great film. The film lacks spunk, it's too bland. The performances are fine, good art direction.
Roz gave it a3:
A period piece that has no idea what it wants to be, crippled by the presence of a preposterously unlikable core character. Sienna Miller and Cillian Murphy march off with the acting honors, though Miller can't corral her supposedly Irish accent and Murphy's William Killick spends eighty percent of the film off-screen. Keira Knightley is her usual brittle self, and Dylan Thomas, as portrayed by Matthew Rhys, is such a boozing, backstabbing sponge and a cad that you can't understand why either of his so-called "great loves" had anything to do with him. Next time, hire a script editor for Sharman Macdonald, and tell Ms. Macdonald she's to pick a theme and stick with it.
Andrew E gave it a9:
A fantastic film. Very well acted, atmospheric with brilliant set pieces. The drama between these characters can be electric. One of my favourite movies this year.
