Edge of Love, The

Empire Olly Richards

The cast is strong and the first act has an intriguingly dreamy quality, but it gives way to a soggy ending.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

The story here, plucked from Thomas's life and embellished, proves almost entirely devoid of interest.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

A "great poet" movie, the poet in this case being Dylan Thomas, and it's utter bollocks.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

A stagy, arty, and uncompelling account of the Welsh writer and his menage-y relations.

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.