Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the superhero's life: This is how talented people make movies for 14-year-olds while retaining their self-respect.
Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster. - David Edelstein
Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster.
- David Edelstein
My reaction to 'Sin City' is easily stated. I loved it. Or, to put it another way, I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I loved every gorgeous sick di… - David Edelstein
My reaction to 'Sin City' is easily stated. I loved it. Or, to put it another way, I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I loved every gorgeous sick di…
My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international aut… - David Edelstein
My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international aut…
A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived). - David Edelstein
A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).
Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting characters into sit… - David Edelstein
Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting characters into sit…
If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's just so very bad. You can have a … - David Edelstein
If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's just so very bad. You can have a …
What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by increasing his heart rate he'll trans… - David Edelstein
What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by increasing his heart rate he'll trans…
I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but ar… - David Edelstein
I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but ar…
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners. - David Edelstein
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion