Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting characters into situations in which they feel driven to humiliate themselves. Which is why we love them, especially when it's all in the name of love. He is the Bard of Embarrassment.
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…
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 …
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…
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).
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…
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…
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.
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