Soggy ending ... The Edge of Love
The critics reckon John Maybury's wartime romance about poet Dylan Thomas and his dual lovers is a good-looking if rather confused romp that falls off dramatically in its second half.
"Maybury depends too much on the beauty of his two leading ladies to captivate us, and not their characters," reckons Cosmo Landesman of the Sunday Times, reserving a particularly barbed comment for Keira Knightley, who stars opposite Matthew Rhys and Sienna Miller. "She has such a cold and conceited screen persona, with that spooky Bambi-meets-Tony Blair smile," he adds.
Variety's Leslie Felperin says the film is "tonally all over the map, veering between artsy stylization and hum-drum, sometimes almost twee melodrama", while Empire's Olly Richards comments: "The cast is strong and the first act has an intriguingly dreamy quality, but it gives way to a soggy ending."
Finally our own Peter Bradshaw writes: "It is an exasperatingly unfocused and underpowered movie that, like Churchill's famous themeless pudding, is unsure what it is supposed to be about."
Did you catch The Edge of Love at the weekend? Did it find a place in your heart?
