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Edmond (2006) Rank 5 Reviews
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Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Mamet is a writer who turns off some audiences, and almost everything that might bother them is in Edmond: foul language, raging machismo, violence and seemingly bigoted tirades. But almost everything audiences like about him is there too: candor, ...read the complete Edmond movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Greenwich Village Gazette (Eric Lurio)
David
Mamet is about words. Sure there are visuals in the films he's
done, and they're important, but what makes Mamet great is his
language. Nobody in the entire world writes profanity ...read the complete Edmond movie review at Greenwich Village Gazette (Eric Lurio)
Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)
Although the 1990s were unkind to horror maestro Stuart Gordon, this decade has seen the director quietly return to form with a series of lean, mean, finely crafted films that show the fierce sensibility behind the cult hit Re-Animator still at work. ...read the complete Edmond movie review at Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
The title character of Edmond starts out a discontent man in a comfortable world, and ends up finding contentment in what your average upper-class suit would deem a nightmare. David Mamet's adaptation of his 1982 episodic stage play, about a man's ...read the complete Edmond movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
The Onion A.V. Club
Film Threat (Matthew Sorrento)
While the episodic script feels fragmented, Macy’s consistency unifies Edmond’s journey. ...read the complete Edmond movie review at Film Threat (Matthew Sorrento)
Salon.com (Andrew O'Hehir)
It's hilarious, and contains some of Mamet's best dialogue. And that somehow, by making a racist, murderous, Everycreep his protagonist, Mamet is able to produce some of his most penetrating psychological and spiritual insights. ...read the complete Edmond movie review at Salon.com (Andrew O'Hehir)
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Boston Globe (Wesley Morris)
In Mamet's understanding, straight white maleness is the most powerful weapon such men have. It can also be illusory, which is why the last scenes of Edmond are so touching. ...read the complete Edmond movie review at Boston Globe (Wesley Morris)
Movie City News (David Poland)
Edmond is a guy who takes the social selfishness of the moment - has it ever been different and have we ever been as indulgent? - to its horrifyingly logical end. What does Edmond want? He just wants what most people want. To be satisfied, to feel safe, ...read the complete Edmond movie review at Movie City News (David Poland)
Cinema Blend (Edward Darell)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Wolf Entertainment Guide (William Wolf)
Entertainment Insiders (Eric Lurio)
The New York Times (Stephen Holden)
Mr. Macy, a master at playing sticks of human dynamite in mild-mannered camouflage, gives the nerviest screen performance of his career. ...read the complete Edmond movie review at The New York Times (Stephen Holden)
Reel.com (Gary Goldstein)
PopMatters (Jesse Hicks)
Entertainment Weekly
Dating from the 1982 Off Broadway stage, and showing its proscenium origins in Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon's vague urban freshening, Edmond posits that the fury of a sexist, racist psychopath lies just beneath the surface of even the mildest ...read the complete Edmond movie review at Entertainment Weekly
eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
Political Film Society
New York Post (Kyle Smith)
It may be too bleak for most. ...read the complete Edmond movie review at New York Post (Kyle Smith)
TV Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Written in the aftermath of a bitter divorce, Mamet's paranoid rant -- an explosion of middle-aged, white-collar, white-men's rage at losing ground to everyone, from women, hustlers, African Americans and homosexuals to the younger generation nipping at ...read the complete Edmond movie review at TV Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Reel.com
While, over time, there's been almost a knee-jerk need to transfer many of Mamet's plays to film, very few of them have really warranted the effort. Though About Last Night (based on the one-act Sexual Perversity in Chicago ) and Glengarry Glen Ross ...read the complete Edmond movie review at Reel.com
ReelTalk (Donald Levit)
The Nick Schager Film Project
Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
CineFile : il Cinema in Rete (Tommaso Tocci)
Slant Magazine
Following the structure of the medieval morality play of an Everyman character drifting through dark vignettes on the road to salvation, screenwriter David Mamet adapts his one-time confrontational play Edmond to the screen. Businessman Edmond (William H. ...read the complete Edmond movie review at Slant Magazine
The Village Voice (Michael Atkinson)
filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin)
There's a slight chance, very slight, that David Mamet is a genius. As a writer, his blunt, edgy, and constantly interrupted dialogue has earned him a lot of weight, so much so that he is considered one of the more important playwrights of the last 25 ...read the complete Edmond movie review at filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin)
Los Angeles Times (Gene Seymour)
Edmond does, on the surface, seem very much a contemporary tale of urban terror. Yet despite the best efforts of all concerned, what seemed explosive and provocative two decades ago now comes across as schematic and artificial. ...read the complete Edmond movie review at Los Angeles Times (Gene Seymour)
Variety (Scott Foundas)
Despite agreeably short running time and committed performances, Edmond is rendered inert by its stagy atmosphere and failure to fully mine the depths of its protagonist's complex psyche. ...read the complete Edmond movie review at Variety (Scott Foundas)
The Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)
For hard-core David Mamet fans only...Edmond serves to remind you how artificial the dialogue and dramaturgy truly was in early Mamet. ...read the complete Edmond movie review at The Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)
Chicago Reader (Staff (Not credited))
Disappointing adaptation of Mamet's 1982 drama. ...read the complete Edmond movie review at Chicago Reader (Staff (Not credited))
The New Republic (Stanley Kauffmann)
What the role needs, and what Macy cannot quite provide, is the sense not of a robot but of a potent man who has been imprisoned by rote. Remember Jack Nicholson in "About ...read the complete Edmond movie review at The New Republic (Stanley Kauffmann)
New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
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