Postcards from the Edge 1990

Vincent Canby, New York Times: ''Postcards From the Edge'' is a vehicle, but it's a custom-built Rolls. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: There's not much depth here, but Nichols does a fine job with the surface effects, and the wisecracks keep coming. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: For the first time in years, [Streep] lives a role instead of ''acting'' it - and in doing so, she becomes more of an actress than ever. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: "Postcards from the Edge" contains too much good writing and too many good performances to be a failure, but its heart is not in the right place. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: In this era of postverbal cinema, Postcards proves that movie dialogue can still carry the sting, heft and meaning of the finest old romantic comedy. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Fisher's intelligence and humour turn what might have been movie brat indulgence into something much sharper and involving. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Packs a fair amount of emotional wallop in its dark-hued comic take on a chemically dependent Hollywood mother and daughter. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Streep gives the most fully articulated comic performance of her career, the one she's always hinted at and made us hope for. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: For all the jagged, witty chatter -- and Streep and MacLaine do their tragicomic damnedest with it -- "Postcard" provides the most rudimentary and jury-rigged of outcomes. Read more