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OFCS Rating: 84% Fresh |
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| "...una de las más hermosas historias de amor jamás filmadas..." |
| Cinenganos |
| Alex Ramirez |
3.5/4 | "Un Redemption de Adam Sandler." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Bill Chambers |
10/10 | "A marvelous mini-masterpiece." |
| Modamag.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
| "Both Sandler and Anderson are, it turns out, acutely attuned to the infinite, painful costs of consumer culture." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
3.5/4 | "Though the movie isn't quite the marvel that Magnolia was, it does manage to sneak up on you and deliver a surprise that is both delightful and unforgettable." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
4/4 | "Why can't other filmmakers challenge, surprise, and excite us like this?" |
| Movie Boeuf |
| David N. Butterworth |
4/4 | "...Punch-Drunk Love is (and always will be) the crowning achievement within Anderson's filmography." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
A+ | "I couldn't ask any more from a mainstream romantic comedy than what I got from Punch-Drunk Love..." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
3/4 | "Has elements of sheer brilliance, others of definite intrigue, and some that are disappointingly undernourished." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
2/4 | "One could say it resembles punch-drunk love." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Ed Gonzalez |
C- | "Anderson has this uncanny ability to take good ideas that shouldn't take more than twenty minutes of screen time and stretching them out" |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Edward Havens |
| "No cumple con todas las expectativas, pero sigue siendo uno de los directores más originales y talentosos que el cine norteamericano tiene para ofrecer." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
B | "It's a lovely film, and that's something I never thought I'd say about anything Adam Sandler had touched." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
4/4 | "P.T. Anderson understands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew were possible." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
A | "A movie joyfully alive with possibility, from a filmmaker willing to take big gambles and force them to pay off, and with a star who has the courage to redefine his image." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
3.5/4 | "Who would ever think that an annoying frat boy performer such as Adam Sandler would ever appear in a sensible and refreshingly vigorous thoughtful romantic comedy?" |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
C+ | "Rather slight, with a sweet-and-sour mood that doesn't quite gel...a comparatively lightweight piece that dissipates as soon as the final credits roll." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
B+ | "Suprising, whimsical, charming (and often frustrating)." |
| Mixed Reviews |
| Gabriel Shanks |
3/4 | "Anderson has created the kind of unconventional 'romantic comedy' we might expect from him." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3/4 | "a visually gorgeous film, one that makes exquisite use of widescreen composition, bold color schemes, and evocative moments of silhouette" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
5/5 | "Seemingly bizarre teaming of Paul Thomas Anderson and Adam Sandler is a weird, slight and sideways -- yet delightful -- romantic comedy." |
| Netflix |
| James Rocchi |
4/4 | "Invigorating, surreal, and resonant with a rainbow of emotion." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
10/10 | "As a singular character study, it's perfect. It's also the year's sweetest movie." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
4/4 | "Not for a moment does the film feel safe, and its desperately flailing attempts to please us are its most endearing quality." |
| MovieMartyr.com |
| Jeremy Heilman |
5/10 | "Perfect example of a picture that most film critics will likely adore and most regular audiences will likely snore through." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
2.5/4 | "A trifle at 89 minutes with a genuine, heartfelt performance by Mr. Sandler, and not much else." |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
| "Anderson is a master of excavating the layers of life that obstruct his character's inner truth, but nothing in his first three films prepared us for "Punch Drunk Love," a sweet, frequently erratic drama filled with many simple comic moments." |
| Light Views |
| John Larsen |
9/10 | "It's rare for a mainstream picture to be this brashly poetic, and Anderson is completely unapologetic about it." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
4/4 | "Paul Thomas Anderson used Sandler for a very specific purpose -to convey a sense of tough-luck awkwardness and smile-masking-frown frustration, and it worked perfectly." |
| Bangitout.com |
| Jordan Hiller |
3/4 | "'No es la mejor película de P.T. Anderson, pero si es una mucho mejor opción que la mayoría de las que abundan en la cartelera'" |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
4/5 | "Sandler was really good, and I'd be hard pressed to name another actor who'd have his qualities and could have done a better job." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
4/4 | "Bursting with light, sound and color. Literally!" |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
C | "Wow. I have not been this disappointed by a movie in a long time." |
| Countingdown.com |
| Larry Carroll |
B | ""Punch-Drunk Love" is a little like a chocolate milk moustache..." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
3/4 | "I admire the film on many levels, particularly one: the performance of its leading man (of all people), Adam Sandler." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
4/4 | "Surreal, funny, and stylish, Punch-Drunk Love is one of the best movies of 2002" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "As a portrait of repression, it’s downright poignant, and though I’ve always thought Adam Sandler was pretty pathetic, now I mean it in the good, moving way." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
4/5 | "Anderson is simply punch-drunk on the possibilities of cinema, and sophisticated film lovers will be more than willing to go wherever he goes -- yes, even to an Adam Sandler movie." |
| Film Threat |
| Michael Dequina |
4/5 | "[A] strange and wonderful synthesis of two radically different styles." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
4/5 | "Audiences are likely to feel a bit punch drunk themselves as they try to make sense of this odd romantic journey with its offbeat dualities, combining extremes of chaos and harmony and love and anger." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
4/5 | "Sandler pode até não se revelar um ator versátil, já que repete o mesmo tipo de seus trabalhos anteriores, mas dificilmente algum outro intérprete poderia preencher este filme como ele." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
4/5 | "Subtle and more than a little offbeat, this is the kind of movie the Farrellys might make if they (a) made intelligent films and (b) weren't obsessed with gross-out humor." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
3/5 | "It's clear by now that whatever characterization skill Anderson showed in his lean, mean debut, 1997's Hard Eight, was a fluke." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
A | "...an angry, raw, shockingly beautiful romantic comedy that tests the limits of our every expectation." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B | "The unexplored story opportunities of “Punch-Drunk Love” may have worked against the maker’s minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writer/director Anderson." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
A | "The sheer unpredictability of Love intoxicates you while you watch it, leaving you lightheaded, woozy." |
| Eclipse Magazine |
| Sean O'Connell |
| "If you see one Adam Sandler movie in your life, Punch-Drunk Love would be the one to see. Which is not to say the movie is without problems or off-putting elements, or even that I'm entirely sure what it's about." |
| Decent Films Guide |
| Steven D. Greydanus |
8/10 | "Could this be the year that Adam Sandler gets an Oscar nomination?" |
| www.susangranger.com |
| Susan Granger |
4/4 | "A carefully structured scream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but unquestionably alive." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
| "Click here to see review" |
| Wolf Entertainment Guide |
| William Wolf |
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OFCS Rating: 84% Fresh |
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