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Movie Overview
Cast
• Zooey Deschanel
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Clark Gregg
Director
• Marc Webb
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - for sexual material and language.
Video/DVD Releases
Dec 22, 2009 (DVD)
500 Days of Summer (2009)

REVIEWS
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OFCS Rating: 77% Fresh
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3.5/5
"Flawed though it is, 500 Days Of Summer is still a fair cut above the average piece of Hollywood fare both in terms of its laugh quotient and offbeat romance."  Eye for Film  Amber Wilkinson

3.5/5
"While perhaps a tad too quirky for its own good, this is still one of the best, most insightful romantic comedies in a very long time."  Filmcritic.com  Bill Gibron

C-
"Grazes on the fields of Gen-Y trends and '80's nostalgia to fatten itself to such a degree, it would be impossible to notice the material is only a few menopausal jokes away from your average Nora Ephron film."  BrianOrndorf.com  Brian Orndorf

B-
"Joseph Gordon-Levitt is great as a hopeless romantic, and Zooey Deshanel embodies a cold-fish charmer whose mod girl styling is but a clever disguise for a person looking for a better deal."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

4/5
"This broken affair is more entertaining than most successful ones."  eFilmCritic.com  Dan Lybarger

3.5/4
"...one of the most entertaining and flat-out original romantic comedies to come around in quite some time..."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

C+
"Awkward offbeat summer to autumn romance."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

3/4
"Funny, poignant and uncommonly perceptive, growing all the more so the longer one thinks about it."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

A
"It's as close to perfect a romantic comedy as I've ever seen."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

4/4
"Probably the closest this generation has come to having their own Annie Hall."  eFilmCritic.com  Erik Childress

"The couple's fluctuations between amorous rapture and wounding are matched by the film's own seesaw of poignancy and irritation"  CinePassion  Fernando F. Croce

C+
"An experiment you have to admire for the risks it takes even while being disappointed that it doesn't quite come off."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

4/5
"A fresh and appealing romantic drama brimming with heart, creativity, and panache."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

3.5/4
"[Director] Webb treats his characters and his audience with respect. The result is something worth savoring regardless of the season in which it is seen."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

3.5/4
"exceeds its whimsical indie-film touches because it is rooted in the kinds of recognizable truths that give weight to what would otherwise be simply amusing"  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

4/5
"(500) Days of Summer knocks several romantic movie clichés on their ear, but never loses sight of heart or hope, and it never fails to make the ups and downs between Tom and Summer matter."  Redbox  James Rocchi

2/4
"a nicely played but all-too-preciously eccentric romance"  Cinema Writer  Jay Antani

7/10
"Le tout est exécuté avec un tel enthousiasme que nous ne pouvons que nous laisser emporter par cette vague on ne peut plus rafraîchissante, et surtout profondément désarmante."  Panorama  Jean-François Vandeuren

9/10
"At last, here's a movie that takes the wimpy, tortured, hopelessly-in-love boys from the other movies and tells them to grow up."  Window to the Movies  Jeffrey Chen

44/100
"Every moment of this sub-Annie Hall routine confounds not only audience expectation of a balanced feminine perspective but the very notion of romance itself."  MovieMartyr.com  Jeremy Heilman

"Parental Content Review"  Screen It!  Jim Judy

B+
"...ends on a meets cutesy note, but what comes before is a giddily original take on the sentiment that 'love is blind.'"  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

2/5
"The film seems constructed to short-circuit your attempts to invest anything in it."  Goatdog's Movies  Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

4/4
"I loved (500) Days of Summer for many reasons, but for this one the most: I felt more during this movie than I have in any other romantic comedy in years."  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

A-
"By the time we see those first, early moments of heady connection, we realize how the sweetness of those initial feelings will become almost unbearably poignant."  Beliefnet  Nell Minow

5/5
"Not only is it charming and funny, but it takes a strikingly original approach that leaves a big, stupid grin on your face"  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

B
"This is a story that most people can probably relate to, unless you are one of those lucky people never to have been on the losing end of the game of love."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

B+
"...an excellent date film aimed at those beyond the usual tweenie audience."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

4/4
"The kind of movie where telling people to see it isn't enough. You physically want to drive them to the theater so they'll be there in time for the next showing."  Charlotte Weekly  Sean O'Connell

7/10
"A whimsical, bittersweet tale of love-gone-awry"  SSG Syndicate  Susan Granger

9/10
"It is, no, not revolutionary, but miraculous and playful... the smartest film I've seen about romance in literally years."  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton
OFCS Rating: 77% Fresh
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