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Punch-Drunk Love (2002) Rank 4 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Punch-Drunk Love (2002) a score of 2.9859 out of 4
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Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Invigorating, surreal, and resonant with a rainbow of emotion. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
With its feverish, percussive soundtrack and bravura cinematography, is like a bolt from the blue, chock-full of unexpected delight. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Anderson orchestrates a comic romance like no other. The effect is intoxicating. Sandler and the movie will knock you for a loop. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Washington Post (Desson Thomson)Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Through this miasma of pain and suffering, love may not flicker more strongly than a dim lamp. But it's the only beacon to consider. Can Barry find his? Thanks to Anderson's assured picture, a symphony of cinematic textures, that disarmingly simple ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Orlando Sentinel (Jay Boyar)Orlando Sentinel (Jay Boyar)
Easily one of the best and most exciting movies of the year. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Jay Boyar)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
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. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)
Even if he turns around and makes Mr. Deeds 2 , [Sandler] has shown that his range goes beyond mindless fisticuffs and easy laughs. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Anderson orchestrates a comic romance like no other. The effect is intoxicating. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for efilmcritic.com (Collin Souter)efilmcritic.com (Collin Souter)
This is not your stupid fratboy's Adam Sandler. This is Romantic Comedy done right for a change and is one of the year's very best films. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at efilmcritic.com (Collin Souter)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Netflix (James Rocchi)Netflix (James Rocchi)
Seemingly bizarre teaming of Paul Thomas Anderson and Adam Sandler is a weird, slight and sideways -- yet delightful -- romantic comedy. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Netflix (James Rocchi)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
One of the strangest and most beguiling romantic comedies ever made. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (Jonathan R. Perry)Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (Jonathan R. Perry)
Paul Thomas Anderson's surreal, frightening, self-indulgent masterpiece. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (Jonathan R. Perry)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)
Manages to be both heartbreaking and happy, while managing to look like nothing you've ever seen before. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) (Danny Minton)KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) (Danny Minton)
The ferocity and passion behind the words coming out Sandler’s mouth gave me the chills. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) (Danny Minton)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Premiere Magazine (Glenn Kenny)Premiere Magazine (Glenn Kenny)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
If all it did was return that rarest of commodities to the movies -- the element of genuinely wanting to know what's going to happen next -- Punch-Drunk Love would be worth your time. It just happens that it does that %u2013 and a good deal more. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
"I couldn't ask any more from a mainstream romantic comedy than what I got from Punch-Drunk Love..." ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Eclipse Magazine (Sean O'Connell)Eclipse Magazine (Sean O'Connell)
The sheer unpredictability of Love intoxicates you while you watch it, leaving you lightheaded, woozy. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Eclipse Magazine (Sean O'Connell)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 3.64 out of 4 stars for Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
Anderson delivers a satisfyingly quirky, cinematically masterful valentine that contains more seeds of truth about the human heart than a hundred big fat Greek comedies. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Salon.com (Charles Taylor)Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
Something we haven't seen before: a manic-depressive romantic comedy that aspires to the soul of a musical. It's a new-fashioned love song. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Slate (David Edelstein)Slate (David Edelstein)
I found it exquisite. In part I responded out of sheer amazement: I've never seen anything like the sequences in which Sandler, in his boxy, sea-blue suit, charges around his warehouse to the rhythm of Brion's harsh drums. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Slate (David Edelstein)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Variety (Todd McCarthy)Variety (Todd McCarthy)
Entirely unpredictable and marked by audacious strokes of directorial bravado. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Variety (Todd McCarthy)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
The film is exhilarating to watch because Sandler, liberated from the constraints of formula, reveals unexpected depths as an actor. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for USA Today (Mike Clark)USA Today (Mike Clark)
Despite its title, Punch-Drunk Love is never heavy-handed. The jabs it employs are short, carefully placed and dead-center. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at USA Today (Mike Clark)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for Boston Globe (Ty Burr)Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
It's a honey of a performance: controlled, achingly human, and funny in the deepest ways. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
It's a small victory, but Punch-Drunk Love knows how to reap epic delight from the most precious of details. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
Whether Adam Sandler can actually act is not actually answered in Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love. But he's great in it. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
An Adam Sandler movie with class, and if that sounds like an oxymoron, so be it. The movie is a happy nightmare of silly-smart movie comedy that defies category - and challenges expectations involving Sandler and his pictures. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Liam Lacey)The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Liam Lacey)
No film this year has offered quite the cerebral tickle, weird invention and slaphappy gusto. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Liam Lacey)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
There is a new Adam Sandler on view in "Punch-Drunk Love"--angry, sad, desperate. In voice and mannerisms he is the same childlike, love-starved Adam Sandler we've seen in a series of dim comedies, but this film, by seeing him in a new light, encourages u ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Journal News (Westchester, NY) (Marshall Fine)Journal News (Westchester, NY) (Marshall Fine)
Working with a real writer in Anderson, Sandler turns his familiar man-child demeanor to advantage. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Journal News (Westchester, NY) (Marshall Fine)
 
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