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Punch-Drunk Love (2002) Rank 4 Reviews
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Lee's Movie Info (Lee Tistaert)
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)
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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)
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)
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)
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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)
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)
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Projectionist (Sean Caszatt)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
Movie romance hasn't been this rapturous since `Moulin Rouge.' ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
Premiere Magazine (Glenn Kenny)
A movie of undeniable power and strangeness. ...read the complete Punch-Drunk Love movie review at Premiere Magazine (Glenn Kenny)
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)
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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)
Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
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)
Looking Closer (Jeffrey Overstreet)
Detroit News (Susan Stark)
d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)
Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
Palo Alto Online (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
Scott's Movie Reviews (Scott Mantz)
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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