500 Days of Summer (2009)
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Reviews Counted:185
Fresh:161
Rotten:24
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: A clever, offbeat romantic comedy, 500 Days of Summer is refreshingly honest and utterly charming.
Theatrical Release:02-09-2009
Synopsis: Fans of HIGH FIDELITY and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND will be charmed by this quirky film that sheds a linear plot in favor of a memory-driven look at a failed romance. Joseph... [More]
Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clark Gregg, Minka Kelly
Director: Marc Webb
Reviews for 500 Days of Summer
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 2/5 |
Too timid to be truly cynical about love and too eager for box-office success to try to be a really new kind of romantic comedy, the film fails the ultimate romantic-comedy test: not only does it lack enough laughs, but you’re never emotionally involved. Full Review |
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Highly recommended either to enjoy as a couple or wallow in alone. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Director Marc Webb's debut feature is as far from a Sandra Bullock or Hugh Grant vehicle as you can imagine. What better reason to go see it? From start to end his subtle movie feather-teases your funny spots: it amazes, refreshes and it delights. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Perfectly played, simultaneously serious and light, endlessly inventive, this is a strong contender for the most original date movie of the year. (Terrific) stuff. Full Review |
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4/5 |
If it just misses being this generation’s ‘Annie Hall’, it’s still deliciously refreshing, sweet and fizzy. A sherbet dip of a movie. Full Review |
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3/5 |
A new take on romantic comedy that doesn't quite live up to its ambitions. Full Review |
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3/5 |
It is hardly the freshest romantic comedy of the past 20 years. Taking the best bits from other movies and rearranging them in a non-linear sequence does not make for an original film. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Despite clever moments and Hornbyesque touches of melancholy, it's let down by sitcom cliches, and by being weirdly incurious about the inner life of its female lead. Full Review |
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3/5 |
An ideal version of this film would be painful and playful, and a good deal less cluttered. But the one we get certainly has delightful moments. After any exposure to this year’s unfailingly smelly mainstream romcoms, it’s a breeze. Full Review |
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4/5 |
(500) Days of Summer is a great film – a step in genre and gender development that will be referenced for years to come. And aside from all that, it’s really good fun. Full Review |
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4/5 |
An endorphin rush of a movie, which even in its saddest moments is uplifting funny. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A clever, refreshing, non-formulaic antidote to your average, bog-standard Hollywood romcom.
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3/5 |
Unabashedly indie heartstring-yanker 500 Days of Summer- while mercifully rejecting the rom-com template - is less than the sum of its well-played parts. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A playful, witty, disordered telling of a fractured romance. Bringing fresh zing to a genre prone to predictability, Webb crafts a (not-in-) love story about feeling bad that’s infectiously good. Full Review |
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5/5 |
There is more cinematic joy in five minutes of (500) Days of Summer than there is in a packed weekend of mainstream romance movies. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A sharp spin on the usual rom-com formulae, this is funny, sensitive and challenges the genre’s gender conventions. Full Review |
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4/5 |
By a wide margin the outstanding romantic comedy of 2009. Full Review |
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4/5 |
An energetic, enjoyable affair with plenty to say about unrequited love. Full Review |
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5/5 |
A modern romance for grown-ups... a sweet-natured, funny, deeply-romantic tale that brims with energy and is blessed with top-notch performances. Full Review |
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3/5 |
(500) Days of Summer is an above average rom-com that dares to venture towards an appalling conclusion. Full Review |
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