Paul Thomas Anderson is the real star of this semi-Sandler-saga.
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10/18/02
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
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Reviews Counted:180
Fresh:142
Rotten:38
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Punch-Drunk Love is weird and delightfully funny, even though Sandler essentially plays the same character he has always played in all his movies.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Paul Thomas Anderson follows 1999's MAGNOLIA with the intensely compelling character study PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE. Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) is a quiet, shy, socially awkward man with an office in an... [More]
Starring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzman
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Reviews for Punch-Drunk Love
121 - 140 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Perfect example of a picture that most film critics will likely adore and most regular audiences will likely snore through.
10/18/02
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10/18/02
This is one bizarre movie, but I like it anyway.
10/18/02
Movie romance hasn't been this rapturous since `Moulin Rouge.'
10/18/02
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.
10/18/02
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.
10/17/02
Dingbat love has never been as oddly appealing.
10/17/02
The 'opposites attract' chemistry of American funnyman Adam Sandler and British actress Emily Watson manages to blur the idiosyncrasies of a script that doesn't tote a lot of weight in Paul Thomas Anderson's darkly comic romance.
10/17/02
Even if he turns around and makes Mr. Deeds 2, [Sandler] has shown that his range goes beyond mindless fisticuffs and easy laughs.
10/17/02
In this movie, you'll see Sandler like you've never seen him.
10/17/02
Sandler plays a lovable loser in a romantic comedy that questions what could make a loser lovable.
10/17/02
Manages to be both heartbreaking and happy, while managing to look like nothing you've ever seen before.
10/17/02
One of the strangest and most beguiling romantic comedies ever made.
10/17/02
The lasting value of the movie, the element that confirms Anderson as the most provocative and excitingly aggravating of young American filmmakers, is the way it clambers inside you and punches away at the walls of whatever box you live in.
10/17/02
A happy nightmare of silly-smart movie comedy that defies category -- and challenges expectations involving Sandler and his pictures.
10/17/02
Invigorating, surreal, and resonant with a rainbow of emotion.
10/17/02
A cockamamie tone poem pitched between swoony lyricism and violent catastrophe... the most aggressively nerve-wracking and neurotic romantic comedy in cinema history.
10/15/02
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.
10/15/02
A crooked nose character comedy full of idiosyncrasies, yet I’m not sure if P.T. Anderson’s methods always align with his intent. The result lurches and drags.
10/14/02
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