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10/13/02
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
141 - 160 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
A sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and director that leaves scant place for the viewer.
10/12/02
Working with a real writer in Anderson, Sandler turns his familiar man-child demeanor to advantage.
10/12/02
A carefully structured scream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but unquestionably alive.
10/12/02
It's odd, interesting, and proves that love does conquer all...literally.
10/11/02
With this, not only does the former frat clown become an actor to watch, Anderson confirms his reputation as one of America's and the world's preeminent moviemakers.
10/11/02
For all the incidental pleasures and anxious romanticism, Punch-Drunk Love still feels skimpy, if not hollow.
10/11/02
At its best, the film proves that irrepressibly smart Anderson and insistently dumb Sandler were a good match from the start.
10/11/02
The scenario is so intriguing and the unfolding of the story so magical, that Punch-Drunk Love is a giddy delight.
10/11/02
Anderson's work does have it's charm, and he can and does get brilliant performances out of those one would never expect.
10/11/02
Rather slight, with a sweet-and-sour mood that doesn't quite gel...a comparatively lightweight piece that dissipates as soon as the final credits roll.
10/11/02
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10/11/02
Top CriticBy turns irritating, strange, and finally entrancing, Punch-Drunk Love is something we haven't seen before: a manic-depressive romantic comedy that aspires to the soul of a musical.
10/11/02
Peculiar little gem of a movie.
10/11/02
No film this year has offered quite the cerebral tickle, weird invention and slaphappy gusto as Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love.
10/11/02
It's a supposed romantic comedy with few laughs and no romance, a musical comedy without the song and dance.
10/11/02
You may be captivated, as I was, by its moods, and by its subtly transformed star, and still wonder why Paul Thomas Anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which Adam Sandler will probably ever appear.
10/11/02
In the end, Punch-Drunk Love leaves us dangling a little too much to be considered a total knockout.
10/11/02
Top CriticThe kind of brain fart a young and creatively impotent hothead thinks up when what he really wants to do isn’t coming to him.
10/11/02
We're going to go out on a limb and say that Punch-Drunk Love will probably be the best movie ever to star Adam Sandler.
10/10/02
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