Punch-Drunk Love Critic Reviews

Anderson orchestrates a comic romance like no other. The effect is intoxicating. Sandler and the movie will knock you for a loop.Read the full review

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 question becomes incredibly compelling.Read the full review

Entirely unpredictable and marked by audacious strokes of directorial bravado.Read the full review

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 full review

It's a honey of a performance: controlled, achingly human, and funny in the deepest ways.Read the full review

Despite its title, Punch-Drunk Love is never heavy-handed. The jabs it employs are short, carefully placed and dead-center.Read the full review

The film is exhilarating to watch because Sandler, liberated from the constraints of formula, reveals unexpected depths as an actor.Read the full review

Deeply rich and strange new romantic comedy.Read the full review

Poetry is perhaps the best way to think about Mr. Anderson's suave, exuberant balance of free-form inspiration and formal control.Read the full review