Punch-Drunk Love Critic Reviews
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Based upon 15 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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It's a honey of a performance: controlled, achingly human, and funny in the deepest ways.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
Charming and outlandish by turns, this misfit love story of disconnected people trying to find one another in an antagonistic world is a comedy of discomfort and rage that turns unexpectedly sweet and pure.Read the full review
Quirky and stylish, but not in a manner that comes across as overly artsy or pretentious.Read the full review
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
Sweet-natured, meticulously observed love story.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
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
It's funny, too, though marked by an uneasy humor that's usually difficult to achieve. Anderson handles it with expert ease: At this point in his career, he moves the camera like a skilled dance partner, investing the smallest gesture with significance.Read the full review
