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Punch-Drunk Love

2002

Paul Thomas Anderson

Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzmán ...

6.5

21,598

Romance. Drama. Comedy Barry Egan is a socially impaired owner of a small novelty business, who is dominated by seven sisters and is unlikely to find love unless it finds him. When a mysterious woman comes into his life his emotions go haywire, fluctuating between uncontrollable rage, lust and self-doubt.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Anderson orchestrates a comic romance like no other. The effect is intoxicating. Sandler and the movie will knock you for a loop. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Sandler, liberated from the constraints of formula, reveals unexpected depths as an actor (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Poetry is perhaps the best way to think about Mr. Anderson's suave, exuberant balance of free-form inspiration and formal control."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"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"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This is certainly a distinctive picture, composed in a startling, even riveting idiom by a director with style. But it is almost entirely depthless: a trompe-l'oeil of elusive ideas and replicant emotions"	NEU
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"an anti-Adam Sandler movie. It's very cute, very weird and madly diverting (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Sandwiched between the epic achievements of 'Magnolia' and 'There Will Be Blood', 'Punch-Drunk Love' may seem like a minor work at first glance, but it's just as formally daring and adventurous"	POS

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