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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: Manages to be both heartbreaking and happy, while managing to look like nothing you've ever seen before. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: [Sandler] plays Barry just as he would any of the comic dolts who've made him rich but this time all the panicky sadness is out where we can see it. It's a honey of a performance: controlled, achingly human, and funny in the deepest ways. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Director Paul Thomas Anderson hasn't reinvented Sandler; he's just allowed those of us who tired very quickly of his innocent naif shtick to see how effectively it can be put in the service of something to care about. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Punch-Drunk Love knows how to reap epic delight from the most precious of details. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This movie's like no other movie yet it's really interesting. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: It's wacky. It's unpredictable. It's sure to give pause to Sandler fans and, smaller in number but every bit as dedicated, to Watson admirers too. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A happy nightmare of silly-smart movie comedy that defies category -- and challenges expectations involving Sandler and his pictures. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: What Mr. Anderson wants to do is recapture, without nostalgia, the giddiness and sweep of old movies, and his mastery of the emotional machinery of the medium is breathtaking. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A weirdly sweet little love story set in waltz time and filmed as a study in contrast: light and dark, order and chaos, delicate music and ear-bending noise. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It is quite a vision. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: What Anderson and his equally unlikely stars, Adam Sandler and Emily Watson, have managed is to stretch the boundaries of the romantic comedy genre to their extreme outer limits. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: [Anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lick of sense. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Everything about Punch-Drunk Love works in a Being John Malkovich sort of way save one. Sandler. When your star doesn't work, it's hard to get us to buy into the rest of a movie as unusual as this. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: 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. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: No film this year has offered quite the cerebral tickle, weird invention and slaphappy gusto as Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Even if he turns around and makes Mr. Deeds 2, [Sandler] has shown that his range goes beyond mindless fisticuffs and easy laughs. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: For all the incidental pleasures and anxious romanticism, Punch-Drunk Love still feels skimpy, if not hollow. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: A startling achievement, but its lack of psychological dimension prevents it from making much human contact with us. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: It is already apparent that Punch-Drunk Love will not be everyone's cup of tea, but nonetheless Mr. Anderson has found a way to fashion a passionate romance out of the materials of postmodern chaos. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Anderson has created the kind of unconventional 'romantic comedy' we might expect from him. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The film is exhilarating to watch because Sandler, liberated from the constraints of formula, reveals unexpected depths as an actor. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: By 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. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Sandler is quite winning, but he doesn't stretch so much as deepen the same character he always plays. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: 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. Read more
Derek Adams, Time Out: The film looks good and has its funny moments, but too often one senses Anderson straining to impress... Read more
Mike D'Angelo, Time Out: The comedy here emerges not from personality but from aesthetics: the precise framing, the bravura camera movements, Jon Brion's insistently percussive score, Sandler's ridiculous blue suit. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: Despite its title, Punch-Drunk Love is never heavy-handed. The jabs it employs are short, carefully placed and dead-center. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: As elegantly crafted as it often is, Anderson's movie is essentially a one-trick pony that, hampered by an undeveloped script, ultimately pulls up lame. Read more