| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"...a melancholy movie with a happy ending." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...(Adam) Sandler reveals depths and tones we may have suspected but couldn't bring into focus." more... |
A- |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"...an eccentric, highly charged film..." more... |
A- |
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk |
"...funny, romantic and suffused with compassion." more... |
A |
| E! Online |
"...leaves us dangling..." more... |
B- |
filmcritic.com
Rachel Gordon |
"...a cluttered mess." more... |
C+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen |
"...a terrific Adam Sandler lead performance..." more... |
A |
indieWIRE
Peter Brunette |
"...a major disappointment." more... |
D+ |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"Spare yourself." more... |
C- |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
"No mere plot summary can do justice to the wild, sweet pleasures of Punch-Drunk Love..." more... |
A- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...unapologetically offbeat..." more... |
B |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...Sandler will shock a lot of people with the ferocity and feeling of his performance..." more... |
B+ |
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer |
"...a sweet-natured, meticulously observed love story." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak |
"Sandler and Watson...make this punchy romantic comedy more engaging than it should be." more... |
B- |
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez |
"...a messy work-in-progress passing itself off as the finished product." more... |
C |
USA Today
Mike Clark |
"...an almost perfectly realized small-scale black comedy..." more... |
A- |
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