500 Days of Summer Reviews

Inventive, original and hugely relatable, (500) Days Of Summer is the perfect screen deconstruction of a relationship, for once, from the man's point of view.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Tom and Summer may not be the most emotionally stable people on the planet, and if they were my friends, I'd have little sympathy for them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

As Summer, Zooey Deschanel is an enchanting, blue-eyed mixture of nearness and distance. You can see why Tom loves her, even as she stomps on his heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It's very smooth and well done; Marc Webb clearly has a solid visual eye and natural sense of pacing.

Full Review | Original Score: A

You've seen this movie before (just usually with a fakey big-kiss ending; extra points here for the blunt honesty about breakups) but this one is just right for Right Now.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

(500) Days of Summer is as close to perfect as a movie gets. A highly subjective claim? Sure, but so are all movie reviews, and this is hardly the time to get into that argument.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Zany visuals and spirited performances makes 500 Days of Summer an entertaining chronicle of the making and breaking of a modern secular relationship.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

An endearing, well-acted film that takes a conventional premise and turns it into something wonderfully unconventional.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Sweet and cute, but capable of so much more.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Hopefully writers Neustadter and Weber have already got another project in the works.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

This is the movie The Breakup was advertised to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4.0

Gimmicky love story that's not saved by its bittersweet ending. Acting is more than just cooing with your eyes. It seemed like 500 days allright. Paul Chambers, CNN.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

The film's bruised yet clear-eyed romanticism is refreshing to find in a genre that often settles for something less than truthful or passionate.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

... it does a nice job of charting the rise and fall of a relationship with heart, soul and a recognition that it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.

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We have been trained by Hollywood to react a certain way to a certain kind of movie and 500 Days of Summer seeks to un-train us through shock therapy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Abound conventions and the occasional nugget of overwrought wit threaten, but fail, to cripple the leads' revelatory sincerity.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Una irresistible comedia romántica que desafía algunas convenciones del género, gracias a un tratamiento fresco y original, una deliciosa banda sonora y dos protagonistas perfectos.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The two leads are as quirky and likable as the movie itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

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Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

A kind of Woody Allen comedy but without the jokes. Lots of cultural signifiers to make ivy league couples on a date feel at home, but totally lacking in substance.

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