500 Days of Summer Reviews

For all its ambitiousness, (500) Days of Summer feels synthetic and derivative, a movie that's popping with perceptions while searching for a style.

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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 couple's fluctuations between amorous rapture and wounding are matched by the film's own seesaw of poignancy and irritation

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The independent film 500 Days of Summer is as refreshing as hot air. It's as formulaic and calculating as the Hallmark greeting cards to which it feigns superiority.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.0/5

Watching (500) Days of Summer feels like being forced to sit still while someone you can't stand tries very hard to charm you.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

The Fox Searchlight house style perfected and taken to the brink of self-parody.

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500 Days of Summer never quite convinces, despite the charm of the leads. This is wannabe indie, and these two Hollywood names are too 'big' to play beautiful nobodies navigating a heart-wrenching misunderstanding.

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The film bounces between the relationship's winning uplslope and its mopey descent, and the intercutting eventually kills the momentum, even though the film's rousing final minute reclaims some of the early spunk.

Full Review | Original Score: 51/100

Grazes on the fields of Gen-Y trends and '80's nostalgia to fatten itself to such a degree, it would be impossible to notice the material is only a few menopausal jokes away from your average Nora Ephron film.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Sometimes love is a battlefield; but in (500) Days of Summer it's a pillow fight in which the Posturepedic puffballs have more personality than the protagonists.

| Original Score: 2/4

I've read somewhere that (500) Days of Summer is being called the Annie Hall de nos jours; that's a slur on a great movie, not to say on nos jours.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Every moment of this sub-Annie Hall routine confounds not only audience expectation of a balanced feminine perspective but the very notion of romance itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 44/100

Awkward offbeat summer to autumn romance.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

The film revels in the hip witticisms that swim mostly inside a writer's head but never come forth in the real world with the timing and execution seen here.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

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

I guess maybe I'm not Tom but Summer. I like your looks, and heaven knows I appreciate the energy you put into wooing me, but I don't want us to be a couple.

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I feel for Tom, I commiserate with him for his tragedy but, for me, 300 days of Summer would have been more than sufficient.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The film seems constructed to short-circuit your attempts to invest anything in it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The movie keeps leaning toward some awful truths, only to sheepishly retreat into the safe comedy of fakey shopworn devices.

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a nicely played but all-too-preciously eccentric romance

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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