Silver Linings Playbook Reviews

A deft treatment of its delicate subject material and some remarkable performances that give the film both touching, raw, authentic emotion and a certain kinetic humor.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Jennifer Lawrence is the only aspect of the film that truly lives up to the trumped-up awards buzz and hype, but being a perfectly enjoyable light comedy with heaps of heart is no small feat in itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

I love the work that deNiro and Lawrence do here, but ultimately all they do is prove the old adage that you can cover up a lot of problems with the script by hiring good actors.

Full Review | Original Score: 65/100

"Silver Linings Playbook" could not be a more awkward love story. But I loved every second of it!

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Silver Linings Playbook looks like your run-of-the-mill wacky family comedy, but it's an important film and a great one that deserves to sweep the awards it's nominated for.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

Silver Linings Playbook is defined by the positive decisions that are made in the face of imperfection, desperation, and the desolate wasteland of your world in pieces.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Director David O. Russell forms a unique and incredible romance dramedy...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

There is some charm to the story, but the final act is very neat, predictable, contrived, and not up to originality of the first two.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

Director David O. Russell is a little too chipper at times - breaking a restraining order is really no joke - but he brings a breeziness to this likeable tale of two misfits trying to make it work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It may be a Hollywood comedy, but it's one that feels beautifully alive.

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On the surface Silver Linings Playbook is a raucous romantic comedy, but its real interests are superstition and delusion.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

A volatile mix of familial drama and madcap comedy, infectious optimism and razor-wire wit, it's one of the most purely enjoyable films released in the past twelve months.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Parece desistir de qualquer traço de originalidade em seu clímax, quando se entrega a todos os clichês do gênero: mal-entendidos, mocinhos obrigados a correr atrás da mocinha pela rua e, claro, o insuportável travelling circular do beijo romântico.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

I suppose the phrase 'serious romantic comedy' sounds like a paradox. But that's exactly what 'Silver Linings Playbook' is: an intelligent, edgy dark comedy with romance at its core.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

This is a rom-com dressed up as an Oscar-baiting "dramedy". It's a good rom-com thanks to it's edge... but occasionally has the bad traits of a bad rom-com.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Silver Linings Playbook puts the "fun" in "dysfunction." And sure, that sounds glib, but actually, it's a rather extraordinary achievement. Especially when you're skirting on the edges of sanity.

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A bittersweet pill that's a mixture of an endearing family drama and modern romance that's an absolute delight.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

tows the line of conventional, feel-good Hollywood rom-com, albeit dressed up in just enough art-house quirk to make it feel like something slightly radical

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A reminder that 'sanity' doesn't make your flaws any more orderly.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Silver Linings Playbook is a fine, funny film, and one that should charm viewers who haven't been tricked by all those Oscar nominations into anticipating it as some kind of world-changing work of art for the ages.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5