Silver Linings Playbook Reviews
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
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.
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| Original Score: B+
TheMovieReport.com
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Entertainment Spectrum
"Silver Linings Playbook" could not be a more awkward love story. But I loved every second of it!
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| Original Score: 5/5
Concrete Playground
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.
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| Original Score: 10/10
2UE That Movie Show
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.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Cinema Crazed
Director David O. Russell forms a unique and incredible romance dramedy...
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| Original Score: 4/4
Mark Leeper's Reviews
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.
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| Original Score: 6/10
3AW
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
FILMINK (Australia)
It may be a Hollywood comedy, but it's one that feels beautifully alive.
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
On the surface Silver Linings Playbook is a raucous romantic comedy, but its real interests are superstition and delusion.
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| Original Score: B+
Moviedex
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.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
The Standard
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Vine
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.
The Popcorn Junkie
A bittersweet pill that's a mixture of an endearing family drama and modern romance that's an absolute delight.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Q Network Film Desk
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
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| Original Score: 3/4
Flicks.co.nz
A reminder that 'sanity' doesn't make your flaws any more orderly.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Quickflix
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
The Sun Herald
David O. Russell's latest buzz film straddles a fine line between farce and kitchen-sink drama before settling into a groove that gets under one's skin.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Urban Cinefile
It starts to fray about halfway through as it shifts into a more conventional mode, taking on the usual trappings of the genre and making its way to a predictable resolution
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