Silver Linings Playbook Reviews
NECN
A thoroughly annoying and staggeringly laughless quirkfest featuring the most alarmingly miscast role of 2012.
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| Original Score: D+
Slant Magazine
When one stops to consider how irksomely on the nose so much of this is, the qualities which intend to most readily ingratiate the film with us begin to appear perceptibly disingenuous and false.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Ultra Culture
Makes the life of a film critic that little bit easier by setting 90% of the drama, action and dialogue literally in the middle of the road.
Boxoffice Magazine
Most of the way, the film's deficiencies are survivable if only for Jennifer Lawrence and some fleeting moments of emotional clarity and bracing conflict.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Daily Telegraph
Might at first look like proper cinema red in tooth and claw, but underneath it's a bundle of matted fleece and bleating.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticManic as it might be stylistically, emotionally Silver Linings Playbook maintains too even of a keel.
EntertainmentTell
What starts off as a serious examination of mental illness turns into an entirely different movie, one with nearly the exact same third act as "High School Musical."
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| Original Score: 2/5
ColeSmithey.com
"Silver Linings Playbook" is a Hollywood romantic comedy made to mask the horrific downside of mental illness while still giving the audience a little sense of superiority as they walk out of the cinema.
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| Original Score: C
Cinema em Cena
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Cinemania
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.
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| Original Score: 65/100
It's a strain to care about Pat, and it's impossible to believe in his world.
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| Original Score: 2/4
It's impossible to shake the sense that what felt thrillingly, cohesively alive in the director's earlier movies plays here with more laurel-resting creakiness than go-for-broke verve.
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| Original Score: 3/5
New England Movies Weekly
With a truly awkward script and no chemistry between the leads this Thanksgiving arrival is a turkey.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)
A man's bi-polar disorder is supposed to give license to implausible and contrived histrionics.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Pretty much a miscalculation from beginning to end.
There's nothing wrong with the overrated Jennifer Lawrence that some serious acting lessons couldn't improve. The rest of the actors are pretty much on their own.
Salt Lake Tribune
Lawrence's bold performance and her fearlessly sexual character are more than Russell knows how to harness.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
One Guy's Opinion
While one respects the film for trying to juggle disparate tones, it never manages to find the proper balance.
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| Original Score: C
Daily Star
Silver Linings Playbook is a rare thing indeed - a romantic comedy that completely delivers on both sides of the equation.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Flix Capacitor
In line with Russell's early work, it's rough-edged and has the look of an indie movie, but like his last picture, The Fighter, it functions as a winsome crowd-pleaser with solid Oscar potential.
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| Original Score: 4/5
