Silver Linings Playbook
Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: November 16, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 45 Critic Reviews
Positive:
36
Mixed:
8
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 25, 2012
Likable, watchable and has a nice supporting turn from Robert De Niro; I'm not sure I wouldn't rather watch this again than the macho acting in Russell's boxing drama "The Fighter." Read full review
60
EmpireDamon WiseNov 19, 2012
Jennifer Lawrence is the standout in a tonally uneven, eccentric romantic dramedy that fuses "The Fisher King" with "Romy And Michele's High School Reunion." Read full review
60
Village VoiceKarina LongworthNov 13, 2012
Manic as it might be stylistically, emotionally Silver Linings Playbook maintains too even of a keel. It's a film about the alienated that makes sure to alienate no one, a movie depicting wild mood extremes that never rises or falls above a dull hum of diversion, never exploding into riotous comedy or daring to be devastatingly sad. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith UhlichNov 13, 2012
Yet 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. Russell's once-mercurial assets have become a formula. Read full review
60
Total FilmRob JamesOct 27, 2012
Russell follows "The Fighter" with a softer, soapier family dysfunction drama, lightly comic enough to make for palatable Friday-night viewing. As its nutty lovebirds, Cooper and Lawrence save Playbook from the director's surprisingly mundane impulses. Read full review
50
The New YorkerDavid DenbyNov 26, 2012
Pretty much a miscalculation from beginning to end. [26 Nov. 2012, p.87]
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 18, 2012
As a movie about mental illness, Silver Linings Playbook is more lightweight than lighthearted. But thanks to Lawrence, it does one good thing most movies don't do. It actually gets better as it goes along. Read full review
50
Boxoffice MagazineMark KeizerNov 14, 2012
It's not much, but adult audiences starved for mature entertainment should be counted on to investigate this flawed, if admittedly heartfelt, work. Read full review
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