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'(500) Days of Summer' Is Just Too Fucking Cutenew
(500) Days of Summer has a few fantastic scenes, but mostly, it hovers nervously around the edges of a moment.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
09-11-2009 |
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'(500) Days of Summer' Ain't No Sunshinenew
Whatever became of the rom-com? Back in the early- to mid-90s, it was simple. Boy meets girl. Girl isn't interested. Boy chases girl until he catches her. Done and done.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
08-12-2009 |
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Bland Love in '(500) Days of Summer'new
(500) Days is that it's cloying and dishonest, indulging all of the clichés and false optimism of an average love story while masquerading as something that is questioning those things.
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, Mark Webb
750 Words About '(500) Days Of Summer'new
We adore Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. Their new movie ... not so much
SEE Magazine |
Luke De Smet and Clara Loginov |
07-31-2009 |
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'(500) Days of Summer' Inspires the Inner Crotchety Old Mannew
The makers of the parenthetically titled movie at hand would do well to set aside the pop-culture bells and whistles that choke their film and focus on the task of engrossing an audience in a love story between two intelligent people in their late 20s.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
07-30-2009 |
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'(500) Days of Summer': The Need to Pleasenew
(500) Days of Summer comments on and rejects romantic-comedy conventions -- well, some of them.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
07-29-2009 |
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'(500) Days of Summer': A Modern Romancenew
This romantic comedy is a deeply funny, seductive, and surprisingly honest dramatization of the ways we snooker ourselves into incompatible love.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
07-23-2009 |
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After '(500) Days of Summer,' Here's an Open Letter to Zooey Deschanelnew
Zooey, baby, can't you see Marc Webb and his friends don't understand you? Yes, I know that's part of the movie's point, but the puncturing of boys' expectations can be accomplished by three-dimensional women as well. There are no real girls in (500) Days of Summer. I think you should play one again.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
07-22-2009 |
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'(500) Days of Summer' Takes a Wise Look at Love Found, and Lost, and Found
No matter how goofy the film gets at individual moments, it becomes fairly irresistible for one simple reason. When it comes to understanding heartbreak and the role of different loves in our lives, it's almost painfully wise.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-21-2009 |
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'(500) Days of Summer': We Heart Zooey Deschanelnew
Can there be a thing as too much cute? This is the dilemma for Summer (also the name of Zooey Deschanel's scary-adorable character), which plunges us with twee abandon into a relationship gone bad.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
07-20-2009 |
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Is '(500) Days of Summer' the Ultimate Date Movie, or Exactly the Opposite?new
(500) Days of Summer is funny and charming and painful and truthful. There are movies I like, movies I love and movies I appreciate. But it's rare that I'm genuinely smitten.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
07-15-2009 |
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