Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Dopo il successo di The fighter, David O.Russell ha scelto di tornare a quel sapiente mix di commedia e dramma, che ne aveva segnato i fortunati esordi.
- [New – 5/30] | Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- The Master Antunes @ Row Three
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Silver Linings Playbook is from the “we’re all screaming at each other at the same time so it must be funny” school of comedy.
- Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: Making The Fighter now seems like the perfect training for helming Silver Linings, another poignant and beautiful portrayal of seeking out redemption in the wake of life’s challenging messes. Once again, Russell puts fascinating, flawed characters on display, which the perfectly cast and uniformly excellent actors build into a close-knit universe to which we have boundless access.
- Joshua Brunsting @ CriterionCast
- Stephen Carty @ Flix Capacitor
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, apart from having one of the most pointlessly awkward titles in recent memory, is in effect two separate films[…] Neither of those two films is terrible by any means, but they are so clumsily grafted together that it winds up being the cinematic equivalent of a set of shelves that have been built without the use of a spirit level.
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: [Life of Pi’s] final revelation by the story’s unreliable narrator, a now adult Pi superbly interpreted by Irrfan Khan, darkens the preceding story considerably, delivering quite another film than what one initially expects.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Silver Linings Playbook is, like its protagonist, hopelessly optimistic … and it’s a sign of the film’s potency that we buy into it with our own sense of hopefulness.
- Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
- Excerpt: This film is less about mental illness and more about our many coping mechanisms.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Unlikely & engaging, this quirky, off-beat romantic dramedy is a cheerfully engaging crowd-pleaser.
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Sometimes uncomfortable, often funny, and always electrifying…
- Daniel Kelly @ eFilmCritic
- Danny King @ The King Bulletin
- Excerpt: I want to get down-and-dirty with the people that matter — something Russell achieved in ‘The Fighter’ — but ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ is a bit too neat and fluffy to fully provide that.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Josh Larsen @ LarsenOnFilm.com
- Excerpt: …recalls the screwball psychiatry of Russell’s earlier efforts, only this time the farce has heart.
- [New – 5/30] | Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Excerpt: David O. Russell takes a step away from his typical approach to filmmaking to craft Silver Linings Playbook as a broad, accessible comedy with touches of cinematic style.
- Dan Lybarger @ KCActive.com
- Excerpt: Loaded with pleasant surprises, a terrific cast and assured handling from screenwriter-director David O. Russell, this adaptation of Matthew Quick’s novel combines romantic comedy, dysfunctional family woes and a sense of danger without ever losing its way.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Jason McKiernan @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: The entertainment quotient is so high that it can –and has, for many – disguise the fact that the crux of this story should hinge on something deeper.
- Ryan McNeil @ The Matinee
- Excerpt: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK is a reminder of what’s possible. the things we want might be out of reach, that doesn’t mean that good things can’t still come from reaching anyway
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: A gold standard comedy drama.
- Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Tiago Ramos @ Split Screen [Portuguese]
- Jamie S. Rich @ Portland Mercury
- Excerpt: The path of this thing seems obvious, but the film’s romance sneaks up on you: Russell disguises his love story by shooting “Silver Linings Playbook” with the same visceral immediacy he brought to “The Fighter”, cloaking the courtship in the manic energy of mental disorders.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: It’s a good romantic comedy, good but not great.
- Marcio Sallem @ Cinema com Critica [Portuguese]
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Are you the kind of person who can find a silver lining in any situation? If so, you will love this endlessly optimistic film.
- Norm Schrager @ Meet In the Lobby
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Spinning pap from mental illness, “Sliver Linings Playbook” is more entertaining than it should be. It is still a mediocre movie.
- Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
- Phil Villarreal @ OKMagazine.com
- Excerpt: You can tell where the romantic comedy part of the movie is going all along — gee, will Pat stop obsessing over his wife and fall for Jennifer Lawrence in Spandex? — but it doesn’t matter, because the movie is funny and smart enough to distract you away from its nonsensical silliness.
- Ed Whitfield @ The Ooh Tray
