500 Days of Summer (2009)
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Reviews Counted:189
Fresh:163
Rotten:26
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: A clever, offbeat romantic comedy, 500 Days of Summer is refreshingly honest and utterly charming.
Theatrical Release:Jul 17, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $32,118,648
Synopsis: Fans of HIGH FIDELITY and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND will be charmed by this quirky film that sheds a linear plot in favor of a memory-driven look at a failed romance. Joseph... [More]
Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clark Gregg, Minka Kelly
Director: Marc Webb
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Reviews for 500 Days of Summer
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 3.5/5 |
full review at Movies for the Masses Full Review |
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A kind of Woody Allen comedy but without the jokes. Lots of cultural signifiers to make ivy league couples on a date feel at home, but totally lacking in substance. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
A near perfect genre defying representation of relationships, infatuation, and getting over the first real love of your life... Full Review |
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D+ |
The film revels in the hip witticisms that swim mostly inside a writer's head but never come forth in the real world with the timing and execution seen here. Full Review |
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9/10 |
At last, here's a movie that takes the wimpy, tortured, hopelessly-in-love boys from the other movies and tells them to grow up. Full Review |
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B |
This is a story that most people can probably relate to, unless you are one of those lucky people never to have been on the losing end of the game of love. Full Review |
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7/10 |
Le tout est exécuté avec un tel enthousiasme que nous ne pouvons que nous laisser emporter par cette vague on ne peut plus rafraîchissante, et surtout profondément désarmante. Full Review |
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2/4 |
a nicely played but all-too-preciously eccentric romance Full Review |
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500 Days of Summer never quite convinces, despite the charm of the leads. This is wannabe indie, and these two Hollywood names are too 'big' to play beautiful nobodies navigating a heart-wrenching misunderstanding. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Despite the tricky punctuation, (500) Days of Summer might be the most truthful rom-com about the sort of people you're likely to know; not inhabitants of some movie version of Fairyland. Full Review |
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A true re-invention of the romantic comedy genre for a male skewed audience, complete with realistic lead characters and hilarious insight. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Heartbreak is rarely enjoyable, but in this case, it's very easy company -- as are Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Tom is a prime example of what happens when you grow up listening to too much sad British pop music: unrealistic expectations for romantic love and a taste for skinny ties and sweater vests. Now he's fallen, and fallen hard, for Summer. How could he not? Full Review |
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A- |
Charming yet brutally honest..offers a certain mainstream appeal for anyone who's experienced love's thorny and persuasive illusions. Full Review |
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Charm effuses from this quirky love story in which fate, coincidence, dreams, expectations and reality are chaotically intertwined. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Too timid to be truly cynical about love and too eager for box-office success to try to be a really new kind of romantic comedy, the film fails the ultimate romantic-comedy test: not only does it lack enough laughs, but you’re never emotionally involved. Full Review |
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Highly recommended either to enjoy as a couple or wallow in alone. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Director Marc Webb's debut feature is as far from a Sandra Bullock or Hugh Grant vehicle as you can imagine. What better reason to go see it? From start to end his subtle movie feather-teases your funny spots: it amazes, refreshes and it delights. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Perfectly played, simultaneously serious and light, endlessly inventive, this is a strong contender for the most original date movie of the year. (Terrific) stuff. Full Review |
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4/5 |
If it just misses being this generation’s ‘Annie Hall’, it’s still deliciously refreshing, sweet and fizzy. A sherbet dip of a movie. Full Review |
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