500 Days of Summer (2009)

Critic Reviews

Metascore (36 reviews)
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100

Film Threat
You're going to hear a lot about 500 Days of Summer over the next few months. All of the good stuff is true. Any bad stuff you hear is not.
100

Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
It's a feat of star acting, and it helps make (500) Days not just bitter or sweet but everything in between.
100

Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
Here is a rare movie that begins by telling us how it will end and is about how the hero has no idea why.
100

Premiere
Much like the actual summer (the season, not the character), we never wanted it to end.
80

Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter
The writing is often clever and the overall production playful and intelligent.
80

David Edelstein New York Magazine (Vulture)
The film is, finally, a brilliant tap dance over a void: There’s no real drama when the inner life of the female lead is so shrouded, even if that’s the point.
75

Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer
Deschanel does what she does seemingly without effort, managing to convey Summer's mixed-up messed-upness.
70

Todd McCarthy Variety
Boy gets girl and boy loses girl in convoluted, sometimes cloying but ultimately winning fashion in 500 Days of Summer.
70

Village Voice
It's more like a love story in a blender. What is unexpected is the sincerity beneath the modest conceit that, yup, love hurts.
40

Nathan Lee NPR
For all its rhetorical whimsy and hipster dressings, (500) Days of Summer is a thoroughly conservative affair, as culturally and romantically status quo as any Jennifer Aniston vehicle.