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(500) Days of Summer

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(500) Days of Summer reviews
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7.6 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 36 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Drama  |  Romance

Written by: Scott Neustadter
Michael Weber

Directed by: Marc Webb

Release Date:
Theatrical: July 17, 2009

Running Time: 95 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for sexual material and language

Starring Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clark Gregg, Minka Kelly, Rachel Boston, Matthew Gray Gublert, and Chloe Moretz

This is a story of boy meets girl, begins the wry, probing narrator of 500 Days of Summer, and with that the film takes off at breakneck speed into a funny, true to life and unique dissection of the unruly and unpredictable year-and-a-half of one young man’s no-holds-barred love affair.

What The Critics Said

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100

Film Threat Scott Knopf

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.

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100

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

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

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100

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Here is a rare movie that begins by telling us how it will end and is about how the hero has no idea why.

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100

Premiere Staff (Not credited)

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

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100

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Visually witty, flawlessly played romantic comedy.

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90

Los Angeles Times Michael Ordona

Something seldom seen: an original romantic comedy.

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88

USA Today Claudia Puig

Much like Annie Hall did for a previous generation, (500) Days of Summer may be the movie that best captures a contemporary romantic sensibility.

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88

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

This is a romantic comedy that makes the concept of romantic comedies appealing again -- that reminds you how resonant and transporting they can be when they're done right.

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88

New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott

You know how people say that they don't make romantic comedies like they used to? Turns out they do. At least, director Marc Webb does -- and has -- with his clever and sweet debut, 500 Days of Summer.

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88

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams

A movie that will be discovered, embraced and shared with friends like a favorite record album.

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88

ReelViews James Berardinelli

The casting is perfect. Webb has chosen leads who are familiar but not overexposed, and who are on equal footing (neither overshadows the other).

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88

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

A different kind of love story: an honest one that takes a piece out of you.

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83

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

The film does a lovely job of balancing emotional clarity, formal trickery, pop sweetness, and heartfelt narrative. It is, yes, cute, and it is, yes, quirky. And it is entirely justified, estimable and loveable in being those things.

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80

New York Magazine David Edelstein

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.

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80

Empire Staff (Not credited)

Perfectly played, simultaneously serious and light, endlessly inventive, this is a strong contender for the most original date movie of the year. (Terrific) stuff.

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80

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel charm the pants off us -- and each other! -- in this irresistible comedy.

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80

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

A romantic comedy that feels like real life.

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80

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

The writing is often clever and the overall production playful and intelligent.

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78

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

A funny, seductive, and surprisingly honest dramatization of the ways we snooker ourselves into incompatible love.

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75

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

The whole movie aspires to set an Annie Hall vibe, especially when Tom keeps trying to re-create, first with her and then with someone else.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle David Wiegand

An irresistible feel-good movie about love gone bad.

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75

New York Post Lou Lumenick

It's the oldest bittersweet story in the book, of course, but music-video director Marc Webb approaches his feature debut with great confidence, flair and a minimum of schmaltz.

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

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

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75

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

The film has an easygoing, inquisitive spirit, heightened by Webb's visual conceits

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75

Boston Globe Ty Burr

It's an "Annie Hall" for the iPod generation: über-designed, pleasing to the touch, making up in generic sweetness what it lacks in bite.

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70

The New York Times A.O. Scott

Slight, charming and refreshingly candid little picture.

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70

Slate Dana Stevens

It's fun both to watch and to talk about afterward, and it possesses the elusive rom-com sine qua non: two equally appealing leads who bounce wonderfully off each other.

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70

Variety Todd McCarthy

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

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70

Village Voice Robert Wilonsky

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

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70

Washington Post Desson Thomson

And what makes this autopsy of a love affair funny is Tom's ironic, morose commentary as he revisits what happened.

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70

Time Richard Corliss

Because the emotional drama is so one-sided, I just can't love you.

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67

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

Because we know almost from the get-go that things will turn out bad-to-bittersweet for them, the movie is like one long autopsy of what went wrong, starting with Day No. 488.

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67

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

It goes down smoothly, thanks in large part to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's grounded lead performance and Marc Webb's slick direction, but it seems like every other scene coughs up a dispiriting cliché.

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

Ultimately, the best thing about (500) Days of Summer isn't its gimmicky script. It's the constant performance of Gordon-Levitt, who shifts, scene-by-scene, from moments of ebullience to abject dejection.

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40

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

An exhaustive and exhausting dissection of a relationship that was never all that promising in the first place.

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40

NPR Nathan Lee

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.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 138 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Graham R gave it a7:
A very likable film with an endearing charm. Deschanel is as delightful as ever.

Emmanuel S gave it a10:
Beautiful for men, hard for women. And it´s not an error.

Alex G gave it a10:
This was one of the finest movies i have ever seen because of the realness Marc Webb brought out of it. There is not a single scene in this movie that does not impact the viewer in some way or another. Whether critics or viewers accept it or not (500) Days of Summer also brings out many truths about love that are lost in other movies that are similarly made. Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are charming, funny, and smart and this is a must see!

Su li Zhen gave it an8:
I love it , the movie have smart dialogues , great soundtrack good perfomances by Deschanel and Gordon-Levitt and also very creative.

Jan S gave it a10:
Best film I've seen in years. The film is crushing and hopeful at the same time.

progyan das gave it a7:
Really good movie...great songs...good acting..however got pissed off by some points so deducted 3 points...the docile nature of the guy really turned me off..he looked really servile nd timid..it looked as if the girl was bossing around with him..2 go with it was the really irritating nature of the female character...though there is bound to be all kinds of characters and one must judge them only by the portrayl of the character's nature but still guys are bound to get a bit annoyed...also i don't really like sad endings so..:(..but the film was properly paced and i didn't get bored for even a minute..really good acting from both the leads..the movie was also a welcome change coz it showed the guy moving on in life and making peace with reality..different from the routine romantic comedy...also i think the smartass role of the little sister could have been done away with..as kids look good only in cute roles..all said and done the movie is worth a watch...go watch it!!!!

Kenny gave it an8:
Effective. But what is it that makes it so effective?, His comprehensive, direct, raw, whole and what is more important (but the other romantic comedies are missing) the simple reality. I really arrived and it is that when you can achieve with so little, despite ever loses a little pace, is fascinating as Marc Webb recreates that world is so complicated as love and contact with the public really . It really draws from the opening scenes without really knowing the story goes, but you think you know how it will end and what will happen in it. Jokes in the right places (the points are comedians who have very good) and rawness in the appropriate undoubtedly recommend a movie and the very best I've seen so far this year.

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