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» 'Days Of Summer': Ephron For The Hipster Set
   Review by Nathan Lee [NPR]. "...audiences may well grow bored with the relentless emo-chic of these two privileged, self-involved hotties, acting out their twee little dramas and faux-naif antics."
   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106480238

» A.V. Club: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by Scott Tobias. "The film winds up in a no-man’s land between Hollywood and something real."
   http://www.avclub.com/articles/500-days-of-summer,30422/

» Austin Chronicle: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by Kimberley Jones. "A funny, seductive, and surprisingly honest dramatization of the ways we snooker ourselves into incompatible love."
   http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid%3A812389

» Baltimore Sun: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by Michael Sragow. "The whole movie aspires to set an Annie Hall vibe..."
   http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/movies/bal-ae.mo.500days24jul24,0,1644340.story

» Bask in the warmth of delightful '(500) Days of Summer'
   Review by Claudia Puig [USA Today]. "...may be the movie that best captures a contemporary romantic sensibility."
   http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2009-07-16-500-days-of-summer_N.htm

» Boston Globe: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by 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."
   http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2009/07/17/500_days_of_summer_is_a_charmer/

» BrandonFibbs.com: (500) Days of Summer
   Review of the film. "...magical, transcendent film..."
   http://brandonfibbs.com/2009/07/16/500-days-of-summer/

» Chicago Reader: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by J.R. Jones. "Visually witty, flawlessly played romantic comedy."
   http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/MovieTimes?film=977544

» Chicago Sun-Times: 500 Days of Summer
   Review by 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."
   http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090715/REVIEWS/907159997

» Chicago Tribune: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by Michael Phillips. "The structure's mainly what this pleasant summer-weight diversion has going for it."
   http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0717-500-days-of-summerjul17,0,6694050.story

» Christian Science Monitor: 500 Days of Summer
   Review by Peter Rainer. "...old goods in new wrapping."
   http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0717/p17s04-almo.html

» Empire: (500) Days of Summer
   Review of the film. "Perfectly played, simultaneously serious and light, endlessly inventive, this is a strong contender for the most original date movie of the year."
   http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=136474

» Entertainment Weekly: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by Owen Gleiberman. "[...] like a mood ring cued to the ups, downs, and confusions of modern love."
   http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20291403,00.html

» Film Threat: 500 Days of Summer
   Review by Scott Knopf. "Marc Webb, Scott Neustadter, and Michael H. Weber just kicked the hell out of Hollywood their first time up."
   http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=11501

» For Gordon-Levitt and Deschanel, Love Still Hurts in (500) Days of Summer
   Review by Robert Wilonsky [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."
   http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-15/film/for-gordon-levitt-and-deschanel-love-still-hurts-in-500-days-of-summer/

» Los Angeles Times: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by Michael Ordona. "It bristles with energy, emotional and intellectual, as it flits about the dizzying highs and weeping-karaoke lows of a passionate entanglement."
   http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-500days17-2009jul17,0,4389736.story

» Love is strange: '(500) Days of Summer'
   Review by Shawn Levy [Portland Oregonian]. "The film does a lovely job of balancing emotional clarity, formal trickery, pop sweetness, and heartfelt narrative."
   http://blog.oregonlive.com/madaboutmovies/2009/07/love_is_strange_500_days_of_su.html

» Miami Herald: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by Rene Rodriguez. "...a movie to fall in love with."
   http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1163596.html

» Music helps love story strike right chords
   Review by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]. "A movie that will be discovered, embraced and shared with friends like a favorite record album."
   http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/reviews.nsf/movie/story/F331BBC900F9940C862575FB006B8A84?OpenDocument

» New Orleans Times-Picayune: 500 Days of Summer
   Review by Mike Scott. "...one of the most satisfying movies of the summer. "
   http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2009/07/500_days_of_summer_is_easy_to.html

» New York Daily News: 500 Days of Summer
   Review by Joe Neumaier. "This quirky movie gets that perception isn't always reality."
   http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2009/07/17/2009-07-17_500_days_of_summer_.html

» New York Post : (500) Days of Summer
   Review by Lou Lumenick. "It's the oldest bittersweet story in the book, of course, but [...] Marc Webb approaches his feature debut with great confidence, flair and a minimum of schmaltz."
   http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/bittersweet_symphony_dHYmAYL3jBkPmlug2EqmIP

» Opening night: Breezy tale of a love that didn't last
   Review by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer]. "...an engagingly breezy tale about a guy with a broken heart and the girl who broke it."
   http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/movies/20090326_Opening_night__Breezy_tale_of_a_love_that_didn_t_last.html

» Premiere: 500 Days of Summer
   Review of the film. "Much like the actual summer (the season, not the character), we never wanted it to end."
   http://www.premiere.com/Review/Movies/500-Days-of-Summer

» Rolling Stone: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by Peter Travers. "This knockout of a movie expertly blends bliss [...] and the blues [...]."
   http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/25457855/review/29192072/500_days_of_summer

» Salon.com: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by Stephanie Zacharek. "...everything that's wrong, on the surface, with "(500) Days of Summer" pales in light of everything that's going on beneath its surface."
   http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2009/07/17/500_days_summer/index.html

» San Francisco Chronicle: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by David Wiegand. "...irresistible feel-good movie about love gone bad."
   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/16/MV9E18NBAS.DTL&type=movies

» Slate: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by Dana Stevens. "If only some sharp-eyed script editor had run 500 Days through the de-sappifying machine, it could have been the first great romantic comedy of 2009."
   http://www.slate.com/id/2223021/

» The Chutry Experiment: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by Chuck Tryon. "...an effective rejoinder to some of the worst cliches of romantic comedy, at least until the film’s final sequence."
   http://www.chutry.wordherders.net/wp/?p=2223

» The Globe and Mail: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by Liam Lacey. "The film really only feels vital when it focuses on the pain of rejection. "
   http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/500-days-of-summer/article1221385/

» The Hollywood Reporter: 500 Days of Summer
   Review by Kirk Honeycutt. "The writing is often clever and the overall production playful and intelligent."
   http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/film-review-500-days-of-summer-1003931693.story

» The New York Times: (500) Days of Summer
   Review by A.O. Scott. "...a movie that is, for the most part, as mopily, winningly seductive as the Regina Spektor songs on the soundtrack and at its best as unexpectedly lovely as the views of Los Angeles [...]"
   http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/movies/17five.html?ref=movies

» Time: 500 Days of Summer
   Review by Richard Corliss. "...snazz, schmaltz, an iPod's worth of pop melodies spanning five decades and two of Hollywood's most attractive young stars..."
   http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1911108,00.html

» Variety: 500 Days of Summer
   Review by Todd McCarthy. "Stylish feature debut by longtime musicvideo director Marc Webb goes out of its way to take an unconventional approach to telling one of the oldest stories in the book [...]"
   http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=review&id=2478&reviewid=VE1117939370&cs=1&query=500+days+of+summer

» Washington Post: 500 Days of Summer
   Review by Desson Thomson. "A movie that sidesteps the Pollyanna pornography of Happily Ever After. "
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/500-days-of-summer,1156299.html