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36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Film ThreatFilm ThreatYou'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.
- 100Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIt's a feat of star acting, and it helps make (500) Days not just bitter or sweet but everything in between.
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertHere is a rare movie that begins by telling us how it will end and is about how the hero has no idea why.
- 100PremierePremiereMuch like the actual summer (the season, not the character), we never wanted it to end.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe writing is often clever and the overall production playful and intelligent.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe 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.
- 75Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaDeschanel does what she does seemingly without effort, managing to convey Summer's mixed-up messed-upness.
- 70VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyBoy gets girl and boy loses girl in convoluted, sometimes cloying but ultimately winning fashion in 500 Days of Summer.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceIt's more like a love story in a blender. What is unexpected is the sincerity beneath the modest conceit that, yup, love hurts.
- 40NPRNathan LeeNPRNathan LeeFor 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.