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• 'Days Of Summer': Ephron For The Hipster Set

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106480238
  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."

• A.V. Club: (500) Days of Summer

  http://www.avclub.com/review/500-days-of-summer-30422
  Review by Scott Tobias. "The film winds up in a no-man’s land between Hollywood and something real."

• Austin Chronicle: (500) Days of Summer

  http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2009-07-24/500-days-of-summer/
  Review by Kimberley Jones. "A funny, seductive, and surprisingly honest dramatization of the ways we snooker ourselves into incompatible love."

• Bask in the warmth of delightful '(500) Days of Summer'

  http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2009-07-16-500-days-of-summer_N.htm
  Review by Claudia Puig [USA Today]. "...may be the movie that best captures a contemporary romantic sensibility."

• Boston Globe: (500) Days of Summer

  http://archive.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2009/07/17/500_days_of_summer_is_a_charmer/
  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."

• Chicago Reader: (500) Days of Summer

  http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/MovieTimes?film=977544
  Review by J.R. Jones. "Visually witty, flawlessly played romantic comedy."

• Chicago Sun-Times: 500 Days of Summer

  http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/500-days-of-summer-2009
  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."

• Christian Science Monitor: 500 Days of Summer

  http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0717/p17s04-almo.html
  Review by Peter Rainer. "...old goods in new wrapping."

• Entertainment Weekly: (500) Days of Summer

  http://www.ew.com/article/2009/07/31/500-days-summer
  Review by Owen Gleiberman. "[...] like a mood ring cued to the ups, downs, and confusions of modern love."

• For Gordon-Levitt and Deschanel, Love Still Hurts in (500) Days of Summer

  http://www.villagevoice.com/film/for-gordon-levitt-and-deschanel-love-still-hurts-in-500-days-of-summer-6391379
  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."

• Love is strange: '(500) Days of Summer'

  http://blog.oregonlive.com/madaboutmovies/2009/07/love_is_strange_500_days_of_su.html
  Review by Shawn Levy [Portland Oregonian]. "The film does a lovely job of balancing emotional clarity, formal trickery, pop sweetness, and heartfelt narrative."

• New Orleans Times-Picayune: 500 Days of Summer

  http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2009/07/500_days_of_summer_is_easy_to.html
  Review by Mike Scott. "...one of the most satisfying movies of the summer. "

• New York Daily News: 500 Days of Summer

  http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2009/07/17/2009-07-17_500_days_of_summer_.html
  Review by Joe Neumaier. "This quirky movie gets that perception isn't always reality."

• New York Post : (500) Days of Summer

  http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/bittersweet_symphony_dHYmAYL3jBkPmlug2EqmIP
  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."

• Opening night: Breezy tale of a love that didn't last

  http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/movies/20090326_Opening_night__Breezy_tale_of_a_love_that_didn_t_last.html
  Review by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer]. "...an engagingly breezy tale about a guy with a broken heart and the girl who broke it."

• Rolling Stone: (500) Days of Summer

  http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/500-days-of-summer-20090716
  Review by Peter Travers. "This knockout of a movie expertly blends bliss [...] and the blues [...]."

• Salon.com: (500) Days of Summer

  http://www.salon.com/2009/07/17/500_days_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."

• San Francisco Chronicle: (500) Days of Summer

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/16/MV9E18NBAS.DTL&type=movies
  Review by David Wiegand. "...irresistible feel-good movie about love gone bad."

• Slate: (500) Days of Summer

  http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2009/07/500_days_of_summer.html
  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."

• The Chutry Experiment: (500) Days of Summer

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

• The Globe and Mail: (500) Days of Summer

  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/500-days-of-summer/article788147/
  Review by Liam Lacey. "The film really only feels vital when it focuses on the pain of rejection. "

• Time: 500 Days of Summer

  http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1911108,00.html
  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..."

• Washington Post: 500 Days of Summer

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

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