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Movies about mental illness often make me cringe. It's clear that most films don't really understand it. This is why you so often see cliches, such as using the mentally ill for comic relief or portraying them as eccentrics who behave in...

Let’s say you come home early and are surprised to find your wife in the shower. With another man. What would you do? If you’re Pat Solitano, Jr. (Cooper) you beat the hell out of him. Of course you now find yourself out of a job, out of a wife...

I don’t love the title. Yet I’m highly in favor of almost everything else about “Silver Linings Playbook,” which turns grief and mental illness into rich fodder for warmth, connection and comedy.

Damaged goods, that's Tiffany and Pat. He's a bipolar teacher just out of eight months in a state loony bin. She's a young widow, overcompensating for the death of her cop husband by fucking, well, anyone. They're manic energy unleashed.

The point is clear: The person who wants to find happiness in everything will fail. It's inevitable, as not everything in life is a happy ending waiting to happen. We get a glimmer of the error of the newfound optimism of the protagonist of Silver...

Being in love is a kind of insanity. It makes you do crazy things. If you are crazy to begin with, maybe love gets even more intense than it does for other people. That's the premise of this romantic comedy about two people in love who have...

Scruffy and screwed-up - like most of its characters - Silver Linings Playbook is an encouraging effort from writer-director David O. Russell. With this story of two emotionally unstable friends (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence), Russell...

As its title suggests, “Silver Linings Playbook” is about looking for the bright side in life, acknowledging that sometimes it’s a victory just to be awake and functioning and wearing clothes. That’s an upbeat and sensitive message coming from David...

"Silver Linings Playbook" has an infectious energy, and not just because one of the main characters is manic. It's both bitingly real and sheer fantasy - which makes sense with David O. Russell at the helm.

The film boasts a raft of strong performances, but it's Russell's smart, compassionate direction that sets it apart.

Writer-director Russell continues his winning streak after scoring a bullseye with The Fighter. His new opus here though is an altogether different beast, but with the same kind of vivid characterisations that elevate the material to a higher plain.

Hollywood movies, and even off-Hollywood independent films, have long encouraged us to empathize with unstable or psychologically troubled characters only if they're "kooky" for a little while, as a prelude to more palatable, normalized levels of...

Silver Linings Playbook is a quirky adult romantic comedy that goes beyond the standard rhythms of the genre. Although this is a funny movie, there's an edge to the humor, not unlike what we have become accustomed to in the work of Alexander Payne.

Spinning pap from mental illness, “Sliver Linings Playbook” is more entertaining than it should be. It is still a mediocre movie. That it arrives at the same time as Jacques Audiard’s brilliant convention-breaking romantic drama “Rust and Bone,” bares...

Bradley Cooper plays a mentally ill man who lives with his parents and Jennifer Lawrence a troubled widow in the deliciously entertaining Silver Linings Playbook, a drama-comedy that slowly and unexpectedly transforms into one of the sexiest and most...

Every so often some horrendous film appears that, inexplicably, gets good reviews in some quarters. This season’s “critic’s darling” is an absolutely appalling excuse for a romantic comedy called THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK.

Recently out of a mental institution but far from stable, a man (Bradley Cooper) obsesses about reconciling with his ex-wife, even as he meets a woman (Jennifer Lawrence) who is equally emotionally fragile. Writer-director David O. Russell...

Stress is the engine that makes David O. Russell’s comedies go, like a Bunsen burner set under unstable human chemistry. It’s true of his debut feature, Spanking The Monkey, with its escalating sexual frustration and Freudian weirdness; it’s true of...

David O. Russell has long established himself as a reliable purveyor of Hollywood quirk. His films, whatever their faults, have tended to err on the side of idiosyncratic, which has the advantage of distinguishing what are essentially traditional...

If you're expecting David O. Russell to deliver a film that realistically depicts the challenges and processes of living with bipolar disorder, you'll need to adjust that expectation toward the manic end of life's spectrum.

Family nuttiness, football madness, romantic obsession, and certifiable mental illness coexist happily in Silver Linings Playbook — a crazy beaut of a comedy that brims with generosity and manages to circumvent predictability at every turn.

Jennifer Lawrence’s smart, funny and altogether masterful performance as a troubled widow in David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook’’ simply blows away the competition in this year’s race for the Best Actress Oscar.

Every single one of us is at least a little fucked up mentally. Obviously some people have worse conditions than others, but deep down there’s something tweaked within all of us – it’s part of the human experience.

Based on the (superior) novel by Matthew Quick, Silver Linings Playbook follows Bradley Cooper's Pat Solitano as he attempts to get his life back on track after being released from a mental hospital - with the movie exploring Pat's relationships with...

Possibly one of the best things to come out of the success of Mark Wahlberg's 2010 boxing drama "The Fighter" is that it marked the return of director David O. Russell to the spotlight as a director. Now he's back with a new movie that he also wrote...

Pitched somewhere between the existential screwball comedy of I Heart Huckabees (2004), the experimental whack-job of a film that almost ended his career as a director, and The Fighter (2010), the classically unironic, uplifting drama that resuscitated...

Bradley Cooper plays Pat, a former teacher with bipolar disorder, who must move back home with mom and dad after spending eight months in a mental institution for brutally attacking his wife's lover. Pat's father (Robert DeNiro) is concerned for...

Very few rom-coms have the power to make you reflect, or for that matter even try to achieve that effect. David O. Russell's multiple-Oscar contender is special that way. The uncomplicated tale about two people on the edge leaves a warm afterglow...

David O. Russell is a lucky man. The filmmaker routinely finds himself mentioned in the same conversations involving other young directors such as Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson: young(er) American men forming their own...

“Silver Linings Playbook” เป็นหนังรักที่มาพร้อมตัวละครเอกที่มีบุคลิกและลักษณะที่โดดเด่น พร้อมการแสดงระดับเทพของบรรดาทีมนักแสดงนำ บวกกับการเล่าเรื่องที่ไม่เพียงลำดับเรื่องราวได้ดีและสนุกสนานชวนคิดชวนติดตามเท่านั้น แต่ยังค่อยๆพาผู้ชมไปสำรวจพัฒนาการด้าน...

Drawing on his own experience with mental illness, director David O. Russell's latest buzz film - replete with eight Oscar nominations - straddles a fine line between farce and kitchen-sink drama before settling into a groove that gets under one's skin.

As a writer-director, Russell packs this comedy-drama with so many jagged edges that wading into it feels unsafe. Especially since almost everyone in the film is clinically unhinged. But deep inside, it's a surprisingly warm-hearted story with...

It’s tough being a white American male these days: The world used to be his oyster, and now he’s chum.

When stars put on their no-make-up, serious faces to play characters with mental illness you can’t help getting a bit cynical. They might as well tattoo ‘Nominate me for Best Actor, pretty please,’ on their foreheads.

Hot off The Fighter, the Oscar-winning comeback that marked his first feature since 2004’s I ♥ Huckabees, writer/director David O. Russell is evidently making up for lost time.

Jennifer Lawrence is the standout in a tonally uneven, eccentric romantic dramedy that fuses The Fisher King with Romy And Michele’s High School Reunion.

We all love them but most exist in a parallel Hollywood universe where characters behave according to a prescribed formula, women are shrews and gross-out humour is substituted for genuine wit.