Punch-Drunk Love

No long Anderson, extraordinary monologues, no expertly interwoven subplots, no drugs, Punch-Drunk Love was a film we'd not only never seen Anderson create, it was and still is a movie we'd never seen anywhere.

Kim Morgan: There Will Be Love Kim Morgan 2011

No long Anderson, extraordinary monologues, no expertly interwoven subplots, no drugs, Punch-Drunk Love was a film we'd not only never seen Anderson create, it was and still is a movie we'd never seen anywhere.

Kim Morgan: There Will Be Love Kim Morgan 2011

While this vastly talented duo has worked together before on previous films like Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love, director Paul Thomas Anderson has never given Philip Seymour Hoffman the leading role in any of his films.

Philip Seymour Hoffman Cast in Paul Thomas Anderson's Next « FirstShowing.net 2009

Thesalvation from family via romantic love that Walters experiences inthat film is further explored in Punch-Drunk Love, the first Andersonfilm that really had more to do with coupling than family dynamics.

'There Will Be Blood' wishes you a very happy Father's Day | EW.com 2008

This skirting of bathos to find emotional connection has been a recurring motif in Anderson's work excepting perhaps the endearingly oddball dissonance of Punch-Drunk Love, a willingness to engage with archetypal stories and ideas transferred into banal and stereotypically American settings.

Archive 2008-01-01 Ed Howard 2008

This skirting of bathos to find emotional connection has been a recurring motif in Anderson's work excepting perhaps the endearingly oddball dissonance of Punch-Drunk Love, a willingness to engage with archetypal stories and ideas transferred into banal and stereotypically American settings.

1/13: Réponse de femmes; There Will Be Blood; Hard Eight Ed Howard 2008

In Punch-Drunk Love, which won the Best Director prize at Cannes and opens here on Oct. 18, Mr. Blake's animation sequences are used to illustrate the fluctuations of the love story involving stars Adam Sandler and Emily Watson.

Digital Love 2002

The halfway-through festival "centerpiece" is a huge morale booster, but for every event like Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love, you'll have to drag yourself to something like Chihwaseon, a South Korean tale about an artist.

Cheer Up, New York! 2002

Department, there's Punch-Drunk Love, a desperately unfunny comedy by the overrated director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia), starring the meathead robot Adam Sandler as a mindless doofus who wanders through supermarkets reading labels, hordes cases of instant pudding for frequent-flyer miles, and falls victim to a phone-sex racket.

Film Festival's Riveting Fare 2002

Adam Sandler has appeared in some of the highest-grossing film comedies ever and won acting plaudits for more serious roles in movies like Punch-Drunk Love and Funny People.

Hecklerspray Steve Charnock 2010