"In this movie, you'll see Sandler like you've never seen him."
— Desson Thomson, Washington Post
"Entirely unpredictable and marked by audacious strokes of directorial bravado."
— Todd McCarthy, Variety
"It's a honey of a performance: controlled, achingly human, and funny in the deepest ways."
— Ty Burr, Boston Globe
"Mr. Anderson has found a way to fashion a passionate romance out of the materials of postmodern chaos."
— Andrew Sarris, Observer
"Manages to be both heartbreaking and happy, while managing to look like nothing you've ever seen before."
— Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News
"Anderson orchestrates a comic romance like no other. The effect is intoxicating. Sandler and the movie will knock you for a loop."
— Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"With its feverish, percussive soundtrack and bravura cinematography, is like a bolt from the blue, chock-full of unexpected delight."
— Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
"Something we haven't seen before: a manic-depressive romantic comedy that aspires to the soul of a musical. It's a new-fashioned love song."
— Charles Taylor, Salon
"What Mr. Anderson wants to do is recapture, without nostalgia, the giddiness and sweep of old movies, and his mastery of the emotional machinery of the medium is breathtaking."
— A.O. Scott, New York Times
"I found it exquisite. In part I responded out of sheer amazement: I've never seen anything like the sequences in which Sandler, in his boxy, sea-blue suit, charges around his warehouse to the rhythm of Brion's harsh drums."
— David Edelstein, Slate
"A love-letter to the golden age of film, Anderson's opus is the equivalent of a jubilant Technicolor MGM romantic musical, except without the requisite singing and dancing and crossed with a stark cynicism that is Sandler's hallmark."
— Sara Michelle Fetters, MovieFreak.com
