My ticket stub says that I saw Silver Linings Playbook but it can't be the same film everyone else has seen. It just can't be. This one was supposed to be charming, enjoyable, fun even. It won the TIFF Audience Award. It was supposed to have great characters. Cooper and Lawrence were supposed to have given wonderful performances. DeNiro, it was said, was back. Jackie Weaver, wait, was she in this?

The film I saw was bland and boring. I checked my watch when I found myself engaged: it was 8:50. The film started at 7pm.
So I had plenty of time to just kind of watch the film go by and notice stuff. I imagined the checklist of things…

What a triumph. Worthy of all the praise it has been getting and then some.

I was baffled by how moved I was by this film. I generally do not like this type of 'boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love against all odds' storyline. And even though this is essentially just that, there is so much more to it.

This is a character driven piece and we are given a host of superbly written protagonists, who are for the better part of the film, their own antagonists. It is their nature that makes this film so intriguing and the slowly developing relationships and character arcs so compelling and refreshingly original. These are not characters easy to identify…

Love can make us all a little crazy.
Unless you're already a little crazy.
In that case, maybe love provides a bit of a silver lining, and we can all use a bit of that now can't we?

God, I loved this film. I loved everything about it. Everything was just so right on the nose from the performances to the writing to the atmosphere to the soundtrack to...I just loved it. Just blew me away.

Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence both did a tremendous job in their roles, especially Lawrence who I'm really pulling for to win that Oscar. You feel every single emotion they display from the looks they give and they way they speak alone. Together they…

An incredible cast elevating an already amazing screenplay. The actors are all given excellent material and they more than deliver in their performances.

I really appreciated how he was bipolar his whole life but only diagnosed at an older age, that is so much more common than people realize. I loved the use of music, how it can be an extremely powerful reminder of the past or a crucial tool to help us move on. The dinner scene where Cooper's and Lawrence's characters meet for the first time and discuss medication was really cool - taking medications is a huge deal that drastically affects one's mood and every experience one goes through, and since most don't need it ur all…

Es en la simpleza y en la mundanidad donde, junto a un grupo de actores extraordinarios,  esta película encuentra sus puntos más fuertes. Es ese mensaje sobre el disfrute de las pequeñas cosas lo que hace a esta película especial para mí. Cuando hablo de simpleza es en lo visual, y en el buen sentido de la palabra. No necesita de planos categóricos estéticamente para ser de todas maneras brillante. Eleva la dramedia estadounidense a otro nivel creando una ternura y una diversión en el espectador que la hace ser una de las mejores películas que vi de la última década. Simplemente brillante.

Jennifer Lawrence y Bradley Cooper nunca han estado mejor. Tienen una química fascinante. El resto del elenco…