|
|
Article: EDGE OF DARKNESS IN `PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE,' ADAM SANDLER SHOWS PREVIOUSLY UNTAPPED DEPTH AS AN ACTOR.(LIFE & LEISURE)(Movie review)
- Article from:
- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 25, 2002
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Albany Times Union. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: ROGER EBERT Universal Press Syndicate
There is a new Adam Sandler on view in ``Punch-Drunk Love'' -- angry, sad, desperate. In voice and mannerisms he is the same childlike, love-starved Adam Sandler we've met in a series of dim comedies, but this movie, by regarding him in a new light, encourages us to look again at those films. Given a director and a screenplay that see through the Sandler persona, that understand it as the disguise of a suffering outsider, Sandler reveals depths and tones we may have suspected but couldn't bring into focus.
The way to criticize a movie, director Jean-Luc Godard famously said, is to make another movie. In that ...