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Article: One-Two Punch: Not just an unlikely Adam Sandler romp, P.T. Anderson's latest is also a neurotic tour de force.

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October 16, 2002
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PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE A Director: P.T. Anderson Starring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman Opens: Fri., Oct. 18

A cockamamie tone poem pitched precipitously between swoony lyricism and violent catastrophe, P.T. Anderson's defiantly avant-garde Punch-Drunk Love is not just the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly neurotic romantic comedy in cinema history, but it will also probably stand for all time as the most willfully abstract, formally challenging picture ever to star Adam Sandler.

That's right, folks. Hell has frozen over and pigs are flying, as we cranky critics happily fill our word counts fellating the star of Mr. Deeds. Is everybody's favorite wedding ...

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