Film Review – Silver Linings Playbook

Reviewed at the 2012 Twin Cities Film Fest

There’s only one filmmaker nutty enough to tackle the manic highs and
lows of “Silver Linings Playbook,” and that’s David O. Russell.
Rocketing forward after his last picture, 2010’s “The Fighter,” was
showered with box office success and Oscar gold, Russell cooks up
another vibrant spectacle of bad behavior and personal triumph, only
instead of boxers and drug abuse, this material covers mental illness
and a profound fear of pills. A slyly hilarious, refreshingly vulnerable
dramedy, “Silver Linings Playbook” is a feature of constant surprise.
And when Russell calls on cliché to dig out an ending, he does so with
extraordinary skill and euphoric cinematic energy. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com