Virag's Movie Reviews: Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

You will not see a shittier movie than Silver Linings Playbook in any year.  It was a horrible, dishonest and nasty film, inexcusably reductive of illness in general and mental illness in particular.  The characters were awful people, totally unbelievable and insulting, and the actors completely unlikable.  DeNiro should probably be flogged for his hapless and lazy performance; the rest of the cast should merely be deeply ashamed.  I didn't read the book, and apparently the book is even more disgusting and lame-brained, as impossible as that seems.  Everything on display in SLP is disgusting and wrong; David O. Russell should go back to make films about literal motherfuckers.  There is one and only one thing that could make this flick worse than it was: a role for Paul Giamatti.