Super straight forward movie review for me on this one: I loved Silver Linings Playbook. The story of two completely messed up, completely lost and lonely people who come together at their recovery phase.

Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence are simply brilliant as Pat and Tiffany. The dialog is perfect, honest and so well delivered that they feel and act like believably broken people. Their chemistry together is remarkable and I even liked Robert De Niro as Pat’s father (whenever I see De Niro in a recent movie, I usually can’t shake the ‘there’s De Niro!’ reminder. Same with Al Pacino.) They even got Chris Tucker to come out of hiding for a fun little role!

It’s a touching movie that looks at mental illness and relationships that left me feeling like I watched on of the best movies of the year. I thought there were a few odd camera shot choices (really abrupt and dramatic zooms) that distracted me, but SLP deserved all the attention it got for the 2012 awards season.