For some movies, a film festival spotlight can feel like a third-degree burn. A picture of modest virtues, like David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, may trip on the red carpet and wilt in the ...

Ah, the holiday season. It's the only time of year when movies with bipolar protagonists briefly seem like a perfectly good idea. Silver Linings Playbook initially presents itself as an edgy, ...

When films are good, actors and directors get a lot of the credit that should go to the screenwriters. In the case of “Silver Linings Playbook,” which is one of the best films of the year, there is a ...

Infidelity, marital breakdown, criminal assault, mental illness. These are topics of high drama; there’s nothing amusing about them. Except that “Silver Linings Playbook” deals with every one — and it ...

This is how smart Jennifer Lawrence is at her job: She realizes that the troubled young woman she plays in "Silver Linings Playbook" is a great role. It's a supporting role in the novel upon which the ...