When seeking romantic cinema to round out one's Valentine's Day, you need but throw a rock in the general direction of a Walmart-style movie bin you're bound to hit something.
There is a new Adam Sandler on view in "Punch-Drunk Love" angry, sad, desperate. In voice and mannerisms he is the same childlike, love-starved Adam Sandler we've seen in a series of dim comedies, but this film, by seeing him in a new light, encourages us to look again at those films. Given a director and a screenplay that sees through the Sandler persona, that understands it as the disguise of a suffering outsider, Sandler reveals depths and tones we may have suspected but couldn't bring into focus.