Being that Marc Webb is best known as a music video director for top-selling artists like Fergie and Miley Cyrus, and critical darlings like Regina Spector, it makes perfect sense that music is an integral part of his first feature film, the simply delightful 500 Days of Summer. In the vein of Garden State, this hipster love story uses music to illustrate the young protagonist’s moods, in this case, Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who has a pop-song philosophy on love that is executed in sonic perfection on screen. Unfortunately, the film’s soundtrack falls a bit short.

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• 500 Days of Summer
• Hall & Oates
• Simon and Garfunkel
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• Wolfmother