Adaptation Critic Reviews

What a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is.Read the full review

I realize that the fear of contracting writer's block from a fictional character is crazy, but in the brilliantly scrambled, self-consuming world of Adaptation it has a certain plausibility.Read the full review

Kaufman strikes just the right balance between playfulness and sincerity, leaping freely from one absurd situation to another before pulling back on the reins.Read the full review

It's typical of the nerve, the bravado, the sheer giddy playfulness and sense of fun that characterize what has to be the boldest and most imaginative studio film of the year.Read the full review

Screenwriting this smart, inventive, passionate and rip-roaringly funny is a rare species. It's magic.Read the full review

Like no movie before it, Adaptation risks everything -- its cool, its credibility, its very soul -- to expose the horror of making art for the business of entertainment.Read the full review

May not be the first movie to examine the creative process. But it's the most playfully brilliant.Read the full review

Surely the most creative trick of the year and grimly funny throughout.Read the full review

The notion of meta has never been diddled more mega than in this giddy Möbius strip of a movie, a contrivance so whizzy and clever that even when it tangles at the end, murked like swampy southwestern Florida itself, the stumble has quotation marks around it.Read the full review