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Brilliant!!!!! One of my all time favorite movies
As a movie "buff" and sometimes actor myself, I've seen a LOT of movies and can testify how hard it is to find a truly original plot....but this movie HAS ONE... a truly original plot with so many twists that even a jaded old movie fan can't guess what's going to happen next. I noticed that some of the critics called this a comedy .. and it is, indeed, very funny in places but be
An outstanding, hilarious romp. It makes your head hurt, but take an aspirin and relax, sit back and enjoy this nutty film. It is possibly the most amazing discussion of the nature of creativity ever attempted, and somehow it turns this abstract question into a romp. Michael Mendelsohn
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Dana Stevens
The New York Times
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. Full Review
David Edelstein
Slate
I'm not turning cartwheels over Adaptation as energetically as my colleagues. Part of me -- and I'm thinking aloud here, I've likely been infected by Kaufman's comic self-consciousness, and also by his meta-comic impulse to draw attention to that self-consciousness, and probably also by his meta-meta-comic impulse to draw attention to drawing attention to his self-consciousness -- that -- that -- Full Review
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
May not be the first movie to examine the creative process. But it's the most playfully brilliant. Full Review
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
An occasionally maddening and sometimes brilliant motion picture that varies between being insightfully sharp and insufferably self-indulgent. Regardless of whether you appreciate the movie or not, it's likely to stay with you. Full Review
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
Adaptation, like "Being John Malkovich" before it, is far from a well-made film, even on its own flaky terms. But it's a brave, sometimes brilliant one, with a phantasmagoric ending, full of love and hope, that defeats prose description. Never was an adaptation more original. Full Review
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