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 Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dana Stevens
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 Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
Surely the most creative trick of the year and grimly funny throughout.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Screenwriting this smart, inventive, passionate and rip-roaringly funny is a rare species. It's magic.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
May not be the first movie to examine the creative process. But it's the most playfully brilliant.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
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 Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
An inspired flight of fancy, an oddly poignant examination of the creative process, a rumination on adaptation (orchids to their environment, books to the screen and misfits like Charlie to life) and, in its ultimate irony, a story in which our hero learns a life-altering lesson.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
What a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
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 Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
A highly enjoyable failure, a quandary that can't resolve itself.Read Full Review »
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