| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
A- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"What a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is..." more... |
A |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"...almost all of it is funny and provocative in ways many other Hollywood movies, especially the adaptations, can't touch." more... |
A- |
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk |
"...about the power of passion." more... |
A |
| E! Online |
"Weird and wonderful in so many ways..." more... |
A |
filmcritic.com
Jeremiah Kipp |
"It's a fascinating artist's journey into his own navel, well worth thinking about." more... |
B+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"(Spike) Jonze's direction is graceful, deeply felt but surprisingly without self-consciousness." more... |
A |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
"...the boldest and most imaginative studio film of the year..." more... |
A |
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman |
"...an extraordinarily clever comedy that falters only in the last 20 minutes." more... |
A- |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...brilliantly scrambled..." more... |
A |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"An hour after seeing Adaptation, I was still wondering exactly what the hell I had seen and whether I liked it or not." more... |
B |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"Screenwriting this smart, inventive, passionate and rip-roaringly funny is a rare species." more... |
A |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...an idea worth following, but it leads to a dead end." more... |
C |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...a movie that comes excitingly close to being some kind of masterpiece of surrealism." more... |
A- |
USA Today
Mike Clark |
"Too smart to ignore but a little too smugly superior to like..." more... |
B- |
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