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OFCS Rating: 88% Fresh |
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8/10 | "Jonze and Kaufman are a match made in heaven, as Kaufman needs gimmicks to get through his stories, and Jonze needs the stories to sell some more gimmicks." |
| Modamag.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
| "Careens between fiction and confession, repetition and revelation." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
3.5/4 | "...a fabulous, daring, intelligent and wild experience, electric down to the finest details and polished by its own shrewd sense of comic intensity." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
3/4 | "An imaginative, funny, and highly original journey." |
| Movie Boeuf |
| David N. Butterworth |
2/4 | "...trying way too hard to be unique." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
B+ | "An intelligent pic for those who are impressed that the filmmaker didn't dumb the odd story down until the last 20 minutes." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
4/4 | "Endlessly enlightening, always fascinating, and nothing short of miraculous, to see Adaptation is to live, see, breathe, and feel in an entirely different way than any other motion picture released this year has offered." |
| DustinPutman.com |
| Dustin Putman |
3.5/4 | "Watching Adaptation evolve into something profound, if not entirely complete, is certainly beautiful to behold." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Ed Gonzalez |
| "Una película, se diría, más allá de toda lógica." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
A- | "The genius of this remarkably clever and funny film is how non-confusing it is to watch." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
4/4 | "Any writer, whether novelist, screenwriter, or short essayist worth their salt will kneel at the sharp edges of the script, both the paper itself and what’s printed on it." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B+ | "The dynamo of Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman can still shock and "wow" us into submission." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
3.5/4 | "The collaboration of Jonze's unorthodox direction and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's script hasn't been this delightfully solid since their surrealistic joyride in 1999's wonderfully erratic comedy Being John Malkovich." |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
C+ | "A thin, smug conceit, and one that gets more tired and exasperating as it goes along...clever, but in a juvenile, self-indulgent fashion." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
| "The best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
B- | "Kaufman's script is wildly imaginative but only intermittently entertaining, dredging up troubling questions about artistic responsibility that he ultimately doesn't answer." |
| Mixed Reviews |
| Gabriel Shanks |
3/4 | "I can't imagine Adaptation having much mainstream appeal, but, for those who look for something genuinely off-the-wall in a motion picture, this will unquestionably strike a nerve." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
4/4 | "an absurdist black comedy and brilliantly sustained meta-joke on the modern entertainment industry" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
5/5 | "The geniuses behind Being John Malkovich show brains -- and heart -- in a self-aware comedy about passion, love and survival." |
| Netflix |
| James Rocchi |
10/10 | "Great movie. It's hilarious and mind-boggling." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
4/5 | "[Charlie] Kaufman could have called this one Human Nature, too -- or A Phantasmagoria of Human Nature." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Jeremiah Kipp |
2/4 | "[Its] failure becomes most obvious in retrospect, when the realization dawns that the most affecting, inventive, and honest moments of the film were those that hewed most closely to the original text." |
| MovieMartyr.com |
| Jeremy Heilman |
7/10 | "Fun and decidedly offbeat, but probably not for everyone's tastes or liking." |
| Screen It! |
| Jim Judy |
8/10 | "... the most surreal motion picture experience since ... well, Being John Malkovich." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
4/4 | "It's almost mind-numbing to think how Mr. Kaufman could possibly follow-up this gem. I'm just glad I don't have to write it, but I'd be happy to watch what he goes through to create it." |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
A- | "But [Kaufman] finds a way to let the audience in on the joke by opening up a portal to his brain ..." |
| Old School Reviews |
| John A. Nesbit |
3/4 | "'Compleja e intelectualmente retadora, El Ladrón de Orquídeas es uno de esos filmes que vale la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad.'" |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
5/5 | "I loved it - I got on the phone to tell everyone to see it right when I left the theatre." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
3.5/4 | "Nicolas Cage and Nicolas Cage have great chemistry together!" |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
B+ | "Despite all of Kaufman's rage, he's still just a rat in a cage. But at least he's raging." |
| Countingdown.com |
| Larry Carroll |
9.5 | "Adaptation es una historia que mezcla de manera sublime el mundo real con el ficticio, las películas con los libros y los alter ego con la vida misma." |
| Cinenganos |
| Luis Martinez |
3/4 | "Part of me wants to acknowledge that Kaufman’s script is inherently lazy, but then I think... it’s more or less the work of a genius." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
8/10 | "Charlie Kaufman has in one stroke made
his the most recognizable screenwriter's name in
the country. This is the kind of
film that viewers can discuss for hours." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
3/4 | "Self-reference is one of the movie's strong suits, it's also a distraction" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "Kaufman lets is all out here, painful and raw, the battle creative people who’d actually like to make a living off their creative efforts fight between originality and commercialism." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
4/4 | "Thanks a lot, Charlie Kaufman. Thanks to you, I and millions of others can no longer use writer's block as a valid excuse for the sh*ttiness of our writing." |
| TheMovieReport.com |
| Michael Dequina |
2.5/5 | "Oh, I got it, all right. Maybe a little too well." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
4/4 | "I have a feeling that as I see this picture a few more times - which I absolutely will - it is going to take its place among my favorite films of all time." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
4.5/5 | "Like the last Jonze-Kaufman collaboration, this film is a mind-spinning and often hilarious examination of identity and connection, playing with the whole idea of cinema in such a way that it keeps us delightfully off balance." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
5/5 | "It will confound some and inspire others to riff endlessly on its mysteries." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
A | "Right up there with such movie industry insider classics as "The Player" and "Singing in the Rain."" |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
A | "“Adaptation” is a film buff’s dream." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
C+ | "Jonze and Kaufman’s imaginations may be limitless, but their film could use some intentional grounding." |
| Eclipse Magazine |
| Sean O'Connell |
D | "'It's narcissistic -- solipsistic… pathetic.' It's very important that Charlie say this, just as Woody Allen must constantly condemn himself in his movies, on the theory that whatever you do on purpose, or at least knowingly, is art." |
| Decent Films Guide |
| Steven D. Greydanus |
9/10 | "The unconventional, semi-real narrative structure is intricately woven and the acting is amazing." |
| www.susangranger.com |
| Susan Granger |
4/4 | "Provides a porthole into that noble, trembling incoherence that defines us all." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
3.5/4 | "The author of 'Being John Malkovich' takes us on a manic journey through the hazards of being true to yourself while being successful. Streep, Cage and Cooper are terrific." |
| Oscar Guy |
| Wesley Lovell |
| "Click here to see review" |
| Wolf Entertainment Guide |
| William Wolf |
A- | Read review |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
| Read review |
| Cinema Crazed |
| Felix Vasquez Jr. |
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OFCS Rating: 88% Fresh |
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