A non-autistic viewer ostensibly is meant... to come away from the film with a vague sense of "betterment."As an autistic viewer... I am left only with a renewed understanding that I am constructed, by a discursive web of popular media and pop-psychology.

| Jan 11, 2021

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Mayer combines a mild dose of humor with the distress of an unfortunate condition to create something extremely endearing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2010

Sure, it's complicated, but isn't that always true of romance? And doesn't it blow the hinges off the universe -- every single time?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2009

There's no getting around the character's plight as an eternal outsider or the natural sympathy it draws. But writer-director Mayer never loses control of this fact, offering a story that's both sweet and tart, unique and familiar.

| Original Score: B | Aug 21, 2009

It may not be original, but Adam could leave a lump in your throat.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2009

For much of its first hour, writer/director Max Mayer's Adam is one of the year's more endearing love stories.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 14, 2009

The two of them look terrific together, too -- enough so that you wish someone would cast them together in a much better movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2009

Were it not for the fine engaging performances of both Dancy and Byrne, Adam would be sickly sweet.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 7, 2009

A generally sweet story brought down by baffling screenwriting decisions and manipulative, mawkish, 온라인카지노추천-movie-of-the-week direction.

| Aug 7, 2009

Writer/director Max Mayer has crafted a sensitive, even lyrical, script that quickly makes us care about both of these characters.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 7, 2009

Written and directed by Max Mayer, this anodyne romantic comedy is as predictable as the alphabet but should hold particular appeal to women whose maternal impulses inflect their mating instincts.

| Aug 7, 2009

The film rides on Dancy's wonderfully authentic performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 7, 2009

At its best, Adam makes the viewer understand the frustration of living in a world in which everyone is a stranger.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2009

A very superficial look at what it may be like trying to romance someone on the autistic scale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2009

It feels dishonest, which is a problem for a film so interested in truthfulness - especially one trying to reconcile that interest with the demands of a Hollywood romcom.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2009

It's blandly inoffensive but also rather disingenuous, sidestepping the realities of Adam's condition by investing him with a convenient idiot savant gift for astrophysics and the eyes of a puppy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2009

Despite obvious good intentions, this feels dishonest, and I suspect not very true to life. Worst of all, it risks trivialising mental illness into lovable quirks.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2009

Dancy's Adam is so soulful, droopy and sad-eyed you suspect a misdiagnosis, while Byrne's alarming levels of undernourished passive aggression pass weirdly without comment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2009

Everyone dallies and dithers and radiates well-meaningly. This is mental illness served up for romcom pathos and sentimentality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2009