Mr. Elliott's story is not helped by James Franco, who plays him with his usual smug catatonia.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 21, 2016

"The Adderall Diaries" is a complex, absorbing, at times profound look at how we choose to remember our past.

| Apr 14, 2016

All affect and no personality.

| Apr 14, 2016

Writer-director Pamela Romanowsky, in her first feature, captures both fireworks and tragedy in go-for-broke scenes between Franco and Harris.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 14, 2016

The Adderall Diaries is about nothing but itself. It's not fiction, it's forgery. It's not adaptation, it's erasure.

| Original Score: D | Apr 14, 2016

The Adderall Diaries comes across as an incomplete jumble of colliding plot lines.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 14, 2016

A patchwork of narcissism that isn't stitched together all that well.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 14, 2016

Everything that happens in The Adderall Diaries is treated with the same weight, which is to say no weight at all.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 14, 2016

Franco seems the ideal interpreter of The Adderall Diaries, but he's reduced the memoirist's tough introspection to misery porn.

| Apr 14, 2016

It's too busy skipping through subplots to do much more than gloss over such heady issues as the fundamental subjectivity of truth and self-identity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 8, 2016

With its heavy image processing and injudicious use of slo-mo, there's a certain student-film quality to The Adderall Diaries that neither masters nor disciplines the complex, eccentric sprawl of the source material.

| Apr 5, 2016

Writing a first-person memoir about your own contradictory and troubled but fascinating personality, is starting to seem a lot easier than making a big-screen adaptation of someone else's.

| Apr 5, 2016

The style and tone of The Adderall Diaries is loose and free flowing, so that heavy subjects never feel heavy-handed in their treatment.

| Apr 5, 2016

Romanowksy has gamely hacked through Elliott's purposely messy and tangential material to craft a workable portrait of pain and addiction, one that's bizarrely entertaining even in its most brutal moments, good enough for at least one hit.

| Original Score: B | Apr 5, 2016

A tonally confused movie that lacks the bravado and grit of its source material. Committed performances from James Franco, Ed Harris, Amber Heard and Christian Slater can't save it.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 28, 2016