Adam

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.

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

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?

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.

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

One of the best performances of 2009 is unfortunately contained within a movie that doesn’t live up to the acting.

It's easy to understand why Fox Searchlight was interested in this light, quirky little love story with a good heart and gentle spirit.

Hugh Dancy and Rose Byme share a quirky chemistry reminiscent of the early sketch-humor of Mike Nichols and Elaine May.

Adam is a serviceable, but ultimately unsatisfying character study and sometimes romance that strikes too many familiar chords.