The Adderall Diaries
critic Reviews
, 26% Rotten Tomatometer Score- Stylistically overwrought and tedious, The Adderal Diaries aspires for profundity but instead feels like a shambolic class project thrown together right before it was due.
- , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreRex ReedObserver
Mr. Elliott's story is not helped by James Franco, who plays him with his usual smug catatonia.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreGary GoldsteinLos Angeles Times
"The Adderall Diaries" is a complex, absorbing, at times profound look at how we choose to remember our past.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreJeannette CatsoulisNew York Times
All affect and no personality.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreTom KeoghSeattle Times
Writer-director Pamela Romanowsky, in her first feature, captures both fireworks and tragedy in go-for-broke scenes between Franco and Harris.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreDavid EhrlichIndieWire
The Adderall Diaries is about nothing but itself. It's not fiction, it's forgery. It's not adaptation, it's erasure.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreRichard RoeperChicago Sun-Times
The Adderall Diaries comes across as an incomplete jumble of colliding plot lines.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRichard PropesTheIndependentCritic.com
The Adderall Diaries is possessing of a unique, challenging vision.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDebbie Lynn EliasBehind The Lens
[James Franco] shines, mesmerizing us... Smoldering with a questioning intensity...[he] excels with the raw edginess.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreAllison RoseFlickDirect
With terrific source material, The Adderall Diaries should have been a deeply moving introspective look at various views of the same memories, but, sadly, falls short.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreJames ClayFresh Fiction
It's truly hard to tell if this is satire or in earnest.
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