Top 10: The best adaptations reviewed by Film Excess to date

1. Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Coppola 

2. The Shining (1980) - Stanley Kubrick

3. The Big Sleep (1946) - Howard Hawks

4. Italian for Beginners/Italiensk for Begyndere (2000) - Lone Scherfig

5. Die Hard (1988) - John McTiernan

6. Coraline (2009) - Henry Selick 

7. The Chorus/Les Choristes (2004) - Christophe Barratier

8. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) - Andrew Adamson

9. House of Usher (1960) - Roger Corman

10. Barry Lyndon (1975) - Stanley Kubrick

Other great adaptations reviewed by Film Excess

Albert Nobbs (2011) 
The Bear/L'Ours (1988) 
The Beguiled (1971) 
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage/L'uccello Dalle Piume di Cristallo (1970) 
The Birds (1963) 
Blade Runner (1982) 
The Blue Angel/Der Blaue Engel (1930) 
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
The Boys in the Band (1970) 
Cape Fear (1962) 
Carlito's Way (1993) 
Carnage (2011) 
Carrie (1976) 
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) 
Charley Varrick (1973) 
Children of Men (2006) 
The Commitments (1991) 
The Constant Gardner (2005) 
The Homesman (2014) 
Manhunter (1986) 
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) 
The Notebook (2004) 
The Reader (2008) 

Good adaptations reviewed by Film Excess

1408 (2007) 
A Bridge Too Far (1977) 
A Most Wanted Man (2014) 
A Scanner Darkly (2006) 
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) 
Cimarron (1960) 
A Clockwork Orange (1971) 
A Single Man (2009) 
The Age of Innocence (1993)
The Beach (2000) 
The Call of the Wild (1972) 
Casino Royale (1967) 
Catch-22 (1970) 
Centennial (1978-79) 
Children of the Corn (1984) 
Christine (1983) 
The Class/Entre les Murs (2008) 
Closer (2004)  
Congo (1995) 
Crazy Heart (2009)
Dances with Wolves (1990) 
Dead Ringers (1988) 
The Human Beast/La Bête Humaine (1938)
Jack Reacher (2012) 
The Method/El Método (2005) 
The Name of the Rose (1986) 
The Paperboy (2012)
The Pledge (2001) 
The Sting (1973) 
Stolen Spring/Det Forsømte Forår (1993)
The Two Faces of January (2014)

Mediocre or poor adaptations reviewed by Film Excess

A Home at the End of the World (2004)
Alice in Wonderland (1999)
American Psycho (2000)
Bloodlust (1961) 
Body Snatchers (1993) 
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) 
Chocolat (2000) 
Cobra Verde/Slave Coast (1987) 
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) 
Derailed (2005) 
The Devil's Advocate (1997) 
The Dogs of War (1980) 
Dune (1984) 
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) 
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
John Carter (2012) 
John Dies at the End (2012) 
The Keeper of Lost Causes/Kvinden i Buret (2013) 
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) 
Odd Thomas (2013)
Pet Sematary (1989) 
Solaris (2002) 
Spider (2002) 
The Woman in Black (2012)

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