You never know how your favorite book will be portrayed on the big screen. It looks like the majority of this year’s current crop of films are getting good reviews from the critics. The following ratings come from metracritic.com. Now all I need is some popcorn.

Thumbs Up:

92 There Will Be Blood (Oil! by Upton Sinclair)

90 No Country for Old Men

89 Persepolis

85 Atonement interesting back story

76 The Rape of Europa

73 Into the Wild

72 Gone Baby Gone

72 Water Horse: Legend of the Deep

71 Harry Potter and the Order of the Green Phoenix

69 Charlie Wilson’s War

68 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

61 Kite Runner

61 The Jane Austin Book Club

Mixed:

51 The Golden Compass

48 Martian Child

42 Midnight Eagle (Intruder by Tetsuo Takashima)
Thumbs Down:

39 PS I Love You

38 One Missed Call