Synecdoche, New York
Catherine Keener, Dianne Wiest, Emily Watson
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, N.Y., is looking bleak. His wife Adele has left him to purs...( read more
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DVD Released: March 10, 2009
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June 27, 2009An excruciating labyrinth. Certainly a critic's spoiled rotten darling. Shows how intelligence and creativity can be channeled into a neurotic filmic nightmare. Insists that there is cause for desperation and fear but there really shouldn't be, there is no time for that. Which i... ...( read more )
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May 31, 2009Sufficiently and delightfully weird in that signature Charlie Kaufman way.
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May 31, 2009Undoubtedly a love-it-or-hate-it movie. And I'm definitely a "hate it" crowd. I'm guilty to not finding elements besides one or two that would keep me clinging onto this film. a surreal, over-the-top life viewed through the eyes of someone mildly psychotic and unstable. The lust ... ...( read more )
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May 1, 2009Many critics have been bashing Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut as lacking exactly that, a director. I disagree. I think Kaufman is more than able to hold a film together. Synecdoche, New York is bizarre, but no more so than Adaptation, Being John Malcovich, or Eternal Suns... ...( read more )
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April 10, 2009This movie seems to be enjoyed by the majority, but for me it's a disappointment. But I'll summarize the following review: if I had the privelege to attend the Cannes when this movie was screened, I would've been one of the many that booed "Synecdoche, New York".
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July 2, 2009Wow... Extremely thought provoking. It has the weird genius of a typical Charlie Kaufman film and the confusing symbolism of something David Lynch might have cooked up (although I found it slightly less abstract and more accessible than Lynch). Definitely going to be one of tho... ...( read more )
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December 17, 2008
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
November 20, 2008
Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com
You could quite possibly be enthralled -- or not. full review
November 14, 2008
Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle
Screenwriter Kaufman's first venture as a director is audacious, ambitious, amazing. It's also intricate, self-referencing, and all-encompassing. full review
November 14, 2008
Michael Sragow, The Baltimore Sun
As the movie rambles along with its own brand of quasi-magical surrealism, the links to real experience grow scarcer and more frayed. full review
November 10, 2008
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
I found it bracing, and genuinely in touch with the sweet chaos and ache of life. full review
November 7, 2008
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
I was struck by the peculiar magic of this film, even moved by it, once I gave up all attempts to understand it as a straightforward linear narrative. full review
November 7, 2008
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Synecdoche, New York comes as close as any film has to explaining the epic indignity of the creative process, how some great works collapse beneath their own abstraction. full review
November 6, 2008
Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com
Kaufman's directorial debut is a piece of performance art that drips with intangible meaning, but lacks any sort of drive that compels the viewer to invest in this punishing two hours of furious artis... full review
November 6, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
This is a film with the richness of great fiction. full review
October 31, 2008
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
It's all crazy enough to work for a while, but the 124 long minutes don't pass soon enough. full review
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May 1, 2009" I know how to do it now. There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due."
one of the best films ever made. i'm amazed by charle kaufman's writing & directing
hands down "THE BEST FILM EVER MADE"
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