Synecdoche, New York

this is probably the worst movie i have seen in many years. toward the end i wished they all would die so i could go home. the reviewers that gave excellent reviews should be drawn and quartered. it seems when a... Full review

Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut is simply brilliant. If you love Kaufman's style of character exploration and human expression this movie will have your brain thinking weeks beyond seeing it.... Full review

The first time I saw this film I thought it was one of the best American film I've seen in a few years, but the second time it lost some of it's power. I still think this is a very good... Full review

Don't tell anyone that the emporor has no clothes, but if this isn't vapid pretentiousness defined, there is no such thing as a pretentious piece of @#$*... Full review

This was a confusing and discouraging story. I can not imagine why, if someone led such a sad and lonely life, he would want anyone else to have to share his misery. He must think he is so special and his... Full review

The movie was a little longer than necessary but is absolutley worth the $10 ticket price. Its an emotional, time traveling examination of what it means to be human- to live, to love and to die. A beautiful movie to share... Full review

Save your money and 2 hours of your time-DON'T GO SEE THIS MOVIE! It is horrible, no plot, dark, depressing sets, AWFUL. This writer should be ashamed of himself. How does garbage like this get made? Everyone in the theatre wanted... Full review

This is one of the worst films I have ever sat through. My wife and daughter agreed. We read the five star ratings from just about every critic and couldn't believe their "out-of-touch" "trying hard to be sophisticated" commentaries. This movie... Full review

This movie is so hard to understand from beginning to end with all its mixed messages. From life to death and everything in between of a sick man trying desperately to find his nitch in the sceem of things but always... Full review

...and I literally mean that....WTF???? This has got to be THE single most WEIRD film I've ever seen in my entire life. It was so strange in fact, that I couldn't wait for it to end, even though I'm a big... Full review

Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut stars Philip Seymour Hoffman (opposite a raft of female talent) as an anxious theatre director who builds a set in a hangar....Synecdoche, New York is a beautiful, overblown head-fuck..... ... Full Review

Charlie Kaufman's great warehouse experiment....the film's lugubriousness would be unbearable....Like Ulysses, another work with a congested twenty-four-hour time-frame, the film is frequently very funny about the contingency of meaning and reference.....Despite being in a miserable physical condition which only gets worse as the film progresses, Caden has serious relationships with three attractive women -....while his moronic twin, Donald, is praised for his multiple-personality serial-killer script..... ... Full Review

find the film both poetic and profound.....It is not that Kaufman is pretentious;....I loved the first half of the film....Then there are two adoring actresses -....Stricter editing of that puzzling second half might have made it more like the masterpiece some think it..... ... Full Review

Kaufman all but dares his detractors to hate this film....hate it they have:.... ... Full Review

In this stunningly ambitious, slyly witty and deeply affecting tale, Philip Seymour Hoffman's hero is indeed "hurtling towards death" -....a fear Kaufman renders terrifyingly tangible by editing scenes that are often years apart into a continuous, flowing narrative..... ... Full Review

Few things are more exciting than listening to Billy Corgan and David Byrne talk about late psychologist Carl Jung, right? Right? The two musicians will be part of an upcoming series on Jung's Red Book at New York City's Rubin... ... Full Article

Synecdoche, New York, Revolver Entertainment, 15, ?15.99 By LARUSHKA IVAN-ZADEH - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Synecdoche, New York Like his first, more accessible, scripted film, Being John Malkovich, at heart it's a gloriously immersive tumble inside another man's brain. ... Full Article

After penning the most inventive, mind-warping screenplays of our time, the expectations for Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut are comparable on a much smaller scale to those of our current President. ... Full Article

Back in April, I wrote an " Adapt This " column recommending that a studio adapt Alex Robinson's time-travel story "Too Cool To Be Forgotten" for the big screen. ... Full Article

Caden is a recently popular first name in the States, possibly deriving from the Gaelic for "battle". Cotard's Syndrome, named after a 19th-century French neurologist, is a neuropsychiatric condition in which the patient believes he is dead, does not exist... ... Full Article

Cert 12, 124mins, 3/5 Charlie Kaufman's follow-up to Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is guaranteed to make your brain ache and eyes bleed. Pronounced sih-neck-doh-kee, it's a cerebral, smart and downright surreal trip into the far reaches of the... ... Full Article