Synecdoche, New York

This bleak piece of over wrought crap is an embarrassment. The critics who are fawning over it are so full of themselves that they will actually dupe thousands into paying money to sit through this excruciatingly horrible film. Hollywood is so... Full review

This ranks below only one other movie I have seen (Eyes Wide Shut). Slow, slow, slow, no redeeming qualities. The acting might be good, but who cares??? I imagine if you are depressed and your life is pathetic, you might realate... Full review

It is very difficult to conceive of a movie much more complex than synecdoche. Yet, oddly, I have no desire to see it again just so that I might resolve something. Not because I disliked it, but because so many scenes... Full review

Though this movie was longer than necessary. it was a film that did hold my interest for nothing more than to see where it would go and end. Was I disappointed was I pleased ? I am not quite sure. I... Full review

take away the funeral scene where the preacher talks about our existence and you would not even know what this self indulgent abomination was about.... Full review

I'll keep this short (more than the writer of this movie did): boring, tedious, ridiculous. I didn't care about one single character in this overly long tale about a NY writer who can't seem to finish an absurdly-long story about his... Full review

Greetings again from the darkness. Sure I have struggled to write film comments for a day or two after seeing other movies. And yes, I have seen many films that were left wide open to interpretation, or even purposefully confusing. This... Full review

After a grueling 30 minutes, my partner and I turned to each other, then walked out, which we rarely do. I guess everyone else sat through another 100 minutes. Many critics loved it; we found it disgusting. Both of us were... Full review

First of all, do yourself a favor and consider not reading any further if you haven't seen this film; anything you know in advance is a spoiler. Now, having only seen it once myself, what follows are the initial thoughts and... Full review

I read a great review in the Wash Post, and for some reason I bought into the Wall Street Journal review that it was the best movie in 10 years. So did hundreds of folks who sold out 2 theaters in... Full review

The duo's comedic scenes are much more convincing than any of their romantic entanglements, but some unique qualities make this date movie actually enjoyable. While they seem to have great chemistry ... Full Review

Synecdoche, New York , might be easier to analyze than enjoy, easier to think about than feel. But Hoffman keeps the film from failing to reach us; he makes Caden a slumped ... Full Review

Cotard is a hypochondriac, compulsive director, working out of Schenectady, New York. Medicated to the gills for a variety of real and imagined health problems, Cotard feels the glimmers of a romantic spark with Hazel, the charming box office manager of the theatre, played by Samantha Morton. ... Full Review

So, with his nice new mogul-size bank account, he sets about to acquire a huge warehouse for his workspace and builds a life-size replica of New York in it. Nothing wrong here with the array of talent, aided and abetted by Frederick Elmes exemplary cinematography and suggestible music by Jon Brion. ... Full Review

There's a lot of stuff that goes on in this movie that is impossible,'' says Kaufman, adding that the 45-day shoot itself was barely achievable. ... Full Review

Watching "Synecdoche, New York," I tried to think of all the successful movies I could think of dealing with the subject of self-pity. It's not something that usually draws a huge crowd at the box office and if you're going... ... Full Article

Worry not, for the time being, about the definition, pronunciation, or meaning of "synecdoche."For the purposes of this review, this movie's title translates as only one thing: masterpiece. ... Full Article

R (language and some sexual content, nudity); 124 min. Charlie Kaufman may not be a household name, but over the past decade he has come about as close as any screenwriter gets to the level of fame reserved for our... ... Full Article

I can't pretend to know fully what Charlie Kaufman is up to in "Synecdoche, New York," with all the doubled characters, dreamy reenactments, comical minutiae, and personal unhappiness. ... Full Article

I n the signature Charlie Kaufman-scripted comedy "Being John Malkovich," viewers were invited to feel what it's like to be you-know-who.In "Synecdoche, New York," we are invited, I believe, to be Charlie Kaufman. ... Full Article