I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
An unexpected detour causes a woman who is trying to figure out how to break up with her boyfriend to rethink her life.
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Directed By: Charlie Kaufman
Written By: Charlie Kaufman, Iain Reid
Starring: Toni Collette, David Thewlis, Jesse Plemons, Colby Minifie, Jason Ralph, Jessie Buckley, Abby Quinn
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things belongs to 12 collections
1. Based On A Book (public: moderated by Spunkie - 18 stars)
2. Based On Novel (public: moderated by tathiel - 7 stars)
3. Film Titles That Are Complete Sentences (public: moderated by Maaxwell - 4 stars)
4. Netflix Original Movies (public: moderated by NhanLa - 3 stars)
5. Availability: Netflix Canada (public: moderated by geohawk - 2 stars)
6. Films available in HD (supplement) (public: moderated by Jorg - 1 star)
7. Watched in 2020 (public: moderated by td85)
8. Djross English-language feature film of the year (private: djross - 2 stars)
9. Djross read the book and saw the movie (private: djross)
10. 2020 (private: sproost)
11. Djross 2020 top ten (incomplete) (private: djross)
12. Djross top ten movies first watched on Netflix (private: djross)
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CoffeeMage | 82 81% |
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Vassago | 71 58% |
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nata | 90 68% |
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sebby | 60 44% |
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nev | 68 35% |
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| Oct 17 | vicallas | 75 42% |
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pmpfe | 94 92% |
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mike365365 | 54 22% |
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I think the director needs to stick to writing.
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| Oct 16 |  |
IlPara | 80 73% |
| Oct 16 | dogeatmoon | 84 86% |
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The ending keeps me coming back to this. By no means Kaufman's best, but it's still excellent.
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| Oct 15 | pyromaniac | 8 58% |
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| Oct 15 | ElmAy | 87 68% |
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Good. Gets even better on subsequent views.
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| Oct 15 | palfi | 70 50% |
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| Oct 15 | q18PxZ | 70 0% |
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| Oct 15 | skotti85 | 78 60% |
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| Oct 15 | Captn | 90 62% |
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Carlospro | 20 0% |
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nossa, que catástrofe
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FancyClown | 80 74% |
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| Oct 11 | doyler29 | 90 84% |
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| Oct 11 |  |
RuruSmasher | 80 36% |
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You know what? I've been a fan of Kaufman's since Human Nature and I drank in all his mindfuckery, but fuck you, Kaufman. Spoiler alert: I balk at the spending 90% of the film in a woman's POV and then it turns out he created her out of his ball of insecurities? I completely hate that. I completely hate feeling screwed over like this. Is it well made? It is super well made and it holds up, but I really hate the manipulative aspect of it.
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zmt311 | 64 34% |
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| Oct 09 | cloondog | 70 79% |
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beware | 59 14% |
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mindvr | 40 18% |
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Boring as hell.
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| Oct 08 | Darkone55 | 79 71% |
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KenMeisters | 79 85% |
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wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd. but good.
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| Oct 08 | duyguyazgin | 30 2% |
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sproost | 90 97% |
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HKi | 67 41% |
| Oct 07 | Antoine | 68 33% |
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| Oct 07 | vgnpwrz | 72 73% |
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| Oct 06 |  |
jphilade | 70 34% |
| Oct 06 |  |
Snufkin88 | 70 32% |
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If you haven't read the book, the first 40 minutes of this film are some of the most uncomfortable, unsettling, and nerve-wracking minutes of cinema you will ever witness. Once the film then turns into a 'is any of this really real?' kind of picture then the tension is lifted and the effect it has on you turns from gripping to.....confusing.
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Challe_P | 80 77% |
| Oct 06 | Philosofem | 72 52% |
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Uatu | 4 91% |
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| Oct 05 | woodendoors | 70 16% |
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Unique but boring.
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| Oct 04 |  |
frknerkn | 65 32% |
| Oct 04 |  |
redboots | 40 6% |
| Oct 04 |  |
ienjoycinema | 73 46% |
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You knew Kaufman's lovable sprinklings of pretentiousness would be here, but it seems the lid on Kaufman's sprinkles fell off this time around. I appreciate the effort made in tackling existential heaviness, but I can't help assuming it's source material explores those deep questions with greater skill. By the end of the third act you're left sitting there feeling like you've been edged for two hours with no payoff. There IS substance here, it's just half an inch deep and spread a mile wide.
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| Oct 03 | dasMaymay | 67 53% |
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Feels a lot like it's written for me and people like me. There are many moments of legitimate depth and insight and sadness, but it is also quite slow and wordy and self-indulgent (this is particularly true of the first half). Strong acting, especially by Jessie Buckley.
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Derek_ | 35 26% |
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meduolis | 72 47% |
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acrolyne | 86 74% |
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Melhouse | 81 64% |
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| Oct 02 | filmfan | 58 27% |
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| Oct 02 | Kallikantza | 90 89% |
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ribcage | 80 77% |
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Time, dreams, art, insecurities, movies, fantasy, love, existential loneliness all swirl and spiral, cascading over and around each other. Logic is excused from the room, I'm Thinking of Ending Things operates on a universally instinctual level. This is a bleak, depressing film. However, there is a sympathy in its telling, an unspoken hope that, though your suffering is peculiar to you and no one will ever really know it, you are not alone in suffering. We all suffer. Alone and together.
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| Oct 02 |  |
Henrik | 80 80% |
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eCitizen | 40 33% |
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A somewhat interesting movie that became annoying and eventually intolerable about the time they started dancing. It plays out like a confusing nightmare. If you try to make sense of this, your head will explode. By the time the cartoons start, it has gone deep into crazy town. This must be what it's like to lose your mind. The final act is batshit crazy and whack-a-doodle weird. Possibly worth watching if you can accept the insanity of it. Overall, I'm not impressed. The ending really sucked.
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| Oct 01 |  |
hulot | 30 28% |
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zairakas | 80 87% |
| Sep 30 | Neveryan | 83 74% |
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| Sep 30 | Old_Spriggan | 85 97% |
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| Sep 30 | colmener2 | 70 60% |
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| Sep 30 | colmener | 70 55% |
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Pietayse | 40 5% |
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Mr.Cinema | 78 96% |
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What a Briliant Work!!! a Complicated Philosophical & psychological thriller!! perfect directing + excelent acting + great Script + high standard works = Art Work
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SPM_Liam | 70 41% |
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__s3kai__ | 90 70% |
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Asm Nabil | 80 74% |
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overrated | 57 55% |
| Sep 29 | Malcym | 4 16% |
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| Sep 28 |  |
Adam P-D | 60 70% |
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I agree with every review that I've read here, the low ratings and the high ones. I expect I might get more out of this movie if I re-watch after reading an essay on it but life's too short. Love + Hate = Average Rating.
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| Sep 28 |  |
payami | 65 12% |
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Ariaz | 85 87% |
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roozbeh_13 | 85 88% |
| Sep 28 | GknGnd | 65 20% |
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mnzeric | 6 64% |
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elifdusova | 73 16% |
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| Sep 27 | RaggedFlygon | 80 65% |
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| Sep 27 |  |
Ozcan | 75 25% |
| Sep 27 |  |
JSchlansky | 84 85% |
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Kaufman's shift from dream logic to nightmare logic
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| Sep 27 |  |
Scarface | 69 49% |
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iqcumber | 85 86% |
| Sep 27 | nunof | 86 96% |
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| Sep 27 | Sylens | 80 0% |
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ltjjj89 | 43 17% |
| Sep 27 |  |
Anomaly | 46 15% |
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Why yes Kaufman, stretching things out a little too long DOES make things seem weird! A disaster of pacing and character to such an extent it's making me question how much I liked Kaufman's previous films, something I did not expect going in. Perhaps he needs a producer to tell him no? It's hollow philosophizing about a hollow life that becomes quite obvious and tired after about half an hour. And if the events proper won't put you to sleep, listening to Pauline Kael's writing sure will.
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| Sep 27 |  |
Diamorphoses | 85 86% |
| Sep 26 | elWY4U | 8 55% |
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| Sep 26 | CarsonWid | 74 70% |
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| Sep 26 | Sinc Q | 76 8% |
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RTAudience | 48 39% |
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ezgiozk | 50 5% |
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erkayama | 80 77% |
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Valdac | 50 35% |
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HartPURO | 75 49% |
| Sep 24 |  |
Teovern | 54 27% |
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Kuroel | 47 19% |
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Not enough breadcrumbs to go by. I don’t mind meta or subtext. But when the whole structure is referential monologuing it becomes tedious onanotary exercise of vapidness. Words lose meaning if they have no ground. They float aimlessly. You can pull out your Thesaurus and make a RNG script based on it, with quotes by writers and poets past. That doesn’t require talent. Cohesion does.
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| Sep 24 |  |
le mami | 75 73% |
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I will watch it again
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| Sep 24 |  |
cankutozturk | 70 14% |
| Sep 24 |  |
serhatisique | 85 84% |
| Sep 24 |  |
nothings | 72 66% |
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ilkyaz | 80 76% |
| Sep 23 | mrubinos | 57 31% |
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| Sep 23 | JZ17 | 85 73% |
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| Sep 23 | Diyavol | 80 66% |
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volkanya | 4 2% |
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m_fkocaaslan | 75 53% |
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| Sep 22 |  |
TrueAgus | 78 51% |
| Sep 22 | buffyangel | 54 14% |
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| Sep 22 |  |
CMonster | 72 53% |
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Kaufman makes really good dramas that always have an edge of humor that makes me lau-I'M GONNA SLIT MY FUCKING WRISTS!
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| Sep 22 | k.p. | 75 32% |
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| Sep 22 | JLCME20 | 85 82% |
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| Sep 22 | ExcessStarch | 65 85% |
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| Sep 22 | newwilli | 80 56% |
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TFreyre23 | 60 21% |
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gulnur | 63 23% |
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| Sep 21 | jonzuckerman | 75 64% |
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Hadzibegovic | 60 22% |
| Sep 21 | ozonepaul | 82 33% |
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"The question is more, not do we understand it but do we care?...I think it's inventive, adventurous, I also think it's kind of impenetrable and at times kind of infuriating because at times it plays like an audio-book with pictures...I wish I liked it more...a film critics darling...it's intensely annoying..." kermodeandmayo
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| Sep 21 | Salome96 | 5 50% |
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Yasbane | 50 43% |
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ott | 60 39% |
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very unnecessary "act" of the third act
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cherrorist | 77 52% |
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A bit of Kafka and a bit of modernized Lynch, which is not a bad thing but it left me missing the earlier Kaufman. Works great until the school sequence where it breaks apart some and doesn't really end up anywhere.
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| Sep 20 | lefterisd99 | 80 77% |
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vordven | 60 31% |
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| Sep 20 | shaghaa | 74 26% |
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loc42 | 40 19% |
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"Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer." (Nietzsche, Gay Science)
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EvilMangoes | 78 48% |
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murtyrock | 80 86% |
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obtiosov | 75 56% |
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parastood | 85 46% |
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jeff_v | 75 81% |
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Ryderlol | 60 39% |
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Neonman | 84 76% |
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Having seen this twice, once whilst knowing fuck-all about it and again whilst knowing about the narrative trickery within, I can safely say this film has ruined my life. It's made up of long dialogue scenes between people who don't want to talk to each other, working brilliantly at that, and the surreal passages (Eva HD poem, Pauline Kael review) would fall on their face if it weren't for the slippery nature of identity here. Very weird, utterly oppressive, and also miserable -- I like.
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| Sep 18 |  |
pluviophile | 85 83% |
| Sep 18 |  |
sepid | 85 67% |
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psim | 85 91% |
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If you've seen a few of Kaufman's movies you might have an idea of what you're in for with this one, but his signature combination of weirdness, hilarity and utter depression will never cease to leave an impression.
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uvlalid | 85 90% |
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hubies | 72 65% |
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mattorama12 | 65 50% |
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Melancholy is one of my least favorite feelings. So how you do rate a film that so successfully achieves its goal of making you feel melancholy? In any event, there's so much great stuff here, but the car scenes and the ending (interpretive dance and on) just really dragged.
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| Sep 17 | jkmoney04 | 21 2% |
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alexandrsaar | 76 46% |
| Sep 17 | Ajayw | 77 72% |
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An exceptional script and equally impressive performances make this beautifully stylized film a work of art. Apart from a couple of 5-10 minute stretches of slow pacing, the film will have you engaged or scratching your head throughout. I would recommend no less than 3 viewings to develop your own interpretation before seeking out fan theories. I've still yet to determine whether or not the story works for me, because I still haven't figured it out.
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| Sep 17 | NevinLiu | 68 26% |
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orkunersin | 65 40% |
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tetcyo | 60 14% |
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brkshn | 85 84% |
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chiefg | 45 24% |
| Sep 16 | Sadman | 80 62% |
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I came to this thinking there was a puzzle I needed to solve, that there was some big twist. That Kaufman was here to dazzle, like a Nolan or a Villeneuve. That made my viewing experience somewhat tedious and unrewarding but that was the wrong approach. While there is a "twist" of sorts, it's not interesting in it's ingenuity but in how it casts the whole movie in a different light. Once done, this turns it into a great character study that awards and encourages deep analysis.
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| Sep 16 |  |
EmreZabun3 | 74 61% |
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xybydy | 75 65% |
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| Sep 16 | anthropoloks | 85 88% |
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careunicorn | 91 95% |
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ylajali | 68 66% |
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volken | 72 26% |
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felipelahm | 30 6% |
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It's amazing how Kaufman keeps getting worse as a director. This feels like a post-horror version of his rambling, self-loathing about aging.
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| Sep 15 | cfkloss | 6 28% |
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plynthe | 92 67% |
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sergebarber | 50 36% |
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adrenaline | 80 87% |
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mrsdalloway | 60 43% |
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Aras | 70 34% |
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Charlie | 55 22% |
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thesuburbs | 80 76% |
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didem | 84 81% |
| Sep 14 | TheMooseman | 48 96% |
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halmic94 | 70 36% |
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aurora | 69 67% |
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DonKhan | 8 74% |
| Sep 14 |  |
Leonardis | 94 82% |
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Much like Adaptation., Kaufman doesn’t explain directly what is going on and trusts that the viewer will be patient with his style of storytelling. This may be the most Charlie Kaufman thing I’ve seen. It’s just so weird. That being said, the acting is solid and I for one thought there was quite a bit to unpack here by the end. The two car scenes drag a bit, but it’s an otherwise fascinating story. Strange, absurdly funny, depressing, told in a way only this writer can. I loved it.
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