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Anomalisa marks another brilliant and utterly distinctive highlight in Charlie Kaufman's filmography, and a thought-provoking treat for fans of introspective cinema.
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I've seen it thrice. It has not palled. Mar 14, 2016 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
I've seen it thrice. It has not palled.
David Sexton
Intricately, brilliantly, tragically solipsistic. Mar 10, 2016 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Intricately, brilliantly, tragically solipsistic.
Sophie Monks Kaufman
The hell of other people fuses with the hell of loneliness in this strange miniature masterpiece from Charlie Kaufman. Mar 10, 2016 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
The hell of other people fuses with the hell of loneliness in this strange miniature masterpiece from Charlie Kaufman.
Peter Bradshaw
The film refuses to settle on one interpretation, instead opening up a space for larger philosophical questions. Feb 10, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The film refuses to settle on one interpretation, instead opening up a space for larger philosophical questions.
Jake Wilson
Charlie Kaufman's animated feature is one of his best films yet, a haunting fable about the illusion of love. Jan 29, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Charlie Kaufman's animated feature is one of his best films yet, a haunting fable about the illusion of love.
Rafer Guzman
Kaufman's script stings with uncomfortable truths, but doesn't do much else. Kaufman's medium has changed but his message is still the same. Jan 22, 2016 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Kaufman's script stings with uncomfortable truths, but doesn't do much else. Kaufman's medium has changed but his message is still the same.
Adam Graham
Fun, no. Compelling, yes. Anomalisa is filled with more longing and palpable loneliness than many other live action films registered this year. Apr 17, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Fun, no. Compelling, yes. Anomalisa is filled with more longing and palpable loneliness than many other live action films registered this year.
Julie Crawford
A somewhat cynical yet thought provoking stop motion animated film. Apr 15, 2019 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
A somewhat cynical yet thought provoking stop motion animated film.
Rachel Wagner
A late-breaking dream sequence is perhaps a slice of Kaufman too far, threatening to derail this beautiful journey through its sheer lack of subtlety - thankfully though, a compelling, hugely affecting final sequence brings it all back with panache. Apr 9, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
A late-breaking dream sequence is perhaps a slice of Kaufman too far, threatening to derail this beautiful journey through its sheer lack of subtlety - thankfully though, a compelling, hugely affecting final sequence brings it all back with panache.
Calum Baker
In choosing a medium that distances audience from onscreen subject, Kaufman has drawn the two closer together, telling a universal human story with puppets. Apr 8, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
In choosing a medium that distances audience from onscreen subject, Kaufman has drawn the two closer together, telling a universal human story with puppets.
Matthew Anderson
Anomalisa might be bizarre, surreal and far out, but it always feels paradoxically real, grounded and deeply true. Apr 8, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Anomalisa might be bizarre, surreal and far out, but it always feels paradoxically real, grounded and deeply true.
John Bleasdale
Even if you're used to Kaufman's quirks, Anomalisa will still be unlike anything you've ever seen before. Mar 2, 2019 | Full Review…
Even if you're used to Kaufman's quirks, Anomalisa will still be unlike anything you've ever seen before.
Amie Simon
A very human and delicate look at loneliness, told as a stop-motion animation that feels like the perfect choice for this kind of story, with waxy characters that are all (but two) voiced by the same person; it is just a pity, though, that the end feels a bit abrupt.
Super Reviewer
The concept of the movie provides the extra half star. I loved the powerful concept which manifests itself in many of our lives. It's thought provoking and interesting but for me lacks something to make it more entertaining!
I'm not a fan of stop-motion puppetry, but this eerie and tender film about loneliness and connection is a feat in animation and storytelling: from all the secondary characters being played by reedy-voiced Tom Noonan, to Jennifer Jason Leigh's elegaic rendition of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," from the discomfitingly realistic puppet sex, to the hallucinatory flashes of robotic wiring underneath Michael's humanoid casing - foreshadowing the film's ultimate thesis about the inexorable fade of love, individuality, and will.
Michael Stone is famous for his book about how to treat people like people, an icon of the customer service world, and about to give a speech about just that, except that he's feels as if he's cut off from all life himself. Everyone sounds the same, looks the same. Its like he's the only real person on Earth. Charlie Kaufman's consideration on being may be inconclusive but still attention worthy.
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