Click to viewSynecdoche, New York, the latest film from Charlie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” Kaufman, creates its own brand of magical realism crossed with science fiction. The tale of a ...

Kaufman's directorial debut and his most challenging, infuriating puzzle to date. It's the cinematic equivalent of something like the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus" or "Strawberry Fields Forever": The ...

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."-William Shakespeare, from As You Like It.

If movie awards were given out for ambition, Charlie Kaufman’s insanely twisted “Synecdoche, New York” would sweep every prize this year. We wouldn’t expect anything less from the screenwriter of ...

NB: The following contains spoilers for Synecdoche, New York. Caden Cotard wakes up with aching limbs to the sound of the television blaring, his four-year-old daughter yelling from the bathroom and ...

With Synecdoche, New York, the writer of the trippy Being John Malkovich takes us not inside the body of the eccentric actor but inside his own head for a couple of hours. But even fans of the ...

The very title Synecdoche, New York is off-putting. Like a genius lunatic wandering the streets, it seems to scream, “I’m weird and difficult! Stay away!” But I say, it’s weird and wonderful. Go!

Synecdoche, New York opens with a scene of finely observed domestic squalor. A suburban home rouses itself for the day. A middle-aged man declares “I don’t feel well” before sitting down to breakfast.