1. Anomalisa movie review & film summary (2015) - Roger Ebert
This is one of those movies which is so impactful that you feel the mood of each scene very intimately. You will feel uncomfortable, lonely, puzzled, hopefully ...
A midlife crisis drama, with puppets.
2. Anomalisa | Rotten Tomatoes
277 Reviews · Anomalisa Pictures · Anomalisa: Trailer 1
An inspirational speaker (David Thewlis) becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who shakes up his mundane existence.
3. Anomalisa review: a masterpiece about the human condition
10 mrt 2016 · It's an eerily detailed puppet animation about a motivational speaker who spends one unhappy night in a Cincinnati hotel. It is really funny, ...
Charlie Kaufman achieves further artistic greatness with this hilariously funny and horribly real animation about the unbearable loneliness of being
4. Anomalisa critic reviews - Metacritic
Anomalisa is an extraordinarily wise film about the reasons we turn to other people and the enormous difficulty of doing so.
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5. Film of the week: Anomalisa | Sight & Sound - BFI
11 mrt 2016 · A richly researched and rendered folkloric horror drama about Satanic goings-on amidst a family of Puritan settlers in seventeenth-century New ...
Aside from making the 2014 sitcom pilot How and Why, Charlie Kaufman has been missing in action since his directorial debut Synecdoche, New York seven years ago. The hiatus has scarcely diluted his authorial view that modern life is intolerable, a series of humiliating, futile quests to achieve material, artistic, romantic or spiritual goals likely to be impeded by the seeker’s maladaptive behaviour. Though fellow fatalists Woody Allen (when in Dostoevskian mode) and Todd Solondz occupy similar territory, the arrival of Kaufman’s stop-motion drama Anomalisa (co-directed by animation specialist Duke Johnson) reiterates the uniqueness of his surreally skewed metaphysical inquiries.
6. Anomalisa Movie Review | Common Sense Media
27 aug 2024 · Anomalisa is a stop-motion animated movie that's decidedly not for kids. It has a very graphic sex scene, with kissing, full-frontal nudity (male and female), ...
Existential, pessimistic animated movie is not for kids. Read Common Sense Media's Anomalisa review, age rating, and parents guide.
7. Film Review | Anomalisa (2015) - Alex Moreland | Writer
16 sep 2016 · I mean, take a look at the soundbites on the film's poster – it isn't just “perfect”, it's “a rare sliver of transcendence”. It's a “rare and ...
I think you’re extraordinary. I don’t know why yet. It’s just obvious to me that you are.
8. 'Anomalisa': An Agonizing Love Story, With Puppets - The Atlantic
8 jan 2016 · Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's animated film is a fascinating, difficult exploration of a man who can't relate to any other human beings.
Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s animated film is a fascinating, difficult exploration of a man who can’t relate to any other human beings.
9. Anomalisa Reviews - Metacritic
A disorienting puzzle of a movie with many exhilarating pieces, Anomalisa nevertheless maintains a straightforward trajectory involving Michael's internal ...
Michael Stone, an author of books on the subject of customer service, struggles to connect with people. One night, while on a routine business trip, he meets Lisa, a stranger with a unique voice.
10. Anomalisa (2015) - Review - Dagon Dogs
18 jan 2017 · If you couldn't tell from images or trailers, Anomalisa is a stop-motion movie with nothing but animatronic puppets. There are no live actors.
Originally published January, 2017 As soon as you see the first shot of a character in Charlie Kaufman's latest film, Anomalisa , you'll realize what makes this movie different. Kaufmen, known for his mind-manipulating movies Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich , wro
11. Review: In Anomalisa, Puppets Have Problems Too - Time
21 dec 2015 · But he's also a megalomaniac, a reality the film doesn't quite cop to: He doesn't recognize that every other human being is alone in his or her ...
Once you start reckoning with Anomalisa’s obsession with self-absorption, the novelty of this one-man pity party begins to wear off.
12. Anomalisa review – uncanny stop-motion - The Guardian
13 mrt 2016 · There's an uncomfortable intimacy to much of the drama, an element that makes Michael's creepy, predatory nature all the more unsettling.
Charlie Kaufman’s ingeniously animated tale of a man in midlife crisis doesn’t quite hold together
13. Film Review: 'Anomalisa' - Variety
5 sep 2015 · Film Review: 'Anomalisa' ... Charlie Kaufman teams with stop-motion whiz Duke Johnson to bring his conceptual stageplay to life, resulting in ...
A self-help speaker in crisis checks into a Cincinnati hotel for a night of soul-searching in this stop-motion dramedy from Charlie Kaufman.
14. Movie review: 'Anomalisa' a unique, entrancing, animated experience
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars ... Anyone familiar with the work of writer/director Charlie Kaufman would expect nothing less than Anomalisa (opening today). It's a ...
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes, Rated R Starring (voices of): David Thewlis, Tom Noonan, Jennifer Jason Leigh Written by Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich,...
15. ANOMALISA (2015) review - Keeping It Reel
7 jan 2016 · The film isn't necessarily profound, but it's nevertheless an intriguing effort and quite masterful on a technical level. It's hard to say how ...
written by: Charlie Kaufman produced by: Rosa Tran, Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman & Dino Stamatopoulos directed by: Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson rating: R (for strong sexual content, graph…
16. anomalisa movie - Deep Focus Review
12 jan 2016 · A story not unlike this one befalls the protagonist in Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa, only to the surreal and cerebral extreme audiences have come ...
Ever feel like you’re having the same conversation again and again but with different people? That identical conversation about the weather, the cur
17. 'Anomalisa': Review - Screen Daily
5 sep 2015 · Told thus, Anomalisa seems almost a short film, but the back-of-a-postcard storyline insulates Kaufman from the overweening ambition of ...
Dirs: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson. US, 2015, 90 mins
18. Anomalisa movie review: maximal mundanity - FlickFilosopher.com
25 feb 2016 · This one contains tons of bad language, realistic puppet nudity, and a fairly graphic scene in which realistically human puppets engage in one ...
An astonishing, even perception-altering experience that represents a startling use of animation to tell a story that no live-action film could tell.
