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Dec 29, 2015 · It might sound strange to say, but this puppet movie gives you a more accurate sense of what it's like to spend a few days in a nice hotel in a city of bad memories than most live-action films ever do—not that that's necessarily the kind of description that will make people want to rush out and see "Anomalisa."
Mar 10, 2016 · Anomalisa review: a masterpiece about the human condition – with puppets | Anomalisa | The Guardian. ‘Anomalisa is about the mysterious prison of identity and consciousness, the need to be...
- Peter Bradshaw
- 3 min
Tomatometer 276 Reviews. 71% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings. What to know. Critics Consensus. Anomalisa marks another brilliant and utterly distinctive highlight in Charlie Kaufman's...
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- Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
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- Charlie Kaufman makes the foray into animation with this brilliant, engrossing feature.
- Verdict
By Josh Lasser
Updated: Apr 30, 2019 8:41 pm
Posted: Jan 4, 2016 11:11 pm
Quite regularly there are animated movies released that are fun for children; slightly less regularly there are animated movies that adults can enjoy as much as children; and then, very rarely, there are animated movies made solely for adults. The utterly wonderful stop-motion Anomalisa falls into this last category.
Directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, with a screenplay by Kaufman, Anomalisa is the story of one man's trip to Cincinnati. The man, Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis), is in town for one night to speak at a customer service convention the next day. Michael has an interesting issue – everyone around him looks and sounds similar.
It is a funny prospect for the audience, and there is a lot of humor in the movie generated by it, but we can also feel Michael's fear as well. As an audience we know that the reason everyone looks and sounds similar is because they are all voiced by Tom Noonan and created by the filmmakers to look alike. Michael, however, has no idea what is going on. It is something that seems to have been his norm for a while now, but not something that he understands.
Charlie Kaufman's movies ask us all to think about who we are, the world we live in, and just why we do what we do and this one is no different. Anomalisa takes a small story about one man spending one night in Cincinnati and through it opens our eyes to the choices we make in life. Among other things, it questions whether we differentiate the peop...
Dec 29, 2015 · 1h 30m. By Manohla Dargis. Dec. 29, 2015. The sad and stingingly painful “Anomalisa,” a beautiful big-screen whatsit, features a throng of whiners, malcontents and depressives along with one...
- Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman
- Manohla Dargis
- 90 min
Dec 30, 2015 · Anomalisa. Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 46 Critic Reviews. 88. User Score Generally Favorable Based on 333 User Ratings. 7.5. My Score. Hover and click to give a rating. Add My Review. Where to Watch. Amazon ($2.99) All Watch Options. View All. David Thewlis. Michael Stone. Jennifer Jason Leigh. Lisa Hesselman. Tom Noonan. Everyone else.
Anomalisa Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson. Examining "Anomalisa" for the romance and humanity is more arduous than...
