Anomalisa

Charlie Kaufman's animated feature is one of his best films yet, a haunting fable about the illusion of love.

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.

What drives the film is a scowling suspicion that modern man is a mechanized being, created as if on an assembly line, and stripped bare of individuality-a product, like any other merchandise.

A very fine portrait of the despair at the heart of a comfortable middle-aged white man in America circa right about now.

Whether Michael Stone has really turned a corner in his life, or merely enjoyed a brief distraction from all that troubles him, is left unresolved at Anomalisa's conclusion, but this much is certain: The audience won't soon forget what it has experienced.

Kaufman, the mind behind "Being John Malkovich" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," possesses an artistic sensibility unlike any other filmmaker working today. That sensibility informs every word and frame of "Anomalisa" ...

A darkly reflective film that doesn't stagnate in pessimism, a creation full of potential readings that translates into a unique visual and sonorous experience. [Full review in Spanish]

It's emotionally intense and wonderfully internal.

The brilliant Charlie Kaufman makes a very welcome return to our screens, co-directing his own script with Duke Johnson, in this haunting and humorous stop-motion treatise on human relationships.

This is the easiest of all Kaufman's projects to understand, and perhaps for that reason, just possibly the best.

It's weird and brilliant and heartbreaking and unlike anything you've ever seen.

Touching but transitory.