![]() Their conversations on the road play out as the sort of intellectual banter that can be unbearable. Get news and entertainment delivered to your inbox: Sign up for our daily newsletterĪ young woman (Jessie Buckley) is taking a road trip with her new boyfriend, Jake (Jesse Plemons), to his family farm where she will meet his parents for the first time. In her internal dialogue (and the title of the movie), we learn that she’s having second thoughts about the direction this relationship is going, and she questions taking this step. I’ve loved Kaufman’s previously divisive movies, so count me in. ![]() But there’s beauty in the bleakness as Kaufman uses the source novel as a jumping-off point for his own exploration of aging, death, loneliness and the fragile string of sanity. Is it the most uplifting experience you’ll have? Oh, hell no. But what did you expect from a Charlie Kaufman film? Five years after his last film, the stop-motion animated “Anomalisa,” Kaufman returns with a Netflix exclusive that doesn’t see the writer-director toning down anything for a mass audience. It could be one of the most divisive movies of the year. “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” will not be a unifying moment. It seems like a year ago when we had the unifying experience of “Tiger King” (still perhaps the quintessential moment of pandemic viewing. As we remain largely homebound, the collective movie experiences we’re having involve new releases on the large streaming services.
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