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Anomalisa

2015

Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson

Animation, Voice: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan, David Thewlis

6.9

11,984

Animation. Drama. Comedy Michael Stone, an author of books on the subject of customer service, struggle with his inability to connect to people. One night, while on a routine business trip, he meets a stranger who changes his world view.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	“Anomalisa’s existence is a minor miracle on multiple levels, from the Kickstarter campaign that funded it to the oh-so-delicate way the film creeps up on you, transitioning from a low-key dark night of the soul into something warm, human and surprisingly tender"	POS
United Kingdom	Catherine Shoard The Guardian	"A future classic (...) Anomalisa might just make the first R-rated best animation Oscar winner (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Rodrigo Perez IndieWire	“'Anomalisa' will seem bizarre and enigmatic on the surface to some viewers (...) But once you've adjusted to its off-kilter rhythms, the movie is a relatively clear-eyed picture about grappling with the anxieties of life, our struggles to connect and find happiness, and the personal dilemmas"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A unique reflection on love, pain and loneliness (...) Kaufman and Johnson create a vivid, dismally relatable world here, both droll and dreary, but fascinating precisely because of its numbing banality"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Filtered through Kaufman's searching mind and soulful brilliance, the result is a masterpiece. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"You hear people grumble about the originality/quality of the movies these days, but these same people ignore the offerings that don’t have huge marketing budget(...) 'Anomalisa,' (...) is something marvelously different (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"A bracing, wry, honest dose of cinematic melancholy"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"While 'Anomalisa' is filled with uncomfortably, at times sourly humorous moments, it's also a horror movie about the agonizing, banal surrealism of everyday life"	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"Even if it takes a little time to settle into Anomalisa’s disorienting, herky-jerky groove, Kaufman ends up bewitching us with his fresh take on the oldest and most hackneyed of cinematic themes: boy meets girl…and anxiety ensues"	POS

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