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- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: Johnson and Kaufman adapt what was once a live radio play into a stop-motion animation story of first flush of infatuation, when everything about another person is simply extraordinary, and the role delusion and self-sabotage play in breaking that illusion. Kaufman’s script is a remarkable balancing act, in which banal chatter takes on the scope and importance of grand opera, conveying how an average person in an average place can lead what amounts to a life of quiet resignation.
- Matt Brown @ TwitchFilm
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: Vivid and creative view of the harm, loneliness, and pain brought into the world by mental illness.
- Francisco Cangiano @ CineXpress [Spanish]
- Robert Cashill @ Popdose.com
- Bill Clark @ From The Balcony
- Excerpt: Anomalisa embodies what we’ve come to expect from Kaufman: a venture into the strange while somehow staying grounded in reality. Just like life.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …not only the best animation of 2015, it is one of the best movies of the year.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Whatever Anomalisa is might be just out of reach, but it is something all right.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk Online
- Kenji Fujishima @ Movie Mezzanine
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Absurdist, surreal, supercilious meditation on our increasingly prevalent social isolation…
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A spiritual malaise hangs heavy over the film. Michael’s total apathy becomes our boredom too and the experience is disheartening.
- [New – 2/25/16] | MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: An astonishing, even perception-altering experience that represents a startling use of animation to tell a story that no live-action film could tell.
- Allyson Johnson @ TheYoungFolks.com
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: From the mind the man responsible for Adaptation and Synecdoche, New York, comes Anomalisa, a far more grounded story than we expect from Kaufman. Well, as much as grounded may embody stop-motion animation comprised of puppets and the same actor voicing dozens of characters including men, women, and children. Kaufman is nothing if not original.
- Jennie Kermode @ Eye For Film
- Greg Klymkiw @ The Film Corner
- Excerpt: The movie, and by extension, Gertten’s entire mise-en-scene and editorial structure, sneak up on you. Once he and the film have you in their clutches, there’s very little to do but wend your way freely through the picture, perched very comfortably on what feels like a bicycle built for two.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: Amusing, fascinating, and harrowing, ‘Anomalisa’ is a poignant animated drama that’s Kaufmanesque in the best of ways.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: There’s so much in this film that you probably need to see it more than once to digest it all. And believe me, you’ll want to.
- Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
- Jared Mobarak @ BuffaloVibe
- Excerpt: What follows is possibly the most authentically blossoming relationship in the movies of the past decade or longer, one evolved from awkwardness and idolatry on behalf of both parties. Lisa’s is a voice that cuts through the static straight to Michael’s heart, an anomaly of uniqueness to cherish and covet just as he is of intelligence.
- [New – 2/25/16] | Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Anomalous material…
- Eddie Pasa @ DC Filmdom
- Excerpt: With Anomalisa, you should expect nothing less than a terrific and skewed examination of the shared human experience of expectations and ideals.
- Kristy Puchko @ Pajiba
- Excerpt: Kaufman, with each tiny gesture, each repeating face, each banal line of dialogue about zoos and mojitos, is shaping a love letter to loneliness…But overall, it reads to me like a message in a bottle meant for someone else.
- Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: An inventive bit of stop-motion brilliance which seizes upon the inherent falsities of its chosen medium and employs them as a driving force in the examination of tedium and the apathetic perception of sameness as one grows old.
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Okay, I’ll say it; “Anomalisa” is what they call a gem.
- Thomas Spurlin @ DVDTalk.com
- Excerpt: The maturity of Anomalisa’s perspective truly does expand upon what stop-motion animation can do, though the screwy destination involving the main character’s escalating attitude weighs down what’s being expressed.
- Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: A deceptively simple stop-action movie that packs a fantastic punch.
- Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: The stunning Anomalisa is ultimately an adult film, beyond its expletives and (puppet) nudity: It offers a keen, pitiless depiction of the maddening contradictions of the human experience.
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