"SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK is beautiful....It makes an irrefutable case for the universality of the individual human experience."
Los Angeles Times "SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK is as much a cry from the heart as it is an assertion of creative consciousness. It's extravagantly conceptual but also tethered to the here and now..."
New York Times "[F]or viewers up for the challenge, it may be the film most likely to stick with you."
Premiere "This is a film with the richness of great fiction....The subject of SYNECDOCHE is nothing less than human life and how it works."
Chicago Sun-Times "Kaufman provides juicy roles for his actors, including Michelle Williams, Dianne Wiest and Tom Noonan, who get caught in the time war as art imitates something resembling existence."
Rolling Stone "[W]hile deadly serious in theme, the film is frantically playful in its construction, introducing a new surrealist gimmick in nearly every other scene..."
Film Comment 4 stars out of 5 -- "Kaufman's meta-cinema must be applauded....He's presented here something intricate enough to put furrows in the brows of Borges or Baudrillard."
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