i'm thinking of ending things

Name: i'm thinking of ending things
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Released: September 4, 2020
Duration: 134 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Abby Quinn, Anthony Robert Grasso, Ashlyn Alessi, Colby Minifie, David Thewlis

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): September 4, 2020 | R

Starring: Abby Quinn, Anthony Robert Grasso, Ashlyn Alessi, Colby Minifie, David Thewlis, Gus Birney, Guy Boyd, Hadley Robinson, Jason Ralph, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Teddy Coluca, Toni Collette

Summary: Despite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to his family farm. Trapped at the farm during a snowstorm with Jake’s mother (Toni Collette) and father (David Thewlis), the young woman begins to question the nature of everything she knew or understoodDespite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to his family farm. Trapped at the farm during a snowstorm with Jake’s mother (Toni Collette) and father (David Thewlis), the young woman begins to question the nature of everything she knew or understood about her boyfriend, herself, and the world.… Expand

Director: Charlie Kaufman

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 134 min

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The Telegraph Tim Robey

Sep 3, 2020

[Kaufman's] film leaves your head spinning. Read full review

Chris Evangelista

Aug 27, 2020

It’s a beautiful, strange terrarium of a film, inviting us to gaze through the glass and wonder what’s going on underneath. Just as funny and creepy as it needs to be, the film is Kaufman at the top of his game, firing on all cylinders. A master of his own unique, unclassifiable craft. Read full review

ABC Peter Travers

Sep 18, 2020

If, like me, you enjoy challenges that are emotionally rewarding to puzzle out, then I'm Thinking of Ending Things ranks with the year's best movies. Read full review

David Rooney

Aug 27, 2020

On many levels it's a bold, brilliant work, uncompromising in its darkness and distinguished by rigorously committed performances from a superb principal cast. Yet in many fundamental ways, the movie is frustrating; it's frequently a hard slog, as distancing as it is illuminating. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Sep 12, 2020

Some may be frustrated that Kaufman leaves viewers to figure out his ultimately puzzling narrative, but this film’s entrancing strangeness begins to assert a hallucinogenic hold. Even if the roads are sometimes treacherous, they’re well worth exploring. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Aug 27, 2020

It’s frustrating, although I’m grateful Kaufman didn’t simply film the book as written. The actors couldn’t be better attuned to the nervous system of this universe. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Sep 3, 2020

The movie asks us to wonder what’s real and what’s false, and what it all means. But it goes on for 134 minutes without ever giving viewers a reason to keep watching. Few Netflix customers will make it all the way to the end, and even fewer will be glad they did. Read full review

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soumajit

Sep 4, 2020

Kaufman's least accessible film but still engaging in a weird manner. May be after multiple watches it should be clear for me.

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Conair

Oct 15, 2020

One of the best films of the year. Charlie Kaufman has outdone himself with this project. Each performance perfectly melts into the unsettling backdrop. The dialogue is rich, while still somehow remaining intentionally shallow. What really separates this movie is it's ability to come off asOne of the best films of the year. Charlie Kaufman has outdone himself with this project. Each performance perfectly melts into the unsettling backdrop. The dialogue is rich, while still somehow remaining intentionally shallow. What really separates this movie is it's ability to come off as a light comedy and a crushing tragedy all at once.… Expand

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Taogod

Sep 7, 2020

Finally, some real art in a movie again. Most viewers will stop watching early in the movie which is understandable since we've had years of films aimed for the 30 second attention span. This movie is for the thoughtful and those with some film knowledge. With its David Lynch/Coen brothersFinally, some real art in a movie again. Most viewers will stop watching early in the movie which is understandable since we've had years of films aimed for the 30 second attention span. This movie is for the thoughtful and those with some film knowledge. With its David Lynch/Coen brothers flavor and excellent acting it was a treat over the brain dead high budget movies of the past few decades. Its weakness was there should have been more of Toni Collette and David Thewlis who were simply fantastic. Dialogue driven movies are unfortunately a rarity.… Expand

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Eldoreth

Sep 12, 2020

After watching this film, I was rather confused and wanted to solve the mystery. But there weren't enough numbers in the Sudoko puzzle to make much sense of it. I went online and someone there had posted something that made sense of the film and it clicked. As I've grown I've found myselfAfter watching this film, I was rather confused and wanted to solve the mystery. But there weren't enough numbers in the Sudoko puzzle to make much sense of it. I went online and someone there had posted something that made sense of the film and it clicked. As I've grown I've found myself less and less enthused about vagueness and abstraction. I've started to prefer straightfowardness and truthful approximation. I just think if you have something to say, then say it, damnit. The movie would have hit a lot harder had I know what exactly it was trying to say rather than trying to be "smart" and mysterious.

This movie needed a sympathetic protagonist. It needed to be his voice we heard first, so that we would know he is the central character. By the end we would need to know what is happening and we would empathize with the central character which would produce a cathartic response. We got this in Eternal Sunshine. We could have gotten this in this film too.

I also wonder why the film kept cutting away from Plemmons at the last scene, even cutting away strangely in the middle of a climax in the scene, forcing us to look from afar rather than see the emotion on his face. This repeated cutting close and far was stupid. No other explanation. It was jarring and stupid.… Expand

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Noblerev

Sep 8, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A head scratcher for sure, but too abstract to retain the interest of the average viewer, I powered through it and felt like I'd wasted my time.
I get that it's supposed to be a film you interpretate but it was so disjointed that it just felt lazy rather than like a cinematic masterpiece.… Expand

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thetruth11

Sep 16, 2020

This movie will disappoint MOST ppl in my opinion. There are moments that will literally bring chills to your body and its not even a horror film. The atmosphere is very intense in some scenes and there is great cinematography, but it ends there. The movie gives you a sense of foreshadowing,This movie will disappoint MOST ppl in my opinion. There are moments that will literally bring chills to your body and its not even a horror film. The atmosphere is very intense in some scenes and there is great cinematography, but it ends there. The movie gives you a sense of foreshadowing, but fails to follow up. The ENTIRE movie feels like it’s building towards something only to end abruptly. Also this movie is INCREDIBLY pretentious. The main characters have these long boring drawn out conversations that are meant to be “intellectual” or “poetic” but just serves as an obstacle you have to endure so that you can get to the ending. This is why the ending is so bad, because you go through all that pretentious gab only to be disappointed. There are masterful moments that feel like a great ally oop pass to set up somethint better later on but instead it drags on and on.

If your someone who is looking for a suspenseful, compelling thriller movie, you can do much better than this.… Expand

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Kryss_Everson

Sep 9, 2020

This film begins by presenting the two main protagonists through discussions on various subjects between them. Why not? The first problem is that it takes way too long, it becomes boring and frustrating. Then, when they arrive at their destination, the film takes a more scary turn and there,This film begins by presenting the two main protagonists through discussions on various subjects between them. Why not? The first problem is that it takes way too long, it becomes boring and frustrating. Then, when they arrive at their destination, the film takes a more scary turn and there, we say to ourselves that we are going to have a good time but ... NO, we understand very quickly and without leaving the place to doubt what is happening. We hope for more depth, explanations, a twist but NO, NOTHING! At the end of this movie, I told myself that it was not possible, that something must have escaped me but again NO, this film is just a long torture which tries to give itself a style by leaving in the blabla pseudo intellectual but without providing an interesting background. One of the worst movies I have seen recently.… Expand

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