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

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.

8 of 14 users found this helpful86

gbferreira

Apr 2, 2021

For me it was the best movie of 2020. Intelligent, difficult, with great acting, great dialogues, and a wonderful direction, it is a movie that makes you think about it for days.

0 of 1 users found this helpful01

silverluso

Sep 6, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Charlie Kaufman seems to hate new viewers, opting instead to cater towards his already well established fans. I marked this as a spoiler not for those who have never seen his movies, but for those who have.
This is perhaps is most obtuse movie, meant to be watched multiple times, and discussed. Famously, at least among his fans, Kaufman has been about what you take out of the movie, as much as he has any what the actual meaning is. Here is the real spoiler, the nameless girlfriend is a fantasy of jake, she wants to be real, and how real she is, is up to you. What's not up to you is the movie is a memory of a man who is at the end of his life. He feels as though all his talent was wasted, and maybe he accepts that at the end. I don't think so, there's a line about an award jake wins, which amounts to nothing more than participation, in the last scene he is seen getting an award. Either this is an his last excuse before he dies ("if I had a wife I'd have been successful" or it is one last rebellion, that his life was void like most of ours. At any rate, this is a great movie made for a very specific audience. It is hard to recommend this movie to everyone, because it is not for everyone. However the price who it is for, will love it… Expand

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Brass_sass

Sep 5, 2020

Honestly i enjoyed the movie its Charlie Kaufman doing what he does which is good, just the movie lacked a good driving force in the movie as a opposed to the book which had me compelled al the way through, yet the mov8e looks great and it portray what the book was going for but.Honestly i enjoyed the movie its Charlie Kaufman doing what he does which is good, just the movie lacked a good driving force in the movie as a opposed to the book which had me compelled al the way through, yet the mov8e looks great and it portray what the book was going for but. Differently, this film is more of a abstract rather than a thriller like the book… Expand

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snorkiss

Sep 13, 2020

I'm thinking of ending things after watching I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Great performances and interesting concepts are wasted on this bloated, self-indulgent mess - 4 stars

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TVJerry

Sep 6, 2020

Charlie Kaufman has always been respected as a unique filmmaker. As far as I’m concerned, this latest Netflix entry has taken him over the edge. It starts as Jesse Plemons takes his girlfriend (Jessie Buckley) home in a snow storm to meet his parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis). AfterCharlie Kaufman has always been respected as a unique filmmaker. As far as I’m concerned, this latest Netflix entry has taken him over the edge. It starts as Jesse Plemons takes his girlfriend (Jessie Buckley) home in a snow storm to meet his parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis). After a long sequence in the car they arrive at the farm, where the Twilight Zone takes over. Things go from weird to confusing as this muse on memories and fantasy culminates in a dance sequence and a Nobel Prize. There are hidden messages and symbolic signs littered throughout in an attempt to make this make sense. As a straight-up cinematic experience it’s sometimes interesting, but more often frustrating, tedious, and self-indulgent (yes, that all lower-case title is one example).
There have already been numerous articles trying to decode the meaning of this mental adventure, so check them out if you want extra help with the confusion.… Expand

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Masterkilla

Sep 9, 2020

Just because it has Charlie Kaufman name on it were supposed to believe its gonna be good, trash trash trash from beginning to end, Charlie Kaufman should never ever make another film ever again if this is the trash that's gonna have his name on it, it's more like a film that would of beenJust because it has Charlie Kaufman name on it were supposed to believe its gonna be good, trash trash trash from beginning to end, Charlie Kaufman should never ever make another film ever again if this is the trash that's gonna have his name on it, it's more like a film that would of been made for straight to DVD if this pandemic was not happening, Charlie Kaufman must be really really be in need of money to slap his name on this trash, PATHETIC… Expand

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