‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Film Review: Charlie Kaufman Is Messing With Our Heads Again

Watch out, “Tenet” — Christopher Nolan is not the only director making long, stylish brain-teasers these days

Jessie Buckley in I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Mary Cybulski / Netflix

Hey, you know that big new movie by the celebrated director that plays around with notions of time and space and is maddeningly hard to understand?

No, not that one. The other one. The one you can see without leaving your house.

It turns out that Christopher Nolan is not the only director making long, stylish brain-teasers these days. There’s also Charlie Kaufman, writer of “Being John Malkovich” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and director of “Synecdoche, New York” and “Anomalisa,” whose “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” premieres on Netflix on Sept. 4.

Kaufman’s film is about 15 minutes shorter than Nolan’s two-and-a-half-hour epic “Tenet,” and it doesn’t get into that film’s sci-fi or action-movie territory.

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