Leo Robson reviews Synecdoche, New York in the London Times Literary Supplement, and it's a good, lengthy one with a bit of depth.

The screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, who was born in New York in 1958, is in many ways the worthiest heir to Allen's throne. While the other contenders (Albert Brooks, Larry David) seek to emulate features of Allen's persona, Kaufman has taken a pick'n' mix approach to the director's work. He has adopted Allen's God-is-dead nihilism but left behind the life-is-sweet optimism that has traditionally acted as its foil and salve. He is a follower of the Allen who created and played Mickey the hypochondriac in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986); the Allen who likes to engineer Kafkaesque collisions of the fantastic and the mundane – the Allen who resembles Philip Roth more than Neil Simon. But crucially, Kaufman has modified Allen's conception of the life–art relationship. His characters aim to get things to come out imperfect and amorphous in art – just as they do again and again in life. (Source)

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