There's a column over at the A.V. Club called "The New Cult Canon" and Synecdoche, New York is being featured at the mo'. The write-up on the film isn't dissimilar to stuff we've read before, but you might want to give it a look. A.V. writer Scott Tobias' opinion differs to his colleague Mike D'Angelo, who didn't entirely dig the film. Says Scott:

In Synecdoche, New York, the part is Charlie Kaufman and the whole is us. The film may play like a “Malkovich Malkovich feedback loop,” but it ultimately looks outward, extrapolating from one man's problems a much broader and more philosophical assessment of what it means to be human. It may not be universally appealing, but its appeal is universal in that it applies to a broad spectrum of feelings and experiences that everyone goes through, not just brainy writers from New York. (Source)

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