The Universe According to Charlie Kaufman, in the NY Times. Nothing earth-shatteringly new, but worth a read.

From the LA Times' Oscar blog:

Some who see it will find it haunting and profoundly meaningful, as did Time critic Richard Corliss ("A miracle movie"), New York Times critic A.O. Scott ("Kaufman has created an alternative reality unsettling nearly every expectation"), and myself (I'm personally convinced that it's a modern-day masterpiece).(Source)

That's from Scott Feinberg, who has a cool 20-minute podcast of an interview with Charlie on his blog. Some great quotes in there, too.

Seattle film critic NP Thompson checks out Synecdoche in a review worth reading:

Only, to my immense surprise, Kaufman's new film more closely resembles a dream-state. Synecdoche, New York misses being great art (which the endeavor clearly strives/wants to be) by a wide margin, and yet it's an inescapably haunting, unabashedly romantic picture, a torch song, and a tone poem...it's a dream about outliving your dreams. It's the song you never sang, the play you never wrote, the painting, the sculpture you couldn't finish (or even begin). More than this, much more devastatingly, it's the woman (or the man) you tenderly loved yet never proposed to.(Source)

He's also the second person to compare the final 20 minutes with 2001.

Here's a neat Q&A with Charlie from the NY Post. Colour me shocked that he's not into extreme sports.