Charlie Kaufman's 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things' hits Netflix at midnight. 'Some of the film’s brightest spots,' writes Variety's AwardsCircuit, 'are the narrative unfolding, which in many ways is his second-best screenwriting effort to date'
) to meet his parents at a secluded farm. Narrating her feelings and ponderance about her life and relationship, she questions everything she’s come to know.
Kaufman’s Academy relationship is still a healthy one given his three prior writing nominations: “Being John Malkovich,” “Adaptation” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” . Plemons continues to expand and show his acting range, and as the unpredictable and slightly overbearing Jake, he gets to explore some new areas of his abilities. Not sure we can ever listen to “Oklahoma” the same way again. By far his strongest, fully realized turn of his career, Plemons’ acute and peculiar choices that he’s been known for, is a perfect marriage of art and artist.
Along with Kaufman, Netflix’s adapted screenplay contenders are plentiful this year. Ron Howard’s “Hillbilly Elegy” is near the top of the list, which comes from Oscar-nominated screenwriter Vanessa Taylor . Adapted from the J.D. Vance book, the film that stars Amy Adams and Glenn Close, who have a whopping 13 Oscar losses between the two of them, will be an anticipated drop.
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