Subject: Charlie Kaufman

• Being Spike Jonze

  The acclaimed rock-video director has made one of the year's oddest, funniest films. So why is he scared of his own shadow?

  November 4, 1999

• Critical Mass: The Best Movies of 2008

  December 25, 2008

• Holiday Feast, Extra Stuffing

  Desplechin's A Christmas Tale is the gift this season needs

  November 20, 2008

• We Heart NY

  November 20, 2008

• Synecdoche, New York

  Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's latest

  November 6, 2008

• Charlie Kaufman Embraces Synecdoche

  October 30, 2008

• The Mind of Malkovich

  October 9, 2008

• Shots in the Dark

  Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

  May 22, 2008

• Adaptation

  September 28, 2006

• Anchor, Man?

  Ferrell doesn't quite ground this artificially whimsical comedy

  November 9, 2006

• Playtime

  Throwaway gags and mad obsessions in Gondry's wondrous fantasy

  September 28, 2006

• Mind Gamey

  Dot the I wants to mess with your head. Yep, it's a mess all right.

  April 14, 2005

• Shock Treatment

  An experimental director and a harrowing tale fit The Jacket perfectly

  March 3, 2005

• From Major to Minor

  Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't

  December 30, 2004

• Lean Sideways

  In a year when small movies came up big, picking the best was a Payne

  December 30, 2004

• Blarney Rubble

  Intermission kicks through the debris of modern Ireland

  April 1, 2004

• The Mind's Why

  Charlie Kaufman exists. He really does. Ask him.

  March 18, 2004

• Forget Me Not

  Inside the Spotless Mind is a big and beating heart

  March 18, 2004

• Mind Games

  George Clooney impressively toys with the twisted delusions of a game-show producer

  January 23, 2003

• Old News

  Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded some good harvest

  January 2, 2003

• Far From Happy

  The year's best featured plenty of Sad White Guys

  January 2, 2003

• Hairy Plotters

  Ignoble savages go ape in Human Nature

  April 11, 2002

• Blurred vision

  What will 1999 be remembered for -- Malkovich's head or Cartman's ass?

  December 30, 1999

• Pull the strings

  The power of puppetry propels the brilliant Being John Malkovich

  November 4, 1999

• Strings Attached

  September 17, 2009