I'm Thinking Of Ending Things (2020) ***1/2

I'm Thinking Of Ending Things (2020) is unmistakably a Charlie Kaufman film. It's heady, poetic, and bizarre. It could also be accused of being willfully obtuse, rambling, psychological claptrap. My interpretation of it is somewhere in the middle. I didn't flat-out love it—it contains plenty of mumbling dialogue (par for the Kaufman course)—but this rumination on time, age, and reality does contain many powerful moments (including two impressively long dreamlike snowbound driving sequences). 

ITOET is a particularly unsettling, meta mood-piece with surreal framing choices (the film is presented in full screen 1.33:1 ratio), disorienting camera movements, and elusive editing. I can't claim to fully understand it and I wasn't fond of where the film settled in its finale, when it shifted character focus—preferring the first half(ish) to the second—but, as mentioned earlier, it's a Kaufman film through and through.