I'm gonna get the verbal shit kicked out of me, but the Squid and the Whale is nearly as bad as Juno.
Fair enough. But you did like Synecdoche New York so there's no point in you and I discussing this. Any way what I said about it is that it's better than all the Wes Andersson films. Andersson is the most overrated film maker of the decade. Now don't get me wrong I quite like his films but it's the people who LOVE them that really gall me. You'd swear he re-invented the camera the way they go on, for me the squid and the whale has more of an emotional core than any of Andersons. I guess i just hate when film makers sidestep genuine emotional truth in favour of quirkiness. Squid worked for me because it gives up on quirkey with a quater of the film to go. Juno fails because by the time it tries to "get serious" there's little for it to say.
But that's just me. I hated the Goonies so my opinion on films always gets me in trouble.