Will Farrell stars as an IRS agent in Stranger Than Fiction, a Sony Pictures movie that opens today.  Here is part of the favorable New York Times review:

Harold Crick, who lives alone in a spartan apartment in an unspecified city (Chicago, it looks like), is an I.R.S. auditor who obeys an unvarying routine. At least, that is, until the musings of the film’s voice-over narrator become audible not just to the audience but to Harold as well. Irked by the dry, British, female voice in his head, he is driven to seek out its source. He eventually discovers that he is a character in a novel being written by Karen Eiffel (an antic Emma Thompson), who is chain-smoking her way through an epic case of writer’s block, helped by a no-nonsense emissary from her publisher played by Queen Latifah.

Here are some of the reviews:

• Roger Ebert:  A-
• USA Today:  B
• Hollywood Reporter:  B
• New York Times:   B-

To view the trailer, see here.