A smart, unusual film that will get into your head.
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01/01/00
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Being John Malkovich (1999)
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Reviews Counted:116
Fresh:107
Rotten:9
Average Rating:8/10
Consensus: Being John Malkovich is both funny and smart, featuring a highly original script.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Original is far too understated a term to describe this picture, brought to you by the surreal, twisted minds of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and actor-director Jonze. The story concerns a... [More]
Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich
Director: Spike Jonze
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Reviews for Being John Malkovich
A hellacious ride.
01/01/00
Top CriticJonze’s style s in his own inventive manner and, whilst the subject matter is certainly off-the-wall, the dialogue is spot on.
10/30/02
but for appreciative movie patrons, this one is sure to be treasured for a long time to come.
01/01/00
A true original, Being John Malkovich is a surreal journey.
01/01/00
The film boasts genuine emotional insight and affection for its screwed-up characters.
01/01/00
The originality of the entire concept will delight all of you moviegoers out there with an obsessive urge to find something completely different.
01/01/00
Being John Malkovich, a pre-millennial science fiction comedy about participatory voyeurism and the nature of celebrity, is probably the damnedest thing we'll see all year.
01/01/00
Featuring a bizarrely original storyline, the screenplay by Charlie Kaufman is brought to the screen by Jonze in what may turn out to be one of the funniest films of the year.
12/08/02
A triumph. Featuring a bizarrely original storyline, the screenplay by Charlie Kaufman is brought to the screen by Jonze in what may turn out to be one of the funniest films of the year.
12/06/05
Lunacy is par for this film’s course, made visual by Lance Acord’s creatively demented cinematography.
01/01/00
Being John Malkovich is ingenious, different, beautifully directed and acted, and also very, very funny.
01/01/00
This is a film about identity, self-worth, voyeurism, consciousness, commercialism, celebrity, power (who is the ultimate puppet master?) narcissism, mortality and the most demented menage-a-trois in recent memory.
01/01/00
Being J.M. pumps so much laughing gas of foolishness that I began to imagine that Malkovich started his rise not at the Steppenwolf Theater but at Chicago' s long-gone puppet theater, the Kungsholm.
01/01/00
Certain movies are shameful for snubbing the laws of reality, but Being John Malkovich does not once feel sidetracked by the zany twists.
01/01/00
The kind of film you might want to see several times to appreciate fully: every characterization, every line of dialogue, every frame of film stock has something unique to offer.
01/01/00
Devilishly inventive and so far out there it's almost off the scale.
06/17/08
Pitches so many curveballs that even its title is a joke.
01/01/00
This is the kind of strange film that one would expect to be released as an art-house indie, yet here it is playing as a mainstream mall film.
01/01/00
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