It's clever, witty, dark and, most importantly, unwaveringly bizarre.
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11/06/02
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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
Jonze’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
What it leaves behind is a dizzying sense of exhilaration, like being bathed in champagne.
10/15/02
Wonderful and inspired weirdness.
10/11/02
Defies all expectations. It touches you in places you didn't think a film could reach. It's everything at once, thoughts, feelings, urges... But it is not total confusion. It does make sense. A lot. And it's hysterically funny, too!
09/10/02
It's tremendously entertaining, and probably worthy of repeat viewings.
06/18/02
Top CriticSão poucas, as vezes em que podemos realmente dizer 'Nunca vi algo assim!'. Este filme consegue se encaixar nesta rara descrição.
05/31/02
Gender and relationships shift and merge and re-form like blobs of goo in a lava lamp… a profoundly anti-human fantasy.
05/08/02
Everyone in this clever, funny film seems to be having a great time, and so do we.
04/03/02
Jonze is a blithe puppeteer himself, and his canny self-referentiality is nonetheless ingenuous, though at times he gets a little too cute and frivolous for his own good.
03/24/02
Wonderfully inventive, wickedly funny, and thoughtful enough to keep your mind on full alert, it's a square peg in the round world of genre films.
03/19/02
Loses momentum tacking on countless plot twists that, while unpredictable, are tiresome and obnoxious.
03/08/02
An Alice-in-Wonderland extravaganza about the yearning we all have , occaisionally, to be someone else.
03/04/02
There was a scene in Being John Malkovich that ranks as the funniest scene I have ever, well, seen, in a movie. That would be when John Malkovich goes through the portal into his own mind. I laughed so hard that I fell out of my chair.
02/28/02
The filmmakers are stoned on weirdness for its own sake, which is the danger of becoming too enthralled by the freewheeling ethos of the '60s.
01/09/02
A hilarious and beguiling comedy-adventure-mystery-romance hybrid. And it's not just the jaw-dropping oddity of the thing that makes it work; the film has a wonderfully involving -- and even moving -- storyline.
12/10/01
Ribald Kafkaesque romp Being John Malkovich contemplates the nature of sexual identity and celebrity with a surrealist shtick that owes plenty to Buñuel and Svankmajer.
08/17/01
An incredibly rich and entertaining (not to say, laudably malevolent) film that far transcends its already way-out title premise.
04/17/01
It's really one hell of a ride.
03/21/01
Cinta sumamente original que va a dejar pensando al espectador tiempo después de que éste abandone la sala de proyección
03/14/01
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