Being John Malkovich Reviews
Netflix
Being John Malkovich is one head-trip of a comedy.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Top CriticIt's clever, witty, dark and, most importantly, unwaveringly bizarre.
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| Original Score: 3/4
ViewLondon
Jonze's style s in his own inventive manner and, whilst the subject matter is certainly off-the-wall, the dialogue is spot on.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cincinnati Enquirer
What it leaves behind is a dizzying sense of exhilaration, like being bathed in champagne.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Combustible Celluloid
Wonderful and inspired weirdness.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Montreal Film Journal
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!
It's tremendously entertaining, and probably worthy of repeat viewings.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Cinema em Cena
São poucas, as vezes em que podemos realmente dizer 'Nunca vi algo assim!'. Este filme consegue se encaixar nesta rara descrição.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Decent Films Guide
Gender and relationships shift and merge and re-form like blobs of goo in a lava lamp… a profoundly anti-human fantasy.
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| Original Score: F
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Everyone in this clever, funny film seems to be having a great time, and so do we.
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| Original Score: B
Boston Phoenix
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.
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Matinee Magazine
Loses momentum tacking on countless plot twists that, while unpredictable, are tiresome and obnoxious.
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| Original Score: short
Spirituality and Practice
An Alice-in-Wonderland extravaganza about the yearning we all have , occaisionally, to be someone else.
Goatdog's Movies
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Movieline
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.
Shadows on the Wall
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.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Slant Magazine
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.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Sight and Sound
An incredibly rich and entertaining (not to say, laudably malevolent) film that far transcends its already way-out title premise.
Austin Chronicle
It's really one hell of a ride.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
