Being John Malkovich
A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
9 July 1901, Belews Creek, North Carolina, USA
2 August 1943, Evanston, Illinois, USA
17 November 1980, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
4 September 1972, Sacramento, California, USA
December 18, 2010
Kids won't get this sex-driven, head-trip comedy.
November 06, 2002
It's clever, witty, dark and, most importantly, unwaveringly bizarre.
June 17, 2008
Devilishly inventive and so far out there it's almost off the scale.
June 25, 2012
an essential existentialist text.
April 27, 2007
By the time the tunnel worthy of the likes of Gulliver and Alice becomes a freeway clogged with bit players, a big chill has descended on all the characters.
June 18, 2012
An incredibly rich and entertaining (not to say, laudably malevolent) film that far transcends its already way-out title premise ...
June 18, 2002
It's tremendously entertaining, and probably worthy of repeat viewings.
June 14, 2012
Playing by its own rules every step of the way, Being John Malkovich is clearly the sort of movie that needs to be made more often.
July 21, 2005
It is hard to mix moods -- the film is manic, subtle, comic and vaguely sad -- but [Jonze] does it masterfully.
April 03, 2012
[VIDEO ESSAY] Corollaries of desire break through dead-end walls only to be reinvented on the other side in a supernatural spectrum of practical existence. Go figure.
February 07, 2014
There's something fantastically proto-Internet about this romantic-dramedy of flop-sweat desperation, role-playing, simulation and eccentric, niche-culture behaviour-a world of virtual-reality escapes, alter egos, sexual fetishes and rabbit-hole trips.
February 08, 2008
This outrageous comic fantasy may not sustain its brilliance throughout its 112 minutes, but it keeps cooking for so much of that time that I don't have many complaints.
