Being John Malkovich Critic Reviews

But then Being John Malkovich is a brilliant juggling act, too, brilliantly brought off.Read the full review

Either Being John Malkovich gets nominated for best picture, or the members of the Academy need portals into their brains.Read the full review

The most excitingly original movie of the year.Read the full review

A clever and outrageous piece of whimsical fantasy that is unique, unpredictable and more than a little strange.Read the full review

The crazy-ass imagination at work in Being John Malkovich hits you like a blast of pure oxygen...this movie of constant astonishments will make you laugh hard and long.Read the full review

It's tremendously entertaining, and probably worthy of repeat viewings.Read the full review

Everything I've ever dreamed of in a crazy comedy. It's close to pure farce, yet its laughs are grounded in loneliness, impotence, self-loathing, and that most discomfiting of vices to dramatize: envy. The action is surreal, the emotions are violently real.Read the full review

Irresistable, nimble and very funny.Read the full review

The story keeps reinventing itself (some of the later plot twists are among the funniest), but a little goes a long way at 112 minutes - maybe 25 minutes more than this sporadically pointed conceit really needs.Read the full review