It's really one hell of a ride.
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03/21/01
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
Reviews for Being John Malkovich
Cinta sumamente original que va a dejar pensando al espectador tiempo después de que éste abandone la sala de proyección
03/14/01
We get self-absorbed characters seeking personal happiness, no matter how it may affect others, especially Malkovich.
03/12/01
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze deserve some kind of special award for (respectively) having an imagination twisted enough to think up and the visual inventiveness to execute a movie like Being John Malkovich.
02/27/01
It's not a horrible movie. It just gets so confusing that you should rent it, so you can rewind and figure out what is going on.
02/14/01
The film has a number of good laughs in it.
01/01/01
A smart, unusual film that will get into your head.
01/01/00
Top CriticA hellacious ride.
01/01/00
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
Descends disappointingly from hilarious whimsy into bleak, repellant, Outer Limits - tinged dysfunction.
01/01/00
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
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