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| CBC Infoculture: A good trip while it lasts |
"'Being John Malkovich,' if you haven't guessed already by the title, is what you call an idea movie." more... |
| Channel 2000: 'Being John' Is A Nutty Head Trip |
"...definitely an unusual and original exercise in nuttiness on film." more... |
| culturevulture.net |
"...ingenious, different, beautifully directed and acted, and also very, very funny." more... |
| Flick Filosopher: Head Games |
"Hours and then days after leaving the theater, you're struck out of nowhere by some new subtlety of the characters that makes you reconsider them, some nuance of the plot that suddenly calls your initial interpretation of the film into question, or some detail in the imagery or the music that makes you say Wow!" more... |
| Harvey's Movie Reviews |
"Amusing mainstream surrealist film which is refreshingly off-beat for about two thirds of the running time, but too melodramatic too often to quite escape the boundaries of convention." more... |
| James Berardinelli |
(3.5 out of 4 stars) "I'm not arrogant enough to claim that nothing like 'Being John Malkovich' has ever previously been committed to celluloid, but, if it has been, I haven't seen it." more... |
| Metromix: Spike Jonze's "Being John Malkovich" is a literal head trip |
"...a dark movie comedy that you couldn't forget if you tried." more... |
| Nitrate Online |
"Wacky, wild, side-splitting, and refreshing as all hell. And then some." more... |
| NY Rock: A Tale of Extraordinary Madness |
"For his first film feature, maverick music video director Spike Jonze concocts a fascinating, hilarious character study focused on the question of who pulls the strings of our fixation on celebrity." more... |
| Orlando Weekly: After MTV, 'Being' is believing |
(5 out of 5 stars) "In his first feature film, director Spike Jonze masters the notions of identity and celebrity he merely toyed with in his music videos." more... |
| Salon |
"'Being John Malkovich' is the first produced screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, and it bears the mark of demented genius." more... |
| Savoy |
"Its traveling camera is fleet and unobtrusive, framing blithe, unselfish actor performances and a carnival of urban-fantastique sets worthy of Terry Gilliam." more... |
| SF Chronicle: Witty, inventive comedy takes viewers somewhere utterly new |
(rating: man applauding) "...inspired madness." more... |
| Spliced: Malkovellian Mind Games |
"Unrivaled as the most inventive and wildly conceptual movie of 1999, there's just no way to explain 'Being John Malkovich' without it sounding too weird to be for real." more... |
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