Kaufman and Jonze steer us through a truly twisted psychological and existential swamp.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 30, 2019

Fabulously funny and delightfully disturbed, "Being John Malkovich'' is the ultimate voyeur movie, a dark and at times malevolent take on what it's like to be in someone else's skull, looking out.

| Jun 12, 2018

The beauty of the film is the way it elevates John Malkovich from an actor to an axiom.

| Mar 22, 2018

Though Being John Malkovich was deliciously original and delivers an underrated performance by John Cusack, the ending was a bit disappointing.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 11, 2017

An incredibly rich and entertaining (not to say, laudably malevolent) film that far transcends its already way-out title premise ...

| Jun 18, 2012

| Original Score: A | May 12, 2012

Devilishly inventive and so far out there it's almost off the scale.

Full Review | Jun 17, 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.

| Feb 8, 2008

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.

| Apr 27, 2007

It is hard to mix moods -- the film is manic, subtle, comic and vaguely sad -- but [Jonze] does it masterfully.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2005

It's clever, witty, dark and, most importantly, unwaveringly bizarre.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 6, 2002

It's tremendously entertaining, and probably worthy of repeat viewings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Being John Malkovich is a film of startling originality and creativity, a work of continual invention and hauntingly vivid imagery.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 8, 2002

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 19, 2002

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.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 17, 2001

An incredibly rich and entertaining (not to say, laudably malevolent) film that far transcends its already way-out title premise.

Full Review | Apr 17, 2001

It's really one hell of a ride.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 21, 2001

Surreal to the point of poeticism.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Full of creativity.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Highly original script.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000