It is mostly mediocre fare. There are wasted quality actors, drifting plotting, and less than impressive directorial choices. But any movie with Malkovich in a lead role is not likely to be completely forgettable.

| Feb 23, 2024

A surprising film with so much going for it including a lot of intrigue in Hitchcockian proportions...

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

Malkovich is perhaps the best, most chillingly precise Ripley to date.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Malkovich ... is utterly convincing as the mercurial man who can go from delicately sniffing truffles to garroting a Balkan gangster in the blink of an eye.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 29, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

See this film for its story and for Malkovich' performance, or if you are easily distracted and irritated, buy the book and imagine everything yourself instead.

| Aug 3, 2004

Ripley's Game draws you in with its virtuoso performances and moody aura of menace.

Full Review | May 27, 2004

Representative of the fear and loathing attendant to the death rattle of domestic culture.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 18, 2004

Now we have the real Ripley: John Malkovich.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 16, 2004

John Malkovich [delivers] a performance that's as playful as it is perverse.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 31, 2004

No surpresa constatar que John Malkovich se revela o melhor entre os quatro intrpretes do personagem.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2004

As slithery and seductive a thriller as you'll find.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 11, 2004

Arguably the most satisfying distillation of Highsmith's nastiness, ingenuity and humor, with the added dividend of Mr. Malkovich's diabolical charm and insouciance.

| Feb 26, 2004

The movie may, late in Cavani's career, come to be seen as her best work.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2004

Malkovich steals the show and director Liliana Cavani ... does a perfectly serviceable job.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 6, 2003

John Malkovich is perfectly cast as the amoral epicurean

| Original Score: B | Aug 30, 2003

Cavani uses a seedy, spying camera and beautiful European locations to draw us into the action and dress it up as art. She's a sick puppy, but she's good at what she does.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2003

Like most sequels, the film hasn't the allure of the first encounter; only the curiosity value of a second look. The script, by Cavani and Charles McKeown, is lazy and clumsy.

| May 31, 2003