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Being John Malkovich

1999

Spike Jonze

John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich ...

7.3

54,066

Sci-Fi. Comedy. Fantasy Manhattan, the present. Under pressure from his wife Lotte, street-puppeteer Craig Schwartz takes a job as a clerk with LesterCorp., run by Doctor Lester, a company located on the low-ceilinged seventh-and-a-half floor of an office tower. He falls in love with his co-worker Maxine. Craig discovers a hidden door leading to a passage which sucks him into the head of actor John Malkovich, whose life he experiences for 15 minutes before ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"With a terrific original screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, [it] is not the first to explore the prospect of being able to sneak into the mind of another person. But Mr. Jonze's version is definitely the most fun."	POS
United Kingdom	Caroline Westbrook Empire	"The multi-talented Jonze (...) has created an outstanding piece of work, an off-kilter vision curiously reminiscent of the Coen Brothers, that isn't easily forgotten (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Outrageously funny (...) Every scene, every line, every narrative refinement, every exquisitely hand-tooled joke and sight-gag is of the purest gold. "	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	What an endlessly inventive movie this is! (...) [It] has ideas enough for half a dozen films, but Jonze and his cast handle them so surely that we never feel hard-pressed (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Unblemished by solemnity, intellectual pretensions or elephant dung, this movie of constant astonishments will make you laugh hard and long."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Unlike most comedies, which go for laughs without worrying about depth, Being John Malkovich has both (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Rooney Variety	"Devilishly inventive and so far out there it's almost off the scale."	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"So full of creativity, so subversive, so alive (...) Delicious."	POS
United States	Keith Staskiewicz Entertainment Weekly	"Much more than a primer on a writer’s pet themes. It’s a delightfully absurdist, occasionally off-putting masterpiece of existential voyeurism that runs on its own off-brand logic."	POS

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