Critic Reviews

This smart, fanciful and brilliantly staged comedy takes a truly one-of-a-kind premise and makes it, of all things, a weirdly profound meditation on consciousness, identity, fame, gender and reality.

The most excitingly original movie of the year.

A wildly inventive, unrelenting thrill that amazes us with its visual and intellectual treats and dazzles us with its ongoing ingenuity.

Absolutely, see the movie.

Either Being John Malkovich gets nominated for best picture, or the members of the Academy need portals into their brains.

Breathlessly imaginative.

Being John Malkovich, which contains not a frame of extraneous footage, is more than a must-see movie: It's a must-see-more-than-once event.

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

But then Being John Malkovich is a brilliant juggling act, too, brilliantly brought off.

It's the film we leave most movie theaters wishing we'd seen instead.