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Being John Malkovich 05 Nov 99

A real winner; completely inventive and funny. If you go into a bad flick and know the trite ending as you sit down, you're 90 to 120 minutes 'ahead' of the film. I was all of six seconds - SECONDS - ahead of this film all of twice. The absolute freshness, with the fantastic writing and performances, makes for a true marvel in movies these days: true surprized delight. Misses the '+' by only a tiny fraction for a scene I persoanlly felt was a bit too far on the mean-spirited side, but then I'm sort of a prude about that. A

I can remember a time when where we went to the movies was just as important as the movies we went to see .... From the moment moviegoers arrived to buy their tickets, there was a sense of something special, a feeling that to step inside was to enter another time and place. - Gene Kelly