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John Malkovich

‘Wild Horse Nine’ Is Full of Hysterical but Horrible Remorse

November 6, 2026November 6, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments 1970s period films, 1973 Chilean coup, absurdist humor, American foreign policy, Augusto Pinochet, Bay of Pigs, betrayal, black comedy, character driven drama, Chile, CIA, CIA history, Cold War, Cold War espionage, Congo, covert operations, Cuba, dark comedy, Easter Island, espionage films, existential comedy, film criticism, Friendship, gallows humor, government corruption, Guatemala, guilt and regret, historical fiction, In Bruges, Indonesia, intelligence agencies, John F. Kennedy assassination, John Malkovich, loyalty, Martin McDonagh, Martin McDonagh films, melancholic comedy, mercy killing, misanthropy, Moai statues, moral ambiguity, moral responsibility, mortality, movie reviews, Parker Posey, Patrice Lumumba, political assassinations, political satire, political thriller, Rapa Nui, redemption, Salvador Allende, Sam Rockwell, Santiago, spy movies, Steve Buscemi, terminal illness, The Banshees of Inisherin, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tom Waits, US interventionism, Wild Horse Nine, Wild Horse Nine review

John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell take Martin McDonagh’s jaded Cold War warriors and turn them into Big Heads on Easter Island

Venice Crowns ‘Woman Unknown’

September 16, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments 1900, A Good Little Soldier, Alba Rohrwacher, Alex Gibney, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bernardo Bertolucci, Boatbuilders, Bunker, Burgundy, Cho Yeo-jeong, cinema, documentary, Elon Musk, Film festival, Florian Zeller, Gaza, Golden Lion, Gregory Kershaw, Israel, Jasmine Trinca, Javier Bardem, Jeon Do-yeon, John Malkovich, Joie de Vivre, Julia Loktev, Last Tango In Paris, Lee Chang-dong, Luca Guadagnino, Luke Lorentzen, Martin McDonagh, Mathilde Arcel, May El-Toukhy, Michael Dweck, Musk documentary, My Undesirable Friends, NAZA, Paul Dano, Penelope Cruz, Possible Love, Primetime, Rachel Szor, Robert Pattinson, Stéphane Brizé, Stephen Graham, Sul Kyung-gu, The Conformist, The Guardian, The Last Emperor, The Spiral, Venice 2026, Venice Film Festival, Wild Horse Nine, Woman Unknown, Yuval Abraham, Zo In-sung

May El-Toukhy takes the Golden Lion as class, power and inequality dominate the festival

Featured Stories FILM

John Malkovich, Werner Herzog, and Danny Boyle Show Up Big in Italy

September 5, 2026September 10, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Bucking Fastard, cinema, Danny Boyle, Film festival, film industry, Fleet Street, Guy Pearce, Ink, Jack O'Connell, James Graham, John Malkovich, Kate Mara, Martin McDonagh, movie news, Orlando Bloom, Oscar buzz, Rooney Mara, Rupert Murdoch, Sam Rockwell, The Sun, Venice 2026, Venice Film Festival, Venice Film Festival 2026, Werner Herzog, Wild Horse Nine

Actors and directors bring the goods to the Venice Film Festival 2026

Ripley

‘Ripley’ is Pretentious TV for “Smart” People

April 11, 2024April 17, 2024 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, Dennis Hopper, Gwyenth Paltrow, John Malkovich, Johnny Flynn, Jude Law, Matt Damon, Maurizio Lombardi, Patricia Highsmith, Ripley, Steven Zaillian

A noir remake of a classic film, without the glamour or star power

Movies

The Best Movies About Making Movies

April 4, 2022April 6, 2022 Samuel Porteous 5 Comments Billy Wilder, Boogie Nights, Brad Pitt, Bruce Lee, Day For Night, Hellzapoppin', Joel McCrea, John Malkovich, Olsen and Johnson, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Preston Sturges, Robert Altman, Ross Douthat, Shadow of the Vampire, Sullivan's Travels, Sunset Boulevard, The Player, Tim Robbins, Willem Dafoe, William Holden

Ross Douthat claims the movies are dead. The movies think he’s wrong.

Space Force

The Wrong Stuff

June 3, 2020 Jake Harris 0 Comments Greg Daniels, Jimmy O. Yang, John Malkovich, Lisa Kudrow, Noah Emmerich, Space Force, Steve Carell

Lame ‘Space Force’ explodes on the launch pad

Poirot

The WTF Murders

February 4, 2019February 7, 2019 Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell 0 Comments ABC Murders, Agatha Christie, John Malkovich, Rupert Grint

John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot is a True Mystery

Art Attack

February 3, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Dan Gilroy, Daveed Diggs, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Velvet Buzzsaw

‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ Slices up the Snobs

Bird Box Family

‘Bird Box’ is Bird-Brained

December 28, 2018December 28, 2018 Pablo Gallaga 2 Comments A Quiet Place, Bird Box, John Malkovich, Sandra Bullock

You’ll Want to Wear a Blindfold for This One

Featured Stories

BOOKS Featured Stories

16 New Books To Read in November

November 1, 2026November 4, 2026 Art McPhail 0

From Gary Shteyngart’s pursuit of pleasure to Rachel Maddow’s reckoning with American justice, November brings literary ambition, political urgency and some gloriously strange fiction.

Biography DOCUMENTARY Featured Stories FILM Netflix NON-FICTION Streaming

Norm Was a Vibe

October 31, 2026November 4, 2026 Rob Kutner 1

Featured Stories FILM

Paweł Pawlikowski Drives Us Through a Decimated ‘Fatherland’

October 24, 2026October 28, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

Comedy DOCUMENTARY Featured Stories

But ‘Who is Martin Mull?’

October 21, 2026October 26, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0

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