No one does raging unlovability quite like John Malkovich, who’s a total gas when he drops the bombast that often bogs down his more serious roles. Not that Buck Howard, the once-great mentalist now ...

I mean the following statement as a 100% compliment: the thing that makes John Malkovich such a great actor is that his characters always seem a little deranged. Not deranged in a dangerous and ...

"The Great Buck Howard" is a little movie that contains one very big performance, a show biz fable that gets at the nature of celebrity and success with subtlety, humor and a little bit of magic.