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Film Review — Opus

Film Review — Opus

John Malkovich is on gloriously deranged form as a pop star cult leader in Mark Anthony Green’s enjoyably preposterous horror-thriller

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Mar 17, 2025
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Fans of John Malkovich will doubtless get a big kick out of Opus. As 90s pop megastar Alfred Moretti, he is at once a deliriously flamboyant, theatrical performance artist with something sinister lurking behind the expected charm and egomania. Given Malkovich’s baggage as an actor with a wonderfully self-deprecating sense of h…

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