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Keener's Maxine is so glamorously, tantalizingly self-contained that you can almost believe she never dreams of being John Malkovich.
When a sleek and derisive colleague named Maxine (Catherine Keener) rebuffs his advances and mocks his art, Craig argues passionately on behalf of his puppets: He says that everyone longs to be inside someone else's head.
Leaving his harried wife (Catherine Keener) and infant daughter in wintry Pennsylvania, the detective travels from Cleveland to North Carolina to the subterranean S/M parlors of Los Angeles to a production office in the meat market of New York City.
The scenes between Cusack and Keener boast the best emasculating banter since Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy , and when Lotte and Maxine begin to communicate erotically through Malkovich's body, the film becomes a transsexual (and transcendental) screwball comedy.
Even more dazzling is Keener, an actress who has lately been stuck playing nice, sensible women but who here is all silken curves and withering putdowns--she greets Craig's declaration of love with a pitying sigh that brings the house down.