Movie Review: An unhinged John Malkovich can't help the cult-horror misfire 'Opus'

How 'Opus' crafted John Malkovich's twisted, 'original' pop star with Nile Rodgers

"What he said several times was that he didn't think that I was going to be able to do it,” writer-director Mark Anthony Green recalls.A24 John Malkovich and Ayo Edebiri in 'Opus'John Malkovich, in a very John Malkovich role, plays a twisted pop star in Opus, A24’s incisive horror film about the cult of toxic fandom. The actor, who has built a career playing deliciously inscrutable villains, stars as Alfred Moretti, an enigmatic pop icon who, af…

Movie Review: An unhinged John Malkovich can't help the cult-horror misfire 'Opus'

In the new horror movie “Opus,” we are introduced to Alfred Moretti, the biggest pop star of the ’90s, with 38 No. 1 hits and albums as big as “Thriller,” “Hotel California” and “Nebraska.”

Opus review - Ayo Edebiri is excellent in half-baked cult thriller

Ayo Edebiri is one of the only highlights of this derivative and unsatisfying cult thriller.

Opus - An entertaining version of a movie you’ve seen before - ScullyVision

Opus is a solid movie, but it’s one I’ve seen before many times, most recently in Midsommar, a film that was itself derivative of many which came before. But whereas Ari Aster’s masterpiece was able to synthesize its influences into something new, writer/director Mark Anthony Green’s take on the “oops, I’ve been suckered into visiting a cult and now I’m stuck” genre is mostly just a slick Greatest Hits reel. That said, formula is formula for a r…