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Review

Longlegs review – a harrowing serial killer thriller

by Hannah Strong

A rook­ie FBI agent with psy­chic abil­i­ties hunts down a ruth­less ser­i­al killer in Osgood Perkins’ thor­ough­ly unnerv­ing, fan­tas­ti­cal­ly odd horror.

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4
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Review

Dream Scenario review – easy to enjoy, harder to remember

by Mark Asch

Nico­las Cage plays an oth­er­wise unre­mark­able col­lege pro­fes­sor who unex­pect­ed­ly finds him­self appear­ing in peo­ples’ dreams in Kristof­fer Bor­gli’s lat­est satire.

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4
Enjoyment
3
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Review

Renfield

by Hannah Strong

Nicholas Hoult plays Count Dracula’s long-suf­fer­ing ser­vant in Chris McKay’s under­whelm­ing horror-comedy.

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Review

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

by Hannah Strong

Nico­las Cage plays an out-of-work ver­sion of him­self in Tom Gormican’s well-mean­ing but under­whelm­ing meta action-comedy.

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3
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Review

Prisoners of the Ghostland

by Hannah Strong

Mer­chants of chaos Nico­las Cage and Sion Sono team up for a fleet-fist­ed tale of redemp­tion and uprising.

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Review

Pig

by Hannah Strong

Nico­las Cage reveals his sen­si­tive side in Michael Sarnoski’s warm-heart­ed porcine revenge western.

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4
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Review

Color Out of Space

by Kambole Campbell

Nico­las Cage encoun­ters an unholy cos­mic ter­ror in direc­tor Richard Stanley’s HP Love­craft adaptation.

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Enjoyment
3
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Review

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

by Kambole Campbell

Mul­ti­ple Spi­der-Mans makes for out­ra­geous fun in Marvel’s slick, con­stant­ly sur­pris­ing mul­ti­verse animation.

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Enjoyment
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Review

Mandy

by Hannah Strong

Panos Cos­matos unleash­es hell on Nico­las Cage and Andrea Rise­bor­ough in this bloody, psy­che­del­ic headtrip.

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4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Review

Mom and Dad

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Nico­las Cage and Sel­ma Blair are struck by mass hys­te­ria in this lunatic hor­ror-thriller from direc­tor Bri­an Taylor.

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3
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Review

Dog Eat Dog

by David Jenkins

Paul Schrad­er gets sil­ly with a ​’90s-inspired crime caper which prizes stoopid fun above all else.

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Review

The Trust

by Phil W Bayles

Eli­jah Wood and Nico­las Cage play a pair of crooked Las Vegas cops in this breezy heist caper.

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