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Halloween Horror: Longlegs (2024)

Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs is an inconsistent mishmash of The Silence of the Lambs and Cure.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromOctober 31, 2024Osgood Perkins, Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota Daulby, Kiernan Shipka, Longlegs, Halloween Horror, horrorComment

Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)

Weighed down by its deliberately conventional plotting, this Nicolas Cage meta movie still amuses, thanks largely to Cage and Pedro Pascal’s easygoing chemistry.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMay 18, 2022The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Tom Gormican, Kevin Etten, Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan, Tiffany Haddish, Ike Barinholtz, Alessandra Mastronardi, Jacob Scipio, Neil Patrick HarrisComment

Review: Con Air (1997)

Simon West’s action classic leans into every absurdity of 1990s filmmaking, defining its entertainment ethos, without capturing its art.

Review: National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

Like its predecessor, National Treasure: Book of Secrets is an exercise in nostalgic nationalism, but also a goofily entertaining adventure film.

Review: National Treasure (2004)

In 2020, National Treasure is as much a historical artifact as the American landmarks it features in its adventure narrative, but it’s still fun.

Flash Back, Reviews, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromAugust 19, 2020Jon Turteltaub, Jim Kouf, Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley, Nicolas Cage, Harvey Keitel, Jon Voight, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, Justin Bartha, Christopher Plummer, National TreasureComment

Review: Color Out of Space (2019)

Richard Stanley’s adaptation, Color Out of Space, shows how deeply the science fiction horror genre is indebted to Lovecraft.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnders BergstromFebruary 14, 2020Color Out of Space, Richard Stanley, Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Tommy Chong, Q'Oriana Kilcher, Madeleine Arthur, Eliot KnightComment

Review: The Rock (1996)

Pop cinema is rarely so satisfying.

TIFF13: Joe (2013)

A grim and gritty regional drama featuring a great Nicolas Cage.

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 11, 2013David Gordon Green, drama, gritty, Joe, Mud, Nic Cage, Nicolas Cage, regionalism, TIFF, TIFF13, Toronto International Film Festival, Tye SheridanComment

Thursday Rethink: Nicolas Cage is a Good Actor

Nicolas Cage is one of the most dedicated actors working today.

Features, Thursday RethinkAren BergstromMarch 8, 2012Nicolas Cage, The Bad Lieutenant, Thursday Rethink Comments

Review: Season of the Witch (2011)

A historical fantasy of staggering incompetence.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 20, 2011Dominic Sena, historical fantasy, Nicolas Cage, Season of the Witch, witchcraft Comments