
Empire Magazine
Once in a while, Pig falls into middlebrow foodie-movie cliches... but for the most part, debuting writer-director Michael Sarnoski seasons his tale of personal apocalypse with a light hand.
Full reviewNicolas Cage plays a quiet truffle hunter living alone in the Oregonian wilderness. When someone kidnaps his beloved foraging pig, he returns to Portland and confronts his past to find the people responsible.
Nicolas Cage brings home the bacon in this bruised, thoughtful revenge story - it's surprisingly sad and serious. Give the man his pig back, for god's sake.
Once in a while, Pig falls into middlebrow foodie-movie cliches... but for the most part, debuting writer-director Michael Sarnoski seasons his tale of personal apocalypse with a light hand.
Full review(Cage) offers something genuinely special: a perfect performance, and one which could not exist without every other performance that the actor has ever delivered.
Full reviewPig doesn't give viewers much to care about, other than perhaps the title character.
Full reviewNicolas Cage delivers a performance of simmering greatness, grabbing every inch of the screen without hamming it up...
Full review(Pig) digs beneath the surface, but to a shallower depth than it seems to think.
Full reviewPig is considerably smarter and more ardent than it appears at first glance, and unearths treasures that are barely evident on the surface level.
Full reviewA sad but not unkind movie, and certainly not a pessimistic one, Pig puts its faith in a discerning audience to look past its premise.
Full review(Pig's) commitment to its own oddball vision is what makes it linger in the mind.
Full reviewThere's a rigour to the filmmaking and a surreal beauty to Pat Scola's images that seal our investment in Robin's fate.
Full reviewCage's contained performance embraces his character's losses and his turning away from the world without the slightest play for sympathy.
Full reviewA familiar revenge thriller setup turns into something quieter and stranger with an unusually restrained performance from (Nicolas Cage)...
Full review(Pig) features a measured, meticulous performance from Nicolas Cage, who turns his usual explosiveness inward...
Full reviewPig is not the movie you think it is. It's something far more beautiful, and far more painful...
Full reviewPig is unexpectedly touching; as a showcase for Cage's brilliance, it's a revelation.
Full reviewPig is a little too in love with its own moroseness - which is to say, it could use a joke or two - but its devotion to its alienated protagonist is cumulatively moving.
Full reviewPig (2021) is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Academy On Demand and AroVision.
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