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.
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Pig (2021)
Nicolas 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.
2021Rating: M, Violence & offensive language91 minsUSA
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Pig (2021) / Reviews
The Globe and Mail
(Cage) offers something genuinely special: a perfect performance, and one which could not exist without every other performance that the actor has ever delivered.
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Salon
Pig doesn't give viewers much to care about, other than perhaps the title character.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Nicolas Cage delivers a performance of simmering greatness, grabbing every inch of the screen without hamming it up...
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Rolling Stone
(Pig) digs beneath the surface, but to a shallower depth than it seems to think.
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A.V. Club
Pig is considerably smarter and more ardent than it appears at first glance, and unearths treasures that are barely evident on the surface level.
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Paste
A sad but not unkind movie, and certainly not a pessimistic one, Pig puts its faith in a discerning audience to look past its premise.
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RogerEbert.com
(Pig's) commitment to its own oddball vision is what makes it linger in the mind.
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The New York Times
There's a rigour to the filmmaking and a surreal beauty to Pat Scola's images that seal our investment in Robin's fate.
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Hollywood Reporter
Cage's contained performance embraces his character's losses and his turning away from the world without the slightest play for sympathy.
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The Guardian
A familiar revenge thriller setup turns into something quieter and stranger with an unusually restrained performance from (Nicolas Cage)...
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IGN
(Pig) features a measured, meticulous performance from Nicolas Cage, who turns his usual explosiveness inward...
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Slash Film
Pig is not the movie you think it is. It's something far more beautiful, and far more painful...
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Variety
Pig is unexpectedly touching; as a showcase for Cage's brilliance, it's a revelation.
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Slant Magazine
Pig 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.
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