...an openly fantastic narrative, with elements of horror cinema and dystopian parable. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 5, 2025

Dream Scenario won’t go down in Cage history as one of his best performances or best films. Interesting concept for sure but beyond that, it would be best to let this film fall into the ether.

| Nov 13, 2024

While Dream Scenario often feels provocative for provocation’s sake, it’s not without its pockets of profundity.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 7, 2024

Borgli examines what happens to one’s self-image when thrust into the spotlight so suddenly, and when that goes wrong, what lasting harm is left?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2024

Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) has a pretty great, if not uneventful life, but he yearns for more. His wants aren't completely out of bounds, he wants recognition, respect and the adoration of his family. Who could ask for anything more?

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jul 8, 2024

Dream Scenario manages to create expectations during its first act, but the promises of something wild or interesting always remain at a distance; we can feel the potential, but the film never goes there

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 3, 2024

Thankfully Borgli never allows his commentary on social media, masculinity, and modern celebrity to obscure the fact that our dreams can always potentially contain the sort of magic that can't always be a part of our waking life.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 10, 2024

Nicolas Cage delivers one of his best films, a study on fame, networks, and dreams. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 21, 2024

When the credits begin, the feeling of having had one of those great dreams interrupted, and that can never be resumed, arises. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 17, 2024

Given the challenge of playing someone who isn’t interesting, Cage does something interesting with every single scene. ... He’s as surprisingly funny in Dream Scenario as he was surprisingly dramatic and endearing in 2021’s Pig.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 29, 2024

While there’s a strong hint of classic Kaufman to the surrealism, there’s nothing cliche or predictable in Dream Scenario.

| Apr 22, 2024

Borgli excels at creating an atmosphere that makes the viewer question whether the scene is happening or a dream. Each dream is like a short and would make a riveting film. It is like having a horror movie short film festival in one movie.

| Apr 12, 2024

It tells us a lot about the ephemerality of fame in the modern world, social media, advertising agencies and, somewhat randomly, technology. Nic Cage is sublime and I can't complain about the supporting performances either. Full review in Spanish,

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2024

More like a dream that you only kinda enjoy, don’t really remember, and feel little need to share with someone else.

| Original Score: C | Mar 18, 2024

There’s a lot going on in the performance, and it can be riveting on a number of levels. But I was left with the nagging feeling that Dream Scenario could’ve and should’ve been more than it is, with a conclusion that matches Cage’s complexity and gusto.

| Mar 15, 2024

Neither a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare, Borgli's far-reaching satire on cancel culture and metatextual reception theory overstays its welcome but finds Nicolas Cage in fantastic form as a victim of his own Jungian conundrum.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 12, 2024

This is a daring project not because of its crazy premise, but because of the almost perfect dissection it makes of a society obsessed with the fame of unknown people... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 4, 2024

This movie is incredibly inventive. Nicolas Cage is fantastic in this role as a man who can't quite deal with all the things that are happening to him that he has no control over.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 2, 2024

Dream Scenario turns its approach into an excuse for a light chapter of 'Black Mirror'. Luckily for everyone, nothing that Talking Heads' music can't fix. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2024

Kristoffer Borgli manages to compose a comedy with the soul of a horror film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2024