Nicolas Cage's beloved truffle pig is kidnapped in this meditation on loss.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2024

The beauty in Pig is that memory can be cruel, freeing, and redemptive all at once.

| Jul 3, 2024

Cage [gives] his best, most fully realized performance in decades.

| Feb 13, 2024

I missed seeing Pig on its original release, and that was my mistake. Do not make the same one. This is vital, unmissable cinema.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 5, 2023

Cage elevates Sarnoski’s visuals. The actor is a vortex of emotions that quietly burn beneath a lonely exterior.

| Jul 27, 2023

PIG is ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF 2021. It’s not Mandy, it’s not A John Wick Clone, it’s a somber, subdue, & profound film on the meaning in the meaningless of things to others & ourselves.

| Jul 26, 2023

Pig may not be for everyone, but it is still worth the watch. It is a gentle, slow-burn movie, that while not perfect and a bit messy in some places, is undeniably a great piece of cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2023

Pig goes on a mission to redefine traditional masculine roles. There’s an unspoken vulnerability in it that employs unexpected methods and unmanly emotions to highlight something that’s inherently rooted in all men: tenderness.

| Jul 21, 2023

This is perhaps the most empathetic movie of the year, featuring characters with motivations that are clear and easy to understand while still holding plenty of subtle depth.

| May 1, 2023

Pig will haunt you and allow you to contemplate its rich themes if you allow yourself to open up to its cerebral style. In return for opening yourself up, Pig will indeed satisfyingly cleanse your cinephile palette.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 31, 2023

Debutante Sarnoski's austere and modest narrative drive is essential to Cage's luminous performance... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 20, 2022

A rarity. One waits for a proverbial wink to let us know that we're experiencing a strange joke of a film. But the wink never arrives, and once we realize that this is a serious movie, we reach unthinkable dramatic levels. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 16, 2022

This is Cage’s best performance in years... Pig takes the humblest ingredients and delivers a Michelin-star cinematic feast.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 12, 2022

Pig is a solemn yet subtly stirring character study that expertly subverts expectations, elevated by Nicolas Cage ’s best performance in nearly two decades.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022

Sarnoski fully earns our empathy despite not fully satisfying our curiosity.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Sarnoski skews from the customary revenge thriller and plays with the crazed image Cage has constructed in the past decade and a half to bring us something completely unexpected. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 15, 2022

Pig is proof that [Cage] is capable of elevating a film that many will come to watch expecting a good time and will be left with tears in their eyes. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2022

... With a cold mise en scene and a contemplative, sedated rhythm, Pig proves that there isn't a colder dish than a broken, lost soul. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2022

What gives this strange film most of its beauty, emotional brutality, and poignant power is Cage, whose work exudes mystery, and tenderness, and suppressed rage. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2022

It gives the impression that a good part of the film's findings are more found than really sought after, more chance than fair and accurate reflection. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2022