Too defensive and earnest about its topic to be either fun or illuminating.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 17, 2003

Actors generally make good actor's directors, but Sonny is a mixed bag in that department.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 27, 2002

Nicolas Cage isn't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray, and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career.

| Dec 27, 2002

An instant candidate for worst movie of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 27, 2002

Earnest and tentative even when it aims to shock.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 26, 2002

It is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental, and makes clear that a prostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 26, 2002

Amid the clich and foreshadowing, Cage manages a degree of casual realism ... that is routinely dynamited by Blethyn.

Full Review | Dec 25, 2002

The story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin.

Full Review | Dec 23, 2002

As the sulking, moody male hustler in the title role, [Franco] has all of Dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence, but none of his sweetness and vulnerability.

Full Review | Dec 19, 2002

It's as if a bored Cage spent the duration of the film's shooting schedule waiting to scream: "Got AIDS yet?"

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 22, 2002

Cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debut behind the camera.

Full Review | Sep 4, 2002