The Trust is a heist movie that gives Nicolas Cage his juiciest performance since Kick-Ass and indulges some very kooky Cageian line readings.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2016

There are foetuses that would be more convincing in the role of a jaded lawman than Wood. You can festoon him with hookers and drug paraphernalia - he still looks like a newly hatched baby bird.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 29, 2016

Cage is on fine form in this slick little thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2016

Wood, a very long way removed from his Lord of the Rings glory days, is a womanising, drug-taking small timer, essentially decent but easily led astray by his friend. They're on the road to nowhere and that's where the film is headed too.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2016

There's little in the way of tension, surprise or consistency, and the disappointing ending leaves questions about the point of the whole exercise.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2016

Tune into its offbeat frequency ... and there is much to enjoy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2016

Though far from a Rififi-grade nailbiter, it builds to an involving moment of truth.

| May 13, 2016

The movie gets a lot less interesting once it starts to go dark, so to speak, and the elements of the story that you had identified as red herrings earlier on turn out to be, yup, red herrings.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 13, 2016

"The Trust" betrays its hidden wispiness as the comic edge dissipates and a dreary darkness takes over.

| May 12, 2016

Wood and Cage have a terrific dynamic together.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 12, 2016

The script, by Adam Hirsch and Benjamin Brewer, is full of both humor and menace, giving the actors plenty to work with. That makes for an enjoyably slow buildup to an unexpected ending.

| May 12, 2016

"The Trust" is a so-so heist movie whose dirty-cop character's personality must have been described in the screenplay as "Nicolas Cage-esque." Fortunately, Cage was available.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 12, 2016

This dog is dead on arrival, and except for one weird comic performance by the star, there's no hope for reviving a pulse.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 12, 2016

Lean and mostly likable, The Trust moves swiftly through the planning stages of the big score-chasing a money trail, going undercover as wage slaves, securing equipment-before slowing to a tense crawl once the big day arrives.

| Original Score: B- | May 12, 2016

Throughout Alex and Benjamin Brewer's film, Nicolas Cage holds the screen with his distinct timing and expressive force of being.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 10, 2016

If you take the sit back and relax approach to The Trust, there's a good deal of fun to be had with Cage's wacky performance. But, if you dare give the scenario a second thought it could easily extinguish the thrill of the film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2016

Cage supplies a stream of tension-defusing laughs while the script steadily applies the screws, but this disposable exercise in comic nihilism offers only a modest payoff at best.

| Mar 14, 2016

The set-up is familiar by caper standards (Ocean's Eleven on a lower budget, where the cops are robbers) - what sets it apart is Cage's brazenly bizarre performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 14, 2016