It’s a terrific role for Cage, whose widest smile always contains a flicker of anguish. And Caine is excellent as the unattainable father figure in this enjoyably downbeat tale of the flipside of career success

| Dec 13, 2023

Written by Steve Conrad, this is the smartest script director Gore Verbinski has ever had, and he makes the most of it, aided by a strong cast.

| Jun 28, 2022

It's a deeply honest and comic performance and seems filled with all the genuine humiliations that one imagines Cage himself has suffered in the past 10 years.

| Jan 17, 2018

Yet another retread of Cage's weak formula of a gloomy man examining his life.

| Aug 16, 2013

The Weather Man is more of a parable than a story; it just goes on and on and on, and the only point is to endure. It's not very uplifting, but sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's sad; sometimes hopeful, and sometimes melancholy. But that's life.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 7, 2011

Intended as director Gore Verbinski's palate cleanser before back-to-back "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequels, this is an apprehensive cringe comedy of male malaise. It's also Verbinski's best to date, a small-scale challenge he should attempt more often.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 2, 2010

If you've never heard of a "living funeral," this film is an icy introduction.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 17, 2009

A look at the commonest fear nipping at the heart of Middle America. Not the war in Iraq, nor terrorism, but the breakdown of the family unit and how - and if - people can cope with it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 14, 2008

Narrated by Nic Cage in a zombie-like monotone, this flick is not only gross and morose, but relentlessly depressing.

| Original Score: 0/4 | May 30, 2007

One can imagine this film as a nasty, edgy, biting little indie. But all dressed up in slick Hollywood finery, it has nowhere to go.

| Mar 1, 2007

It may look bleak, but there's still some beauty.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 17, 2006

A bleak, messy midlife crisis drama as unsure of itself as a weather forecast.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 4, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Dave Spritz is a shallow creation, one that even an actor of Cage's talents cannot bring to three dimensional life. The problem gets worse: we wouldn't much care for him even if he were real.

| Mar 16, 2006

Cage is superb in the lead, brilliantly conveying David's confusion with some well chosen blankly bewildered looks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2006

It may be rather mopey and languid, but this intensely introspective comedy has the ability to get under our skin.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2006

Few movie characters of late have been so expertly crafted as Dave Spritz.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 19, 2006

H filmes que so assim; funcionam justamente porque te mandam para fora do cinema em um estado de profunda reflexo.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2006

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 23, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005