The result? Nearly 90 minutes of wordless Cage beating fluffy mascots with broom handles while hard rock plays on the soundtrack. It could be ironic commentary. Or an art-film stunt. But it's mostly agony.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 20, 2021

It is one gag...and for me, that's a short film, rather than a feature.

| Feb 16, 2021

Turns out, the premise of Nicolas Cage going head-to-head with bloodthirsty animatronics isn't a sure thing after all.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 13, 2021

"Willy's Wonderland" has the garish stop-and-go rhythm of an '80s slasher film, and I mean that as a compliment.

| Feb 13, 2021

It ably fulfills its promise as a bonkers saga about Nicolas Cage battling satanically-possessed fantasy robots in a funhouse restaurant, and really, that's no small accomplishment.

| Feb 13, 2021

At this point, Cage's movies don't have to be reviewed, but rather stamped with official certificates of weirdness.

| Feb 12, 2021

Enjoyment will vary vastly depending on where you fall on the schlocky humor spectrum and your Cage-tolerance level, but it's all surprisingly empty and forgettable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 12, 2021

Cage has been accused of sleepwalking through some of his recent choices, letting the kitschy goodwill of his viral clips from other films do half of his acting for him. That's never been truer than here.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 12, 2021

Building out the world of "Willy's Wonderland" diffuses a lot of its originality.

| Feb 12, 2021

Nobody without a spear through their head could sincerely describe Willy's Wonderland as a good film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 12, 2021

Half-baked and derivative, with a cast of not just one but 0.1-dimensional characters, even those viewers desperate to see Cage punch out a giant, murderous mechanical ostrich for laughs (me! Me!) will only be vaguely amused.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 11, 2021

To its credit, the film doesn't take itself in the slightest bit seriously, because with a premise like that, really how could it?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 10, 2021

Come for Nic Cage fighting a robot alligator with a mop. Stay for some inventive licks on the dead-by-dawn horror-movie template, though the other characters are nothing to shriek about.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 10, 2021