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By Robert H (1,967) on 28 Dec 2014

In all fairness, it was not Cage's fault that the story and the film making were very dull, and uninteresting, just his fault that he did the…

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By Angel D (176) on 24 Dec 2014

I'm a big Nicolas Cage fan but this was a waste of time…

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By Ian C (1,796) on 22 Dec 2014

Another piece of shit from the great man. I thought that this pair up with Paul Schrader would mean it would be have decent but I was wrong…

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By Lowbrowcinema (138) on 14 Dec 2014

After the absolutely brilliant THE CANYONS, which I could watch daily and basically have, Paul Schrader returns to writing/directing with DYING…

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By Maximus F (31) on 14 Dec 2014

Schrader's been off his screenwriting game for 15+ years now, but it's still fun watching him direct an overacting Nic Cage…

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By Michael L (2,383) on 14 Dec 2014

After the absolutely brilliant THE CANYONS, which I could watch daily and basically have, Paul Schrader returns to writing/directing with DYING…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 12 Dec 2014

What remains isn't exactly terrible, but it's also not particularly sharp or fresh, and not really worthy of a filmmaker of Schrader's reputation…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 11 Dec 2014

After the wretchedness of Schrader's last picture, 2013's The Canyons, it surprises me that anyone would want to see what the helmer originally…

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By Jake Mulligan (34) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 11 Dec 2014

Schrader's direction, alternatively, often gives in to the standard-issue cop-movie nature of his screenplay…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 10 Dec 2014

Maybe Schrader's preferred version wouldn't have been a better movie, but at least it might have matched the oddball intensity of its lead…

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By Ana G (183) on 08 Dec 2014

It is a known fact that now days Nicholas Cage's movies cant be trusted (Well even though I still watch almost anything he does), this film…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 06 Dec 2014

The only real tension you feel in Dying of the Light is that between the thoughtful, tough-minded character piece Schrader presumably thought…

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By Jack Giroux (142) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 05 Dec 2014

Despite all the glaring issues, there's a handful of moments that show signs of life and of a superior film…

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By Tomas Hachard (101) for NPR (1,713) on 05 Dec 2014

The rushed and often inchoate execution means there's little in the film that gets the benefit of more than a moment's reflection…

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By Lankester Merrin (1) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Dec 2014

The Dying of the Light isn't so much a massacred film as a dismembered one…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 05 Dec 2014

If only Dying of the Light had broken Schrader's recent close-but-no-cigar streak…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 05 Dec 2014

A legendary director’s unsullied cut of Dying Of The Light would almost certainly be more interesting than the version the studio is dumping…

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By Stahl M (67) on 05 Dec 2014

Given all the faffing around that has happened behind the scenes with this movie, which it has technically been in development hell for over…

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By Liam C (674) on 05 Dec 2014

Given all the faffing around that has happened behind the scenes with this movie, which it has technically been in development hell for over…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Dec 2014

Whatever Dying of the Light was intended to be, the end result is feature-length sleeping pill with car chases…

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