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By Karen Han (178) for Slate (2,081) on 15 Jul 2021

Pig is a small film with a few big surprises executed very well, and well worth going into as blind as possible…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 15 Jul 2021

It’s my favorite Cage performance in some time, after overly bizarre turns in recent years as a murderous parent in Mom and Dad and an inmate…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 14 Jul 2021

It’s a rustic, poetic, occasionally funny, sometimes heartbreaking and wonderfully strange and memorable character study of a man who is…

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By Jacob Oller (247) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 14 Jul 2021

Part of Pig’s impactful, moving charm is its restraint. It’s a world only hinted at in 87 minutes, but with a satisfying emotional thoroughness…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 13 Jul 2021

Like the character at the heart of Pig — who is not, as it turns out, a pig at all, even metaphorically — it is smoldering and gentle…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 13 Jul 2021

It's attentive to regret and failure in ways that American films tend to avoid for fear of bumming viewers out and making them warn other people…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Jul 2021

Like the animal itself, Pig is considerably smarter and more ardent than it appears at first glance, and unearths treasures that are barely…

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By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for IGN (1,013) on 13 Jul 2021

Pig subverts the expectations of the average revenge-thriller and accentuates the deep emotional scars that often underscore these stories…

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By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 13 Jul 2021

Pig is not the movie you think it is. It’s something far more beautiful, and far more painful…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 13 Jul 2021

If this seems like a bit of a deep dive when the subject is trendy restaurants in Portland, Pig is a serious movie with heady themes that just…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 13 Jul 2021

Pig is a thoughtful, well-made movie for an audience primed for junk: It’s pearls before swine…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Jul 2021

At a time when so many people are struggling to find something of value in their lives, when people are fleeing jobs, cities, futures they…

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By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence (296) on 12 Jul 2021

Sarnoski’s debut is a scintillating tone poem about the inextricable links between love, creativity, and commerce, and what happens when…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 12 Jul 2021

Pig hangs on Cage’s soulful intensity in the part, a man who used to be somebody who, as one contemptuous old acquaintance hisses “doesn’t…

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By Andrew Crump (271) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Jul 2021

There’s no action here, no real revenge to take, but there’s a meaty, idiosyncratic, and especially moving story about finding peace in loss…

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By Michael Nordine (446) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Jul 2021

As a descent into the apparently high-stakes world of truffle-pig-poaching, Pig is unexpectedly touching; as a showcase for Cage’s brilliance,…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jul 2021

Nicolas Cage, in full martyr mode here, seems to get off on the perversity of, well, caging his brand of operatic hysteria…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 12 Jul 2021

Cage is remarkably restrained (bar one unnecessary scream), delicately deconstructing what we’ve come to expect from him…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Jul 2021

Pig isn’t the gripping mystery Sarnoski might have intended, but as a crawl through the underbelly of a hipster city’s glamorous foodie…

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