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By Lorry Kikta (141) for Film Threat (5,156) on 02 Feb 2021

I think that Prisoners of the Ghostland belongs in the category that was previously only really reserved for Jodorowsky’s El Topo, and that…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 02 Feb 2021

The film is held captive by its myriad influences, but Cage is so high-spirited that you won’t mind being its prisoner…

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By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for IGN (1,013) on 02 Feb 2021

You know exactly what brand of “weird” to expect from Nicolas Cage and Sion Sono, but what you might not expect is how much the film feels…

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By Jordan Farley (104) for Total Film (3,532) on 02 Feb 2021

Prisoners of the Ghostland exists entirely outside the norms and conventions of moviemaking. Really there’s only one word to describe it: nuts…

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By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Feb 2021

The actual experience of watching this gonzo dystopian samurai western is far from the shock-a-minute journey that one would expect, but even…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Feb 2021

The film is a profound disappointment in part because it feels so overdetermined to live up to Sion Sono and Nicholas Cage’s respective brands…

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By Matt Patches (283) for Polygon (677) on 01 Feb 2021

It’s one of the director’s more mainstream efforts…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Feb 2021

It’s not very good except sometimes when it’s fantastic…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 01 Feb 2021

Even when nothing else in the film makes sense, the unhinged ethos of its own creation leaves a clue behind with the clarity of a body-chalk outline…

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By Ben Pearson (42) for Slashfilm (971) on 01 Feb 2021

A maniacal whirlwind of cinematic insanity, it feels equally likely that Prisoners of the Ghostland could become a cult classic or disappear…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Feb 2021

Somehow, it doesn’t actually seem surprising that Cage would partner with Sono…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 01 Feb 2021

While the film far outshines most of Cage’s recent efforts (he was direct-to-VOD when direct-to-VOD wasn’t cool) in terms of art direction…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Feb 2021

It alternates between too simplistic and incomprehensible, spending much of its time in between those poles in the I understand, but I don't…

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