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By Jluis_001 (2,242) on 17 Sep 2021

Among all the latest films Nicolas Cage has starred, Prisoners of the Ghostland doesn't appear as a rarity, even considering all the weird…

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By Metacriticonur (388) on 17 Sep 2021

Bad [ bad ] adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36. not good in any manner or degree…

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By Dom Sinacola (87) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 16 Sep 2021

Ghostland is a movie and place borne from nuclear disaster, populated with the denizens of countless B-movies and the spectres of whiplash…

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By Scott Campbell (94) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 16 Sep 2021

Prisoners of the Ghostland isn't going to be for everyone, but if you're on board with one of the craziest movies you'll see this year, then…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 16 Sep 2021

Prisoners of the Ghostland is equal parts visual delight and narrative head-scratcher…

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By Sarah Bea Milner (33) for Screen Rant (892) on 16 Sep 2021

Hate it or love it, Prisoners of the Ghostland is as unforgettable as it is expressive and provocative, and isn't that the fundamental purpose of art…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 16 Sep 2021

Ultimately, Prisoners of the Ghostland is an OK film by a great filmmaker who has made truly great films, most memorable for its cast and the…

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By Leslie Felperin (768) for The Guardian (2,969) on 16 Sep 2021

The result is predictably excessive, noisy and more than a little exhausting…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 Sep 2021

Prisoners of the Ghostland is less a movie than an environment — not always hospitable but distinctly bizarre…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 16 Sep 2021

Sono’s visuals, sizzlingly realized by the cinematographer Sohei Tanikawa, lack neither brio nor imagination…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 15 Sep 2021

And no, it doesn’t make much sense. Surely this is the strangest movie Cage has ever been in, and that’s saying something…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Sep 2021

What keeps Ghostland from flatlining is Sono’s gift for delirious spectacle, along with the movie’s tacit acknowledgment that it’s utterly…

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

An “Escape From New York”-meets-“Mad Max” ripoff that desperately wants to be a bonkers, midnight drive-in cult classic but doesn’t…

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By Martyn Conterio (121) for CineVue (2,163) on 05 Sep 2021

Sono throws everything at the screen – samurai battles, shootouts, Cage shouting and threatening to karate chops the locals – but it rarely…

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By Stephen A. Russell (22) for Time Out (7,510) on 31 Aug 2021

As envisioned by Japanese director Sion Sono, the brains behind blood-drenched show Tokyo Vampire Hotel and flushed turtle-turned kaiju film…

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By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence (296) on 04 Feb 2021

The question is whether its lol-random approach will appeal to you, or whether its giddy need to throw everything at the wall just flattens…

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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…

Review of Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)

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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