Caged

Caged is most effective when it's focused on Harlow's paranoiac certainty that nobody on the outside of his cell cares for, or even really sees what he's going through.

"Caged" is really only worth your time if you want to experience how much solitary confinement sucks. If that is a conclusion you've already come to in life, feel free to skip it.

his taught psychological thriller further examines the effects on the psyche of incarceration as well wider comment on the justice system in America.

'Caged' is a candid look at how a flawed prison system robs an individual of his humanity while espousing its mission of rehabilitation.

It's disorienting by design, and should lend feeling to a bigger conversation of true justice for people of color and the inhumanity of solitary confinement.

An interesting take on a very real issue. Caged is a sufficient film about solitary confinement and its horrific effects.

A strong lead performance and unflinching depiction of solitary confinement make this a compelling look at what is essentially legalized torture.

The problem is it spends so much time dragging these things out that by the time you get to the resolution, you kinda just don't care one way or the other.

Melodramatic and more than a little overwrought, this nerve-jangling prison drama has a vividly theatrical style that plays up pulp-style grit along with almost fantastical psychological touches.

Gathegi gives it his all, but the film that surrounds him is regrettably uninterested in offering either narrative novelty or thematic clarity.