Pig

Though the film is teed up as a kind of John Wick-style revenge bender, Cage's star persona is soon smartly subverted.

Pig shouldn't be a revelation to anyone who's been following these men's careers, but it's a perfect reminder of how easily we can underestimate people.

Action-packed and yet gently meditative.

His most contemplative performance in years, a reminder of a time when David Lynch hailed Cage as "the jazz musician of American acting".

This is the movie for which the term sui generis was invented.

Anyone who's been keeping faith with Nicolas Cage, through all his career's snaking cul-de-sacs and mad escapades, has a tremendous reward in store when they sit down to Pig.

A unique pleasure of a movie.

With its sullen mood very carefully kept from crossing the line into comedy, where it could easily have gone, Pig unspools as a thoughtful, if undemanding cinematic tone poem about one man's reluctant journey back into a world he had turned his back on.

One of the most unusual, touching and humanistic films about love and loss in recent years.

With arguably Nicolas Cage's best-ever performance in a feature film, a deep psychological and humanised story and a striking score by Alexis Grapsas and Philip Klein, Michael Sarnoski's feature debut is a true tour de force.