Film review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is funny, poignant and self-aware

It may well prove one of the high points of Nic Cage’s long and varied career
Film review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is funny, poignant and self-aware

Nicolas Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 

Fri, 22 Apr, 2022 - 13:22
Declan Burke

★★★★☆

Ever since he first dazzled Hollywood back in the ’80s, Nick Cage (Nicolas Cage) has manfully shouldered The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (15A).

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