Film review: Nicolas Cage is brilliantly cast in The Surfer

Irish director Lorcan Finnegan blends the Surfer’s fever-dream into a stunningly beautiful landscape, heightening the effect of the increasingly surreal episodes
Film review: Nicolas Cage is brilliantly cast in The Surfer

Nicolas Cage in The Surfer

Fri, 09 May, 2025 - 13:00
Declan Burke

The Surfer 

★★★★☆

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