Kurt Loder Reviews Mandy and The House with a Clock in Its Walls: New at Reason

This week Kurt Loder takes a look at Mandy and The House with a Clock in Its Walls. A snippet:

Nicolas Cage is of course perfect for Mandy, the wonderfully wild and way-overcranked new midnight movie by Canadian director Panos Cosmatos. It’s easy to forget that Cage was once awarded an Oscar (for the 1995 Leaving Las Vegas), and it’s good to see that he’s still able to make something warmly human out of the first half of the movie, in which his character, a gentle logger named Red Miller, mostly trades nuzzles and murmurs with his doomed sweetie, a haunted-looking artist named Mandy Bloom (Andrea Riseborough). But Cage is also the actor (and the desperate tax delinquent) who has given us such crap classics as Bangkok Dangerous, Ghost Rider, and the insane Wicker Man remake (“Not the bees! Not the bees!“). So when the movie swerves out on a highway to hell in its second half, the Nic is ready to roll.

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