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Dream Scenario

Absurdist dark comedy

A rather dull college professor (Nicolas Cage) gets his world turned upside down when people he’s never met start seeing him in their dreams. 

Some people don’t care for Nic Cage. I get that. But I like him for his self-awareness and willingness to make fun of his own overblown style of acting. Rent his boundary-pushing Adaptation or The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent to better understand what I mean. 

This one’s hard to categorize. Fantasy, most definitely. Horror, undeniably. But Cage is also flat-out hilarious (albeit very darkly so). Kristoffer Borgli’s film is a welcome skewering of our callous and dismissive cancel culture and social media, and the strange power of celebrity. And it gives its star plenty of opportunities to, well, be Nicolas Cage. (102 min)