‘Pig’ Is Nicolas Cage’s Most Critically Acclaimed Movie Of His Unpredictable Career

Nicolas Cage has been in a lot of excellent films. Heck, you could do a Nicolas Cage movie marathon for four years and not have to repeat any titles (the Alamo Drafthouse did just that). It’s hard to name a favorite among Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Raising Arizona, Moonstruck, Wild at Heart, Leaving Las Vegas, Con Air, Face/Off, Bringing Out the Dead, National Treasure, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Mandy, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, but, surprisingly, none of those adored films is his most critically-acclaimed work. That distinction belongs to Pig.

With a whopping 98 percent of 126 critics surveyed on Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a positive reaction, Pig — about a lonely truffle hunter who sets out to find the person who stole his titular companion — stands as the 57-year-old’s top-performing movie of all time. Though anything with a rating of 6/10 or above counts as a “positive” score, Pig‘s critical average stands at 8.2/10.

That 98 percent for Pig, the best man and swine movie since The Great Muppet Caper, is one percent higher than Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, four percent higher than Moonstruck, and 90 percent higher than Bangkok Dangerous. He made that one for the fans, not the critics. Congratulations to Nicholas Cage. Congratulations to Brandy.

— Dominic (@le0nardpoetry) July 18, 2021