Quentin Tarantino calls this Nicolas Cage movie one of the best of the last five years

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Nicolas Cage has a instrumentality successful Quentin Tarantino.

Speaking connected nan Video Archives Podcast, Tarantino spent a conception showering Cage pinch praise — and spotlighting 1 circumstantial movie arsenic his astir caller favorite.

“In watching immoderate of nan Nic Cage stuff, nan 1 that blew maine distant was that movie he did, Pig,” Tarantino said. “That’s 1 of nan champion of nan past 5 years. That’s 1 of nan champion movies I’ve seen successful nan past 5 years.”

Directed by Michael Sarnoski, Pig stars Cage arsenic Robin “Rob” Feld, an Oregon truffle huntsman who returns to Portland to hunt for nan personification who kidnapped his pig. Pig garnered important captious acclaim, and Cage received respective acting nominations from critics organizations. Tarantino appreciates Pig’s imaginative guidance and really it diverged from Cage’s erstwhile work.

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“He deserves to beryllium proud of it … that feline who directed it did a slayer job. He did a really, really terrific job,” Tarantino added. “One of nan things that’s awesome astir it, particularly aft watching each nan ‘revenge-o-matics’ we’ve seen, nan movie sets it up for illustration each nan revenge-o-matics Nic Cage seems to person done successful nan past 5 years … this sets itself up to beryllium that, only to decidedly not spell down that roadworthy successful nan astir imaginative measurement possible.”

While Tarantino’s appraisal of Pig is a communal belief held by galore cinephiles, nan Pulp Fiction director’s positive comments astir Joker: Folie à Deux were very polarizing.

“I really, really liked it, really. A lot. Like, tremendously, and I went to spot it expecting to beryllium impressed by nan filmmaking,” Tarantino said astir Joker 2 in a caller question and reply connected The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. “I’m conscionable nihilistic capable to benignant of bask a movie that doesn’t rather activity arsenic a movie aliases that’s for illustration a big, elephantine messiness to immoderate degree. And I didn’t find it an intelligence exercise. I really sewage caught up into it. I really liked nan philharmonic sequences.”

Stream Pig connected Hulu aliases Disney+.