The Dying of the Light 2014

Kyle Smith, New York Post: [A] dim, dull effort ... Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: A weirdly misshapen, fitfully intriguing depiction of one man's wayward quest for justice, plainly compromised in ways that only a director's cut could properly illuminate. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: It plays out as a more or less conventional direct-to-video-style thriller, distinguished by a handful of subtexts and images that might have been developed in a different version, but here register as mere quirks. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: Cage's loop-di-loop performance, the movie's surviving asset, at least hints at the themes of institutional illness and mortal decline that must have fascinated Schrader. Read more

Tomas Hachard, NPR: The rushed and often inchoate execution means there's little in the film that gets the benefit of more than a moment's reflection. Read more

Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News: Another entry in Schrader's last-lonely-man canon, "Dying of the Light" is thin gruel as a thriller. Read more

Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times: On a commercial level, "Dying of the Light" sometimes plays as just another high-concept vehicle for a comically overacting Mr. Cage. But Mr. Schrader's vision is strong enough to rage against the hackier calculations. Read more