Dream Scenario: reviews

What the critics say average 8.3 from 5

• 9.0 VarietyPeter Debruge Is this a fantasy? A fable? A new kind of horror movie? Actually, Dream Scenario is all of the above and then some, for it also shares a certain postmodern DNA with two of Cage's most boundary-pushing movies, 'Adaptation' and 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent'. Read
• 9.0 The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen Over the span of his 120-plus film career, Nicolas Cage has been a lot of things ? but he may have never been as flat-out hilarious as he is in 'Dream Scenario'. Read
• 8.3 IndiewireDavid Ehrlich Dream Scenario is simply the best absurdist comedy of its kind since 'Anomalisa' (the Kaufman connection being further cemented by a Cage performance that feels like it was born from superimposing both of his 'Adaptation' characters on top of each other. ...And also by a running joke about antkind). Read
• 8.0 The GuardianCharles Bramesco Too well-schooled in the social physics of the internet to come off as a scold against it, writer-director Kristoffer Borgli dexterously skewers a callous culture that cultivates, digests, and disposes of its novelty acts with the blazing-fast speed of a good WiFi connection. Read
• 7.0 Rolling StoneDavid Fear Part horror movie and part sideways swipe at cancel culture and social pariahdom, 'Dream Scenario' is the sort of high-concept, surreal comedy that Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Charlie Kaufman used to do on the regular. Read