Sonny: Critic Reviews

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 26 reviews

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A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

40

Earnest and tentative even when it aims to shock.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Michael Atkinson Village Voice (Top Critic)

Amid the cliche and foreshadowing, Cage manages a degree of casual realism ... that is routinely dynamited by Blethyn.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

As the sulking, moody male hustler in the title role, [Franco] has all of Dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence, but none of his sweetness and vulnerability.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Lisa Nesselson Variety (Top Critic)

Cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debut behind the camera.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

25

An instant candidate for worst movie of the year.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Michael Agger Slate (Top Critic)

Nicolas Cage isn't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray, and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

The story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

70

It is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental, and makes clear that a prostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com

80

This overlooked drama by Nic Cage packs an emotional wallop.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com

50

Back to the housewives with ya, and now that Cage has the vanity project out of his system, he can go back to making more movies with Spike Jonze.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Glenn Kenny Premiere Magazine

25

Too defensive and earnest about its topic to be either fun or illuminating.
Full Review » 9 years ago
MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher

Sunk by way too much indulgence of scene-chewing, teeth-gnashing actorliness.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Brent Simon Entertainment Today

42

There's too much forced drama in this wildly uneven movie, about a young man's battle with his inescapable past and uncertain future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling present.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jan Stuart Newsday

50

Actors generally make good actor's directors, but Sonny is a mixed bag in that department.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Ken Fox TV Guide's Movie Guide

40

It's just plain lurid when it isn't downright silly.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Bob Strauss Los Angeles Daily News

63

Enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts ... What is sorely missing, however, is the edge of wild, lunatic invention that we associate with Cage's best acting.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Emily Blunt Blunt Review

88

Author John Carlen has abstrusely captured that struggle of one man simply trying to be human in nonhuman, vile, circumstances.
Full Review » 9 years ago
E! Online

0

Keep your day job, Nicolas Cage. This shockingly inept directorial debut reveals the brooding actor to be a hackneyed helmer.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Carlo Cavagna AboutFilm.com

59

Franco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler, but he does not give the transcendent performance SONNY needs to overcome gaps in character development and story logic.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Ernest Hardy L.A. Weekly

Preposterous and tedious, Sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that, unfortunately, occurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Bruce Feld Film Journal International

John Carlen's script is full of unhappy, two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Wade Major Boxoffice Magazine

40

A well-intentioned effort that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Harvey S. Karten Compuserve

75

An engrossing and grim portrait of hookers: what they think of themselves and their clients.
Full Review » 10 years ago