Looking Glass

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Looking Glass

R

Released Feb 16, 2018

1h 44m

Mystery & Thriller

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Ray must race to save his wife and himself from a gruesome secret connected to a desert hotel and the strange people who visit there.

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Critics Consensus

Looking Glass gives Nicolas Cage a chance to turn in an atypically understated performance, but this is still a suspense thriller with a fatal dearth of suspense or thrills.

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Eric Kohn

IndieWire

The result is a hollow vehicle that Cage simply floats through on autopilot, and he peers through a mirror at a more exciting world beyond his grasp, it's impossible not to relate.

Rated: D

Feb 20, 2018

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Joe Leydon

Variety

Nicolas Cage dials it down a few notches for a derivate thriller about strange doings at a desert motel.

Feb 18, 2018

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Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

Nicolas Cage's starring presence explains why it's such a compelling and offbeat little thriller.

Rated: 3/4

Feb 16, 2018

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Emilie Black

Cinema Crazed

Looking Glass is a surprisingly not unhinged Nicolas Cage film that works.

Rated: 3.5/5

Apr 12, 2020

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Ryan Pollard

Starburst

Despite being billed as a suspense thriller, there is zero suspense throughout, questions that are raised never answered satisfyingly, and even as it throws a twist towards the end, there are so few characters here that you just don't give a damn about.

Rated: 2/10

Apr 6, 2018

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Alex Arabian

Film Inquiry

Looking Glass wastes its talented cast on poor writing filled with clich after clich, an odd and uninviting artistic vision from the ground up, thinly developed characters, and an overabundance of narratives and plot devices.

Mar 2, 2018

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Iamwhoi M

It could've been better. It's like the movie ended, without the major questions being answered completely. It's been done before, many times. This is not the best example of this basic story onscreen

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

07/20/25

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Stoner J

Minus the last 5 minutes, this is a thrill-less thriller, totally. It’s also dull as heck. It did pique my interest For the entire 1h45min however

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/30/25

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mark g

Spooky and surreal. You'll feel uncomfortable at times, but to me, original filmmaking.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/14/25

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Damien m

This looking glass is trash waste of two hour and bad ending 0 stars if could

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/04/25

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Jeffrey P

The suspense and mystery are solid and the focus good, but the ending lacks the necessary twists and surprises to take it to the next level.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/20/25

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Martin B

Cage earns it 3 stars but it is as bad as the ratings suggest. Superficial is the only way to define it. All the characters and plot superficial, very linear with no sub plots that are explored, camera on Nick Cage all the time the way most of his movies are. A predictible ending, Cage commits multiple felonies then gets in his truck and drives away like they ran out of money and had to end it as if running resolved anything.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/26/24

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Synopsis

Ray must race to save his wife and himself from a gruesome secret connected to a desert hotel and the strange people who visit there.

Director: Tim Hunter
Producer: Braxton Pope, David M. Wulf
Screenwriter: Jerry Rapp
Distributor: Momentum Pictures
Production Co: Highland Film Group
Rating: R (Sexual Content|Language|Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 16, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 16, 2018
Runtime: 1h 44m

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