Looking Glass

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Looking Glass

R

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

Feb 20, 2018

D

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.

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Joe Leydon

Variety

Feb 18, 2018

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

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Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

Feb 16, 2018

3/4

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

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Emilie Black

Cinema Crazed

Apr 12, 2020

3.5/5

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

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Ryan Pollard

Starburst

Apr 6, 2018

2/10

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.

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Alex Arabian

Film Inquiry

Mar 2, 2018

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.

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Charlie G

@RT17494878 Aug 24, 2026

Good acting from Cage, and really nice use of color, but I kept waiting for things to start happening and the tension to ramp up, yet it never really did. It's like something cool is about to happen, and that's the entirety of the movie. It's a shame because this could have been really cool. Instead it just goes nowhere. Skippable.

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Jeffrey K

@Jeffreyw Aug 9, 2026

Slow-moving and not very exciting. I gave it 3 stars because I'm a Nic Cage fan.

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Cristian s

@cristiansj Jan 10, 2026

Una historia confusa y bastante mala en general pero llevada de manera bastante decente en cuanto a ritmo así que resulta medianamente llevadera para terminar de verla.

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Iamwhoi M

@Shaboutiques Jul 20, 2025

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

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Stoner J

@Stoner May 30, 2025

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

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mark g

@Mark_Alan_G. Apr 14, 2025

Spooky and surreal. You'll feel uncomfortable at times, but to me, original filmmaking. Quite surprised by the negative reviews. This is beautifully shot and well acted, very noir.

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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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