Northern

An interesting concept marred by a deeply irritating main character. Cage has played this pathetic, middle-aged intellectual before to great effect in Adaptation, but Paul Matthews is a man seemingly devoid of all personality save for a mote of ambition and is thus made a passenger and observer in his own life and his own movie. The ending is admittedly well-done but can't do more than blunt the realization that, like Paul, we've gone through all of this just to learn nothing and remain unchanged.

Nicholas Hoult is doing such a good Tom Cruise impression here