Pig

Everything about the premise promises a revenge thriller — a reclusive truffle hunter, a beloved animal taken, Nicolas Cage. The film quietly declines all of it. What unfolds instead is slow, grief-stricken, and almost unbearably gentle: a story about loss, about the things we make to avoid feeling it, and about a man who has decided not to perform his pain for anyone. Cage gives one of his most restrained performances. It keeps refusing violence in favor of something harder, and arrives somewhere genuinely moving by the time it lets him cook a single meal.