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Avg. Critic Score: 42 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
15 Iffy for 15+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    Wildly ridiculous and thoroughly entertaining thriller. Read full review

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    A watchably absurd popcorn flick about a man who can see two minutes into the future. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Justin Chang

    What starts out as a mildly diverting thriller blows itself to smithereens in the final reel. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    It starts exploring different facets of its premise and transforms itself into a fairly competent suspense thriller. That's enough to make it respectable, but a few things keep Next from being lovable or memorable. Read full review

  • 50
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    Tamahori attempts to cover the ludicrousness of the story with a wickedly fast pace and sensational action set pieces. And in a film more than an hour and half long, events do whiz by. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    For an action thriller based on a Dick story, Next is peculiarly low-tech and hokey. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    In Next, a crummy action and speculative-fiction hybrid, Nicolas Cage plays a guy who can see into the future two minutes at a time. It's too bad that Mr. Cage couldn't tap into those same powers of divination to save himself from making yet another inexplicably bad choice in roles. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Despite an outlandish premise, Next suffers from being too conventional. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    This implausible action thriller also stars Julianne Moore as an FBI agent who sees Cage's two-bit Vegas act and decides he can single-handedly save the world. Read full review

  • 25
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    An immediately forgettable action pic directed with a blowtorch by Lee Tamahori. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+ Predictable Cage sci-fi tale may entertain teens.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that, like most action thrillers, this movie has several violent scenes: An international terror syndicate is responsible for blowing up a victim, launching a nuclear missile, and slitting the throat of anyone in their way. Nicolas Cage's character gets involved in several fights, and the FBI and the terrorists display enough ammo to fill the national armory. While there's no real gore (or blood, for that matter), the images are still disturbing. There's only one love scene, but there's a lengthy scene preceding it with Jessica Biel wrapped in a towel. Thanks to Biel's popularity and Cage's action cred, expect teens to want to see it, even though it's not being marketed as a teen film.
  • Families can talk about other time-bending movies and TV shows. Are movies that play with time cool or frustrating? If you could look into the future, would you use the information to make money or stop crime? Families can also discuss why so many thrillers feature nuclear terrorist threats. Is that the ultimate danger to today's society? What other hazards can you think of? And why are terrorists almost always portrayed as foreign agents?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: The superhero's creed "with great power comes great responsibility" is in effect. All of the terrorists speak in French or with foreign accents.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: A woman is kidnapped and publicly blown up; two people's throats are slit (not gory). All the terrorists and FBI agents shoot guns, and several are killed. The unarmed hero fights off his enemies.
  • sex false3 Sex: Cris and Liz kiss and in the next scene are bare shouldered in bed together (no nudity is visible, but they've obviously just had sex). One scene features a post-shower Liz wrapped in a short towel.
  • language false3 Language: The usual suspects: "bulls--t," "s--t," "a--hole," "bitch," and the like.
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: Minor: FBI-issued Suburbans and other SUVs, Geneva watches.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Various characters smoke cigarettes. Terrorists take pills to prevent radiation poisoning.
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