10 Certified Fresh 2014 Movies That Nobody Saw

10. Joe

At first, you have to wonder what an actor like Nicolas Cage is doing in a film like Joe - the film's a low-key, naturalistic character study, the actor's an OTT self-paordy with a face that launched a thousand memes. Then you realise what this is: an intervention, by director David Gordon Green, to show the world again just what Nic Cage can do.

It helps that Joe is built as a platform for the actor to climb back upon, but Cage gives his most subtle, most affecting performance in years in Joe. Not that the film is just about one man; it's a film about thousands of men, all of them tired of living in a part of the world that's been forgotten.

Joe seeks to give life to one of those areas - an atmospheric somewhere in backwoods Texas - and make sense of the men living in it. Green's bright idea is to leave Cage and Tye Sheridan - one of the best young actors around - to it, creating a supremely affecting cinematic father-(surrogate) son drama in the process.