Ranking Every Nicolas Cage Movie Worst To Best

The definitive Nic Cage rankings.

Nicolas Cage Face Off Mandy Adaptation
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Love him, hate him, or simply puzzled by him, there is no actor quite like Nicolas Cage.

On one hand an Oscar-winning, bonafide movie star, and on the other a performer who will seemingly appear in just about anything in order to lower his colossal tax bill, Cage boasts one of the most diverse and inexplicable filmographies of any actor working today.

Though he's certainly lent his name to countless unworthy projects over the years, you can't often accuse Cage of just phoning it in for an easy payday or not putting in the requisite effort, no matter how bad the script might be.

But when the material is right, Cage will spin glorious gold out of it every time. And so, running down his 91 major movies - excluding tiny cameo roles as in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Grindhouse - it's time to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Chronicling Nicolas Cage's four decades in the film 'biz, follow our journey from unrepentant cinematic garbage through to the verified masterpieces littered throughout the career of the man, the myth, the legend...

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