The Surfer

Name: The Surfer
Genre: Thriller
Released: May 2, 2025
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 67

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Lionsgate | Release Date: May 2, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: A man returns to the idyllic Australian beach of his childhood to surf with his son, but is humiliated by a group of powerful locals and drawn into a conflict that rises with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him right to his breaking point.

Genre(s): Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 99 min

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Perry Norton

Jan 22, 2025

The film bottles beautifully the neo-noir lightning that flashes down under from time to time, with it’s thrilling presentation of a remote beach town that has gone seriously wrong. The rest of it is often mystifying, sometimes maybe just indecisive, but it soon makes you question what you see with some pretty witty plotting. Read full review

Slashfilm Rafael Motamayor

Mar 12, 2025

When it comes to Nicolas Cage movies where he fights insurmountable odds while losing his mind, The Surfer is a great time. Read full review

Amy Nicholson

May 2, 2025

The grief in this film is relatable to anyone who’s realized how hard it is to go home again, whether that means a newly gentrified neighborhood or simply the security of what a middle-class wage used to afford. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

May 19, 2024

In the end, the film feels too rollicking and self-parodying to be taken seriously, but it strikes just the right tone to make it a fun Midnight movie. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

May 15, 2025

The Surfer bites off more than it can existentially chew, but it works well enough. And Cage, McMahon, Cassim and Justin Rosniak, as the stereotypical cop-who-sides-with-the-bullying-locals are terrific — by turns hatefully or ruefully so. Read full review

Phil de Semlyen

May 9, 2025

It’s a lurid psychological horror that’ll thrill midnight movie crowds. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

May 2, 2025

Ultimately, “The Surfer” proves to be not much more than an audience endurance test that offers up plenty of upsetting imagery and moments of emotional torment but never quite manages to make them pay off. Read full review

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