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'The Surfer' starring Nicolas Cage, hits U.S. theaters in May, Australia will have to wait another six months. Unlike past (mostly terrible) Hollywood takes on surf culture, it leans into satire—skewering localism as a reaction to gentrification, tribalism among young men, the post-woke reclaiming of masculinity, and social media’s self-help era.

Review: Is ‘The Surfer’ the Ultimate Surf Film? 

Nicolas Cage stars in a psychedelic surf movie that basically takes the piss out of all of us. 

Words by Seth Gabrielsson
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