Is there anything more “midnight movie” than Nicolas Cage in a chainsaw fight?

A man's plan to murder a prostitute goes awry in Nicolas Pesce uninvolving dark comedy, "Piercing."

What a deliciously demented and disturbing drama Nicolas Pesce’s “Piercing” is, dripping with gore and laden with forbidden innuendo. If one has any fa...

Mia Wasikowska and Christopher Abbott anchor this fleet-footed, compelling S&M mood piece.

In Piercing, Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska play S&M cat-and-mouse games: EW review

Mia Wasikowska doesn't know what Christopher Abbott has planned for her in Nicolas Pesce's intimate sex-and-violence thriller 'Piercing.'

Mia Wasikowska and Christopher Abbott are quirky and engaging in Nicolas Pesce’s adaptation of Ryu Murakami’s cult novel

Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska star in Nicolas Pesce's wacky Sundance tale of crazy fetishes that's more sketch than movie.

A father brandishing an icepick over his infant girl is how “Piercing” opens, and by the time that icepick figures into this disturbed man’s hotel room...

Mia Wasikowska and Christopher Abbot play wicked games in this psychosexual horror

Christopher Abbott plays a character who thinks his baby is telling him to commit murder and dismemberment.

Piercing is an unsuccessful provocation, and I didn't get anything out of it beyond a few wispy ideas about how we may never really understand what we want f...

'Piercing's take on Ryu Murakami's S&M/murder love story doesn't break the thematic surface — but what a gorgeous surface. Our review.

Mia Wasikowska and Christopher Abbott star in this great, if grisly, genre outing from Nicolas Pesce

Based on a novel by Japan's Ryu Murakami, Nicolas Pesce's film triggers comparisons to Hitchcock, Argento and Lynch.

A marriage between the gorgeously disturbing imagery Nicolas Pesce delivered via his debut The Eyes of My Mother and the surreally warped sensibilities of Au...

"Piercing" is a sibling of Takashi Miike’s "Audition," and not by accident, as both films are based on novels by Ryu Murakami.

★★☆☆☆Curiouser and curiouser. It is certainly a left-field move for Mia Wasikowska, who played Alice in Tim Burton’s Wonderland films, to play an...

The talents of Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska are wasted in this disappointing sophomore effort from Nicolas Pesce ("The Eyes of My Mother")

An orderly murder takes a twist in Nicolas Pesce's stunning but bloodless black comedy.

Nicolas Pesce’s latest, starring Mia Wasikowska and Christopher Abbott, is alternately alluring and repellent.