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Genre THRILLER
Theme Cyber Thriller
Style Screenlife
Director: Timur Bekmambetov · Cast: Valene Kane, Shazad Latif, Christine Adams, Amir Rahimzadeh
The Story
A journalist builds a fake online identity to investigate how extremist recruiters target young women, and finds herself pulled further into the relationship than the assignment ever called for.
Verdict
This is tackling a genuinely serious, real-world subject, and I think it handles it with more care than I expected going in. Formally, it’s a close cousin to the Unfriended films, and I think the screenlife tension is handled with real skill throughout. Not an easy watch given the subject matter, but a well-made one.
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