Searching movie review: real virtuality
With smarts, warmth, and humanity, this mystery that unfurls entirely on computer screens becomes an ode to the new digital lives we are all leading, from how we use our devices to what they say about us.
Unfriended
Friend Request movie review: Facebook, a horror story (again)
We’ve literally just seen this, in 2015’s Unfriended. Tedious wannabe scarefest misses the true horrors of Facebook and cultivates a personality-free blandness.
Where Are the Women? Unfriended
More than one girl in an ensemble plus a female villain are good things. But the most prominent of the girls is treated in a retrograde, gendered way. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Unfriended movie review: the call is coming from inside Facebook!
There’s little less compelling than a vague evil spirit with loosely defined powers doing random “scary” things as required by the script.
