Spiderhead

Kosinski never manages full control of the film’s tone, which is essential in a story like this. Saunders’ story is draining but cathartic. "S...

All the ingredients are there for a daring satire — a George Sanders story, adapted by the "Deadpool" duo and directed by Joseph Kosinski ...

I won’t cry for Kosinski – Top Gun: Maverick proves that the director will be able to make whatever he wants going forward, no matter the love, or...

Kosinski can’t make the inane philosophizing about free will sound profound or new, and the hectic, hasty finale, lacking the nerve or chilly inter...

This is one of those movies that’s forgotten almost as soon as it ends, and it doesn’t even require any chemical intervention in order...

Even at 100 minutes minus end credits, the film’s stretch marks are undeniable.

While (Teller) and Hemsworth have a lot of screen presence together, there’s only so much you can do without a decent plot or script…

The movie’s made up its mind not to cut too deep on the intellectual, as Saunders’s writing often does, so instead it leans into the human element...

Though it starts with promise, Spiderhead is pseudo-heady sci-fi stuff that treats its most intriguing elements like an afterthought.

Having stretched out the story idea to feature-film length, the film doesn’t really give the sense that it knows where it is going.

Sadly, the performance—and movie—fall flat.

… Has some neat Covid-era themes but is ultimately all premise and no payoff.

Some of these choices work, some are silly and some come across as downright mean… Ultimately, Spiderhead just seems a little unsure of what i...

Spiderhead is a totally OK movie to sort of watch. And if that's all Netflix is aiming for now, they've gotten their gold star for m...

The sci-fi thriller watches more like a lesser episode of Black Mirror.

Soon… it becomes obvious that this film won’t have the courage of Saunders’ story.

[It] has idiocy in its veins.

A sci-fi thriller so dull-edged and obvious, it defies the sum of its parts.

By resolving its story around a mano-a-mano, the film narrows its understanding of a system in which exploitation is privatized.

Hemsworth hams it up with reckless abandon – every take used seems to be the "now do one just for fun" take – but the movie never finds i...

Feels derivative and only superficially invested in its big ideas about second chances and the conundrum of appropriating the bodies of individuals...

The two sides of the film end up mutually exclusive. An ill-judged experiment itself, the movie intrigues then implodes. And then it just dissolves...

Alas, Kosinski has followed the most spectacular movie of his career with the most generic, and it’s hard to be happy about that no matter what the...