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Imagine your Windows desktop screen, but even less upsetting, off-putting, and terrifying.
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Profile
Told entirely through computer screens, this mystery thriller follows a British journalist who poses online as a Muslim convert in order to learn how ISIS lures and recruits women. She will soon learn the process first hand...
2021106 minsCyprus, Russia, UK, USABazelevs Production, Bazelevs Entertainment, Focus Features
MysteryThriller
- Director:
- Timur Bekmambetov ('Night Watch', 'Wanted', 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter')
- Writer:
- Timur BekmambetovOlga KharinaBritt Poulton
- Cast:
- Valene KaneShazad LatifChristine AdamsAmir RahimzadehMorgan Watkins
Profile | Reviews
BirthMoviesDeath
The dichotomy between [the characters], as much as the bigger picture of the rabbit hole Amy goes spiraling down, is what gives Profile its suspenseful power.
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Collider
Screenlife format isn't just a gimmick, it's an effective and unconventional cinematic method...
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Variety
Any factual grounding gives way beneath the film as it devolves into shrill heart-versus-head melodrama.
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IndieWire
The answers to these mysteries are mighty predictable, but Profile nevertheless sells us on how seductive these interactions can be.
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The Times
The performances are unremarkable, the direction minimal, while the clumsy appropriation of a real world Isis threat for cheap cinematic thrills seems, at best, questionable.
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Profile is available to stream in New Zealand now on Apple TV and Neon Rentals and Academy On Demand and AroVision.