The Beta Test

"A brutally unflattering satire which wields its humour of discomfort like a scalpel."

"Acerbic and uncomfortable to a brilliant degree."

"(It's) almost too ambitious, tucking a surfeit of ideas into its heightened surrealist mindscape. Yet the movie, at its best, holds you in its grip."

"The good bits are sufficiently impressive it wouldn’t be fair to hold its flaws against it too much."

"Whilst occasionally breathless to the point of exhausting, there's nothing second-rate about The Beta Test."

"One of the more unusual and exciting independent films of the season."

"A livewire thriller-slash-parable, dashed with audacious elements of farce."

"(An) endearingly overstuffed indie."

"A scathing satire of both social media and the film industry."

"Shines as an example of creative allyship."

"(Cummings and McCabe) are more adept at maintaining tone than a lot of better-known filmmakers."

"A really great Hollywood satire."

"Lacking in clarity of vision or a cohesive world."