Every one of the eight reviews is favourable, and the praise lands in the same place: this is a screenlife heist thriller that handles its format with more care than most. Critics single out the realistic hacking, the interface-driven plotting and a young cast whose chemistry comes through even though they are only ever seen in browser windows and phone screens. Several call it one of the better films the format has produced, and the fast pace is generally counted a virtue.
The reservations are about that same pace. The trade reviews from the festival premiere are the warmest, with Deadline calling it the best screenlife film yet; the later notices settle around a more temperate line, with The Hollywood Reporter reporting screen fatigue and The Guardian finding it turns mechanical once the early excitement fades. Slant adds that the film avoids the harder questions about digital dependency it raises. Nobody dislikes it; the disagreement is only over how much the gimmick costs.
