It’s a culture clash business comic-drama where the geeks and the suits go on a rollercoaster ride, a story stripped of outside life but rife with telling touches.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2024

Investing heartily in its story's personalities, and eschewing myth-making reverence or preciousness, BlackBerry's makers entertainingly frame their film as a workplace dramedy about industry gate-crashers rudely ejected from a party of their own staging.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 15, 2023

Rise-and-fall stories so often gloat after the bursting of the bubble, but this one is all condolences.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2023

Johnson is also ruthless in his depiction of the business reality behind the glossy surface waffle of the tech dream.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2023

Yet despite the guffaws, the film (directed by Matt Johnson) is deeper than a mere morality play about villainous money men.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2023

It’s a film, ultimately, about failure. And immediately that makes it a far more intriguing proposition than all the boardroom backslapping of a movie such as Air.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2023

This is a watchable enough film...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2023

A corporate comedy of errors — but the film really shines thanks to Howerton, whose towering, shark-like performance makes him a villain for the ages.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2023

The characters are thinly sketched stereotypes (with the exception of Howerton, who it is hard not to like in any role). This is the kind of movie you would watch on a plane without complaint, then utterly forget.

| Sep 29, 2023

Even more than The Social Network, where Aaron Sorkin’s script treats Mark Zuckerberg and co like flawed deities, this blackly comic corporate drama finds something intrinsically ridiculous about these egotistical men.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2023

All the pressures and compromises of corporate life are on show, magnified by the speed at which the tech industry moves.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2023

A bleakly comic requiem for an almost forgotten one-time technological breakthrough, BlackBerry is heck of a ride.

| Aug 15, 2023

The MVP: Glenn Howerton as BlackBerry’s unscrupulous co-CEO, Jim Balsillie, who never met an underling he didn’t want to snap in half.

| Jul 21, 2023

Howerton plays Balsillie like an actual shark – perpetually on the hunt, dead-eyed and dispassionate.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 19, 2023

This is one of those whip-smart, character- and story-driven gems that grabs you from the start and never lets go.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 18, 2023

Howerton brings something to BlackBerry, the scrappy Canadian indie about a scrappy Canadian company that changed the world, that goes above and beyond his usual lovable sociopath act. It’s not range. It’s rage.

| May 15, 2023

What emerges from the electronic noise and fussy aesthetic of “BlackBerry” is a compelling portrait of a company that flew too close to the sun.

| May 15, 2023

The most important aspect of BlackBerry is the fact that this is not a hero’s journey for anyone involved; this is a story about what it means to be smart in some ways and dumb in others.

| Original Score: B+ | May 13, 2023

Johnson applies a screwball procedural framework to a true story of tech-world boom and bust, building his movie on a clash of values and personalities.

| May 13, 2023

“BlackBerry” plays like a prototype still waiting to be realized, a sketch that’s still undeveloped.

| May 12, 2023