Lapsis offers the intriguing and hopeful possibility that our technologically dependent future may not be so bad after all.

| Feb 7, 2024

Certain moments don't quite work, but the ideas in play feel prescient, and the low-budget workarounds deserve a round of applause.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2021

You may not believe in the technology, but you will believe in Ray, a genuine person in a world of phoneys.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2021

Science-fiction is always at its best when it has something to say and the challenge laid down by Hutton is enough to give Jeff Bezos a sleepless night or two.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2021

This sensitive but flawed sci-fi comic dystopia walks the strange new frontier of the modern gig economy...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2021

A shrewd film that's direct about its targets at every turn. It's also savvily crafted, stems from clear anger and overflows with surprises.

| Jun 21, 2021

I was sucked in by it, but it does get super convoluted by the end.

| Original Score: 3 | Jun 9, 2021

It deserves praise for its unusual take on the sci-fi theme and the skilful way in which a social issue is combined with a futuristic thriller format. Imperial makes an unusual sort of hero.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 8, 2021

Clearly understands how emergent technology can be used as a tool of manipulation and control, and Lapsis effectively expresses the oppressive ennui of barely scraping by.

| Jun 6, 2021

A unique unraveling of the modern society's reliance on technology.

| Jun 4, 2021

Lapsis might not be the kind of science fiction a lot of audiences expect - though there are robots, and they are evil - but as a window on the world today it's got a lot of big budget blockbusters beat.

| Jun 3, 2021

What can make genre cinema great is that behind all the well-worn tropes and audience expectations is a bounty of ideas just waiting to be explored and subverted to their full potential; and Lapsis is a prime example of fantastic sci-fi cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 3, 2021

A hapless delivery man's cable-laying gig is a caustic ride to a corporate dark side.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2021

Lapsis is both strange and stimulating. A great combination!

| Original Score: A- | Jun 2, 2021

Lapsis is a powerful reminder that people are always first and foremost just people, and that basic dignity and human rights shouldn't be so easily stripped away in pursuit of dreamtech utopias.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 2, 2021

It is an undeniably bizarre movie and not always successful, but its boldness remains an intriguing proposition.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2021

With "Lapsis," [Writer and director Noah Hutton] shows that while a science fiction film might be light on the special effects and fuzzy on the science, it can still have something interesting to say.

| May 17, 2021

This fantasy is intimately linked to a painful reality, and leaves its mark.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 13, 2021

Noah Hutton's sci-fi satire takes on greedy corporations that prey on gig workers and does it with smarts while never shirking its primary obligation - to entertain.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 25, 2021

Feels more on-the-nose and trite than of-the-moment and insightful... the result of a script that doesn't quite know what to do with the originality of its premise.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 22, 2021