The final sequence delivers a couple of terrifying scenes that stand out for their elegance and make Matt Vesely a director to watch... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 28, 2024

Just as 2001 pondered upon humanity's place within the cosmos, this film pursues a no less elusive problem: the place of truth in the age of digital media. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 10, 2024

The only actor on-screen for the entire 94-minute runtime, Sullivan impresses as a disgraced journalist looking for redemption via an eerie unexplained mystery in this psychological sci-fi film

| May 20, 2024

At its best Monolith is a tight, taut time showcasing a wonderful one-woman show from Sullivan, but could’ve done with a more crackling climax.

| May 15, 2024

It’s one of those films that will either be loved or leave the viewer completely nonplussed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2024

Sadly the mystery at its core proves to be a rather monotonous, unengaging one, which ultimately results in a bland film that never achieves the high levels of tension & suspense that it's aiming for.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 22, 2024

A few adjustments from a plausible pivot into an audio-only thriller. Perhaps that would have been the better play for a story best when gazing into the gap between the skills of listening and language and not when mimicking better recent sci-fi films.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 10, 2024

“Monolith” flourishes as a claustrophobic, tantalizing psychological thriller that examines the benefits of privilege, and the burden of unresolved guilt.

| Mar 27, 2024

“Monolith” has no problems, and it is shocking to witness such a self-assured economical film that feels luxurious, confident, and experienced on every level.

| Mar 24, 2024

Intelligent and deeply unsettling single-location sci-fi impresses with the most basic of elements. Makes the viewer deeply creeped out through little more than a single room and one woman with a microphone.

| Original Score: 4 | Mar 21, 2024

I admire that's it reaching for something. It doesn't quite get its arms around it, but A for effort.

| Mar 5, 2024

[L]inking to the outside world only through audio makes every development a surprise, keeping us on our toes, ready for anything. So the fact that everything visual happens so incredibly slowly is a major mindf*ck.

| Mar 3, 2024

The ending of Monolith might be frustratingly vague to some viewers, but this sci-fi horror movie is a suspenseful labyrinth featuring a captivating performance from Lily Sullivan as a podcaster trying to uncover the mystery behind ominous black bricks.

| Mar 2, 2024

An industrious indie that defies its genre conventions every step of the way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 28, 2024

Vesely uses the movie’s restrictive setting and its sparse cast to his advantage, capitalising on the constrained situation to deliver truly intense and streamlined storytelling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2024

The movie is a slight thriller, but combined with great acting and a fairly clever story, it works more often than it doesn't.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 23, 2024

Lily Sullivan is terrific. Plays like an extended episode of “The Twilight Zone” leaving much to your imagination until the third act delivers a jolt complete with shocking visuals.Disconcerting as it invades your psyche.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2024

Monolith is an extremely impressive moody lo-fi sci-fi chamber piece that is chilling as it is compelling.

| Feb 22, 2024

Monolith ultimately works better as a character study of a desperate woman than as a fully realized sci-fi thriller, but credit Vesely with getting further than you might expect from a minimalist approach.

| Feb 21, 2024

Monolith is a low-fi thriller that needles its way under the skin and will likely have viewers interrogating the dark secrets in their own lives.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2024