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

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

Matt Vesely’s impressive debut ably stakes out its own territory, not least in the vast distances covered by a single on-screen actor and a handful of vocal performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 2024

In the end, the goal was clearly to trap us in the increasingly fractured mind of a single person who increasingly believes what is beyond believable. Mission accomplished.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 16, 2024

“Monolith” becomes harder to take seriously as the drama escalates, especially when Sullivan, finding herself in danger, charges on with an impassioned plea: “I have to continue this podcast!”

| Feb 15, 2024

Making the most of the palatial but spookily claustrophobic setting ... Vesely and Campbell take us on a spine-chilling ride that, even if it winds up in fairly familiar territory, is never less than gripping thanks to a bravura performance by Sullivan.

| Aug 12, 2023

Monolith seduces the audience to walk what seems to be the harder path of unsettling unease - a path that soon becomes a slippery slope into heartstopping fear.

| Mar 27, 2023

Falls sway to the clickbait tropes it intends to send up: red herrings, a tone of suffocating gloom and a desperation to keep the audience on the hook.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 17, 2023