The tension is built really well but as it’s coming to a crescendo, the movie just ends, which prevents Profile from achieving the instant modern classic moniker it so nearly has in its grasp.

| Mar 5, 2025

A Scary must see thriller

| Jul 26, 2023

The biggest key to the film's success is that creeping around the edges of the exploitation thriller is a sly comment on our increasingly digital lives... It's a devious move, one that feels just right for a film this diabolically slick and well-crafted.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 10, 2022

An intense film that gets more and more frustrating as it goes on, but you just can't look away.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 10, 2021

The ratcheting tension is sadly punctured by unintentionally hilarious scenes...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2021

Despite the pseudo-realistic framing, the story's frantic absurdity is the nearest thing it has to entertainment value.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 5, 2021

With Bekmambetov finally involved in a fully hands-on capacity, the unofficial series' creators at last craft a story that's a near perfect fit for the format.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 18, 2021

If you take anything away from this movie, it's that Latif is a talent to keep an eye on---and that social media isn't a wise place to trick/trap a terrorist.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 12, 2021

An exploration of social networking truth and fantasy as a cat and mouse game with lethal stakes.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 8, 2021

Profile is a fairly tasteless movie, though in a sort of totally earnest way that will probably garner it admirers in proportion to the haters.

| Jun 6, 2021

Profile uses the trappings of a ripped-from-the-headlines story and elevates it into an effective little thriller steeped in modern social media and a catfishing pas de deux.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 3, 2021

Chillingly terrifying, Amy's gradual induction into the terrorist organization she's trying to infiltrate is absolutely unforgettable.

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

Profile is an effective study in tech-age radicalization, a problem that doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. That's the most terrifying aspect of the movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 28, 2021

... perhaps a protagonist with a different background/occupation whose gullibility was more plausible may have better served the narrative.

| May 28, 2021

Though admittedly engrossing, Profile would have benefitted from being released as scheduled in 2018.

| Original Score: C- | May 26, 2021

As Bekmambetov tells his story, this is a terrifying ordeal that I had to keep reminding myself wasn't a documentary, since it often feels like one.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 25, 2021

Profile hooks you with its fast-paced narrative that doesn't leave you any time to think but even at its fast pace, you still feel like there's a lot of stupid stuff going down...

| May 24, 2021

It's an interesting enough idea, but Bekmambetov overtaxes the movie's digital artifice and missteps when it comes to sustaining plausibility...

| May 22, 2021

A film with a compelling story that is undermined by the computer-screen gimmick.

| Original Score: C | May 21, 2021

For a thriller, Profile only really achieves one thing: being as grating as possible

| May 21, 2021