For a movie full of surprises in its narrative, there are none beneath its surface.

| Mar 4, 2021

What The Signal lacks in character development and standard plot mechanics, it more than makes up for in mood, tone, and atmosphere.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 7, 2020

Here is something new and original on the screen with fresh faces that didn't cost the GDP of a small country to make.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2020

With incredible ingenuity, this lo-fi concept is showcased within an amazing visual design, and the fantastic look of the film blends perfectly with a creepy and unnerving set-up.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 30, 2019

The Signal isn't quirky, it's downright weird. Combining elements of Cronenbergian body horror, District 9's believable-ish setting and the feel of Chronicle, writer/director William Eubank leveraged a small budget to great effect (and effects).

| Original Score: A+ | Aug 6, 2019

The Signal is engaging, but ultimately resorts to cliché and a rug-pulling ending that will delight or infuriate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2019

There are some truly memorable images... But a leaden narrative labyrinth leads its screenplay down one too many dead end paths.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2019

The Signal feels like your standard side-of-the-highway fare. It's just not worth the mozzarella sticks.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 24, 2017

The Signal is clever in its execution of recycled concepts.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 21, 2016

Up-and-coming British actress Olivia Cooke and Aussie heart-throb Brenton Thwaites look more confused than the audience in this sci-fi drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2015

Part horror, part sci-fi but totally engrossing, William Eubank's The Signal is a small scale production that thrives on some very big ideas.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2015

Adequately creepy, flashy, and/or exciting when the story calls for it, but considerably more interesting for its quieter, craftier moments.

| Aug 24, 2015

It's a movie of ideas rather than spectacle (Philip K Dick's dreamy electric sheep are inevitably invoked) with some well realised visual effects (a la Ex Machina) giving it genre legs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2015

While following familiar sci-fi codes, what makes The Signal unique is the way it's transmitted. Because just when you think you've found its wavelength, it switches to another.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2015

Although this ingenious sci-fi horror hybrid never quite delivers a story as dazzling as its visuals, its ambitions set it apart in an age of carbon-copy superhero movies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 26, 2015

Sadly, this flubs the landing with a banal and credulity-stretching finale that feels like a bad Twilight Zone episode, but the first hour or so is terrific.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 26, 2015

Pity the poor actors trapped in a cinematographer's world.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 26, 2015

William Eubank continues to work his particular mind-stretching mix of acute character interplay and cosmic conceptual breakthrough.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2015

The more original and clever Eubank is aiming to be, with an ambitious conceit folding in biological experimentation, Area 51-style paranoia and X-Men superpowers, the hokier and more derivative he seems.

| Mar 26, 2015

Though it begins as an impressionistic road movie, segues into paranoid sci-fi, then morphs into something completely unhinged, The Signal has been made with much great care.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2015