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

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

You spend a lot of the movie confused, but the great big reveals of its finale don't feel very shocking at all.

| Jun 13, 2014

Eubank could have a terrific future as a director. As a screenwriter, though, maybe not so much.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 13, 2014

There's bravura manipulativeness to The Signal, the stylish, slyly funny question mark of a movie from director and co-writer William Eubank.

| Jun 13, 2014

Eubank's talent is not at all in doubt, and science-fiction mavens who embrace this picture will rightly be excited for whatever he turns to next.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2014

You wouldn't be surprised to see Mr. Eubank directing a bigger-budget movie down the road, but this film demonstrates some blanks in his approach that still need to be filled in.

| Jun 13, 2014

Let The Signal take you by surprise. And it will.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2014

After a half an hour, the developments grow busy rather than mysterious, the focus blurs and the kicker ending - well, I was neither surprised nor satisfied.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 12, 2014

It's fun while it lasts, though it feels less like a completed movie than a demonstration of director William Eubank's spooky ability to shift gears and string genres together.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 12, 2014

Signal thinks big, takes chances and has enough arresting scenes to stand apart from the science fiction films of late.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 12, 2014

A less than wholly satisfying destination, despite some fun detours.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 12, 2014

It was made with great ingenuity and technical expertise on an exceedingly small budget. What's missing, however, is density, complexity and surprise.

| Jun 12, 2014

Director William Eubank seems more concerned with building to an epic, superpowered ending rather than anything making a lick of sense. In the spirit of the characters and audience, though, it feels right.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2014

This sci-fi puzzler by cinematographer-turned-director William Eubank often recalls the work of Shane Carruth (Primer, Upstream Color) in its low-budget resourcefulness and creeping, gnawing paranoia.

| Jun 12, 2014

There is no doubting Eubank's talent at bringing a story, one he co-wrote, to the screen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2014

Amid all the self-conscious virtuosity, certain things are right.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2014