Such is the message of “TikTok, Boom”: You can run, but you can’t hide from the algorithms.

| Oct 21, 2022

If you only have a vague concept of TikTok as that thing kids use to post videos of themselves dancing, this essential documentary will leave you better informed -- and possibly alarmed.

| Sep 29, 2022

A lively, handy TikTok primer. Yet there are ways in which it’s all too content to skitter along the surface of what TikTok is.

| Feb 5, 2022

One can't help feel this is geared more toward outsiders than those who are already caught up in [TikTok's] attention beam and feeding into its algorithms.

| Feb 1, 2022

You'll certainly come away from TikTok, Boom. with a lot of talking points, but you might not feel like you've actually gained a deeper understanding of the platform itself.

| Jan 28, 2022

The doc addresses widespread ideas and experiences around the app, mostly with a helpful journalistic remove that avoids either scolding or gushing. As a primer, it's effective and absorbing.

| Jan 28, 2022

"TikTok, Boom." may be chock-full of disquieting information, but it's rarely more than a list of bullet-points.

| Original Score: C | Jan 24, 2022

The film's wide view makes for a more complete portrait of TikTok than a more narrowly focused one might have offered, and possibly a more nuanced one.

| Jan 24, 2022

The story of TikTok is still being written, but it will certainly provide ample material for comedies, thrillers and sociopolitical analysis in the years to come, and this movie is an engrossing opening salvo.

| Jan 24, 2022