Unfriended Reviews
An effective and ambitious interpretation of what it means to grow up with and live on the internet.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2024
Meant as an attack on cyberbullying, this body count movie loses any hope of a meaningful social commentary just around the time a possessed blender frappés a teen.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 21, 2022
Puts very real seeming (although slightly hysterical) teens in an unreal situation. As the stakes rise so do the emotions, so parents, be warned that you may be as horrified by the language as you are by the thrills and chills.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2021
A simple yet intelligent twist on a rather tired genre.
| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020
Like so many movies with a good hook that start off promising, it can't sustain that momentum, and Unfriended winds up an interesting experiment.
| Original Score: C | Jul 6, 2020
It was like a YouTube tutorial video that just takes like a sharp right turn into murderville.
| Apr 28, 2020
I don't even know if this counts as a movie.
| Apr 28, 2020
My favorite horror movies double as morality plays, and Unfriended ranks as one of the most relevant.
| Apr 9, 2020
Unfriended rises and falls not only the cutting edge technology and cinematic styling, but on the cast...Time to friend, Unfriended.
| Dec 8, 2019
Unfriended will earn chatter and consideration from the millennials featured in their stereotypes, but for most others will stumble and fall short.
| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Nov 13, 2019
Unfriended is a pure distillation of exploitation cinema.
| Sep 18, 2019
It's not going to go down as a horror classic, but it should be appreciated for what it is: a stupidly fun movie.
| Aug 8, 2019
A creatively bankrupt product of the Internet generation that lacks any real sense of purpose or innovation, leaving the audience wishing we could just hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE and put us out of our misery.
| Original Score: .5/4 | Jul 5, 2019
Kudos to director Leo Gabriadze, working from a tight script by Nelson Greaves, for creating suitable tension and sustaining it throughout the film's running time.
| Feb 22, 2019
Despite the interesting premise, the problems in this film are too infantile to truly scare audiences. [Full Review in Spanish]
| Feb 15, 2019
En vez de aceptar su estúpida naturaleza, Eliminar amigo prefiere huir de ella.
| Original Score: 5/ 10 | Feb 3, 2019
It's clear that the cast and crew had fun with "Unfriended," and that fun carries over to the audience. It's unlike anything you've seen before, but will likely be the new blueprint for the genre.
| Original Score: B | Jan 23, 2019
While it's hardly a nonstop bloodbath, there are jolts of gory violence that provide worthy horror punch, and the dialogue is naturalistic in its use of hard slang.
| Original Score: B | Dec 19, 2018
It worked as a way to teach teens to be more compassionate when it comes to cyber bullying, and it effectively demonstrated that whatever you put on the internet is there forever.
| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Nov 3, 2018
The metatextual implications of the film serve to make the whole experience deeply unsettling in a way that ghostly jump scares never could.
| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 31, 2018