The centrality of the laptop screen in Unfriended has been identified by some critics as a new or experimental take on found footage horror, but this is not the first film to use this idea.

| Aug 27, 2018

As silly as the premise might sound, Unfriended is actually a surprisingly clever movie. It's far smarter and meaner than it looks.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 14, 2015

It's a premise that seems ridiculous until you start to realize it might actually be brilliant, or at least charmingly clever.

Full Review | Nov 10, 2015

This is the closest exploitation cinema has come to capturing the hive-like buzz of online life in all its invasive intimacy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 4, 2015

This is clever, even poignant stuff. Oldies as well as adolescents will find themselves intrigued.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 1, 2015

[The film-makers'] greatest achievement in this high-end exploitation is to retain a position on the moral high ground while bloody mayhem rages around their feet

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2015

In the cinema, the static setup, fuzzy, pixellating Skype faces, and the parps of incoming messages all become profoundly irritating.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2015

Unfriended is genuinely innovative and experimental.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2015

Being up to date is not the same thing as being on the ball, and Unfriended could afford to be cleverer.

| Apr 30, 2015

Credibly using actual programs rather than made-up ones, Unfriended makes hay with such cultural ephemera as the "memorialise" function for a Facebook account, which enables the pages of deceased friends to have an afterlife.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2015

Unfriended is from a new generation: film-makers who now have the web in their bloodstream, for whom online interaction is a natural part of life. They've used a new language to create a smart, ingenious, subversive and scary movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 30, 2015

A series of disappointingly tame confrontations involving a lot of video interference and shrieking.

| Apr 27, 2015

You feel some mild critique of lives lived through web applications. What you don't feel is sustained visceral fright.

| Apr 24, 2015

It's a very American-teen spook show, with the tired tropes of the unseen-slasher film firmly in place.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 23, 2015

You might find yourself rooting for the murderer.

| Apr 23, 2015

If you can give yourself over to the idea of Unfriended,you'll find it's surprisingly engrossing and really quite clever.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 22, 2015

Even with an 82-minute running time, cracks start to show. One of the key problems with the script is that every single character is so utterly obnoxious and morally bankrupt that you start to relish their increasingly nasty deaths.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 21, 2015

Perhaps director Gabriadze and writer Nelson Greaves intended to create a Social Media "Scream" and a commentary on cyber-bullying, but "Unfriended" comes across as disdainful of millennials.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.0 | Apr 18, 2015

Even though Unfriended begins to cheat, springing loud noises and gory cutaways that can't be explained, there's a rigor to its dopey, blood-simple conception that you might smile at.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2015

Translates horror conventions fluidly so that you hold your breath not when you're waiting for what's behind the door but for what's buffering.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2015