The movie pushes the Windows idiom of modern cinema about as far as it will go, its narrative cleverness offset by the visual tedium of following a mouse arrow around for an hour and a half.

| Mar 4, 2020

Dark Web: Unfriended needs less reliance on lewd jokes and more on its screenwriting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 26, 2018

Figuratively speaking, Unfriended 2 puts a sheet over its head and says "whooo; the internet is scary". It is seldom as scary as a sheet.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2018

The novelty of the "desktop aesthetic" is wearing decidedly thin. Better writing. Better acting. Better direction. Please.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 10, 2018

The truth is more interesting - and terrifying - than this fiction.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 10, 2018

It's impressive how many layered twists Dark Web inflicts after its simple start...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2018

[Unfriended: Dark Web] is voyeuristic, nasty but very clever fare.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2018

Despite characters whose individual plights would be just as boring to describe as they are to watch, Dark Web is just weird and ingenious enough to recommend.

| Aug 7, 2018

It adds up to little, despite a fine Hitchcockian twist of a single transgression leading inevitably to doom.

| Jul 30, 2018

I'm impressed with the amount of ingenuity it takes to tell a story from this POV, but I think the first one was considerably better.

| Original Score: C | Jul 27, 2018

Dark Web skates by on saturated nastiness, one terrific kill, and the audience's engagement in seeing if the filmmakers can pull off the stunt. Barely, but it's fun to watch them try.

| Jul 24, 2018

No fun because it's just too real... a clever concept of cinematic design and storytelling, it proves to only be a deeply chilling cautionary tale.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 21, 2018

The terror here is largely conceptual, more in line with the paranoid, every-breath-you-take thrillers of the early 1970s than the grim, creeping catharsis of J-horror.

| Jul 20, 2018

Nasty in its narrative and nifty in its aesthetic, Stephen Susco's new film is a solid argument against doing anything remotely illicit online.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2018

Susco makes even the dulcet tones of a Skype alert sound menacing. Beyond that, it has no message to offer other than don't mess with the dark web.

| Original Score: C | Jul 20, 2018

Whereas the first film was a surprisingly effective formal exercise, Dark Web marries that form to an extremely real feeling of hopelessness that characterizes a not-small amount of our time spent online.

| Jul 20, 2018

Each new plot development is so slapdash and uninspired that it's impossible to suspend one's disbelief.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 20, 2018

How can you not get a chill of wicked pleasure from a movie that builds dread from the Facebook message notifications that drop down from the upper righthand corner of the screen?

| Original Score: B | Jul 19, 2018

An initially clever exercise winds up feeling like the wrong kind of hackwork.

| Jul 19, 2018

As the movie's scope gradually widens, the horrible conspiracy at its center grows so vast that it swallows all the characters up, and leaves discerning viewers as entertained and skeptical as they are shaken.

| Jul 19, 2018