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Profile

2018

Timur Bekmambetov

Valene Kane, Shazad Latif, Christine Adams, Amir Rahimzadeh ...

6.5

183

Thriller British journalist goes undercover and infiltrates the digital propaganda channels of the called Islamic State, which has been mobilizing ever greater numbers of woman from Europe. Her daily internet contacts with an ISIS recruiter gradually pull her in and push the limits of her investigation.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Silly but absorbing (...) If the technical environment of 'Profile' is authentically rendered (...) its grasp on journalistic practice is markedly less convincing"	NEU
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"In terms of sustaining a narrative using only FaceTime, Skype, Facebook... (...) 'Profile' is quite impressive up to a point. In terms of coherent plotting and plausibility, not so much."	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Abu is a shifty and compelling figure (...) Bekmambetov might be able to physically meld with audiences in a way that the worst of his previous work (...) has always wished that it could."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Silly but effective (...) The conversations between Amy and Bilel are capably performed (...) 'Profile' is a pretty conventional thriller with pretty conventional stereotypes (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Haleigh Foutch Collider	"'Profile's biggest trouble is getting around the fact that Amy is so sloppy and haphazard with her journalistic technique (...) Bekmambetov makes good work of twisting your stomach into knots"	NEU
United States	Rob Hunter Film School Rejects	"'Profile' is technically proficient and takes great advantage of its desktop setting to the point that it feels real in its form (...) Its effect as a movie is far less successful."	NEU

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