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Reality

Reality

2023

Tina Satter

Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis, Benny Elledge, John Way

6.2

3,620

Drama. Thriller A former American intelligence specialist was given the longest sentence for the unauthorized release of government information to the media about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections via an email operation. Saturday afternoon, June 3, 2017. Twenty-five year old Reality Winner is confronted at her home by the FBI. A cryptic conversation begins and soon Reality's life starts to unravel. With all dialogue taken ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Sydney Sweeney is devastating as Reality Winner in taut thriller shaped from FBI transcript"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"Reality can be stranger than fiction, but 'Reality' fuses the two to become stranger, and more riveting, still."	POS
United States	Steph Green IndieWire	Tina Satter's film is inventively mounted and extraordinarily tense, but it proves something we already knew: Sydney Sweeney is the real deal.	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Tina Satter traps us in this small space with Winner, exploring the gender dynamics at play (...) a fascinating sociological exercise"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"The film leaves the trace it intends, but moment by moment, it’s particularly strong as a showcase for Sweeney (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Lou Thomas NME	"Sweeney is excellent (...) Smart, tight drama (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"This haunting film based on verbatim transcripts (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Charles Bramesco The Playlist	"With this mettle-testing high point to her C.V., she demonstrates why she deserves all that’s come to her thus far — and all that undoubtedly will"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Uncannily brilliant (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Hughes Time Out	"Sydney Sweeney excels in a whistleblower thriller that will leave your palms sweaty (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"A brutal film (...) [It] doesn't need to push. 'Reality' wears its relevance on its fluorescent-lit short sleeves (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Brianna Zigler Paste Magazine	"There’s a reason that Satter knew Winner’s transcript would succeed as a play, but she brings very little that’s new and exciting as a film director of that same narrative"	NEG
United States	Jordan Hoffman TV Guide	"This film is a terrific showcase for the 25-year-old Sydney Sweeney"	POS
Canada	Graeme Guttmann Screen Rant	"A chilling [and] clinical look at the surveillance state [and] a fraught time for the US, with a transformative performance from Sweeney (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Marco Vito Oddo Collider	"Sydney Sweeney gives her best performance yet in masterful and tense true story"	POS
United States	Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"A film that's essentially three people having a long conversation in a bare, dirty room, and I was on the edge of my seat nearly the entire time"	POS
United States	Pat Brown Slant	"Sydney Sweeney thrills (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"Played with captivating, heartbreaking resilience by Sydney Sweeney"	POS
United Kingdom	Iana Murray Empire	"A beautifully understated performance from Sydney Sweeney, paired with stylistically minimalist filmmaking, make for a chilling, compelling chamber piece (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"Sweeney has finally got her serious-actor moment and delivered. May a thousand flowers bloom from this for her"	POS
United States	John Serba Decider	"This stripped-down, nearly real-time, almost single-location drama erupts with implications –political, personal, procedural"	POS

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