Aneesh Chaganty is no stranger to unconventional storytelling. Before he got his dream job making commercials for Google and before his first feature film took home the top audience award at Sundance, ...

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The central gimmick of the film is that it unfolds entirely on screens, including laptops, phones, and security cameras. What ...

The conceit of Searching—a film told entirely from a computer screen—may seem high-concept, but the actual story within is a fairly old-fashioned whodunnit. It’s this intermingling of a traditional ...

“Searching,” a pleasantly gimmicky movie, gets its power from something that isn’t a gimmick at all: an actor’s ability to simply and movingly tell a story. John Cho plays David Kim, a widowed dad who ...

Genre films are always searching for ways to distinguish themselves within subgenres. For instance, a war film can also be a found-footage film (1989’s “84 Charlie MoPic”). A movie that unwinds in a ...

The idea of watching a movie told entirely through computer screens sounds like a gimmick. Unfriended gave us a taste of that. It was a horror movie told through Skype video chats in what producer ...

The surest sign of a good thriller is to see how well it works within the confines of the genre – whether or not it is able to offer a fresh take on familiar themes, and how well it is able to conceal ...