Reality

Sweeney's complex tricky performance – mixed with the emotional stakes – makes this intriguing drama completely absorbing.

It’s a troubling, unsettling and beautifully made production, all the more notable for being a debut feature that rigidly adheres to the actual recording that the FBI men made on the day that a brave young woman lost her freedom.

Reality is a bizarre blend of the gripping and the banal -- a film in which politeness is used as a weapon and guile is disguised as embarrassment.

Reality is undeniably compelling cinema, and it raises some implicit questions about what qualities we do and don’t value in public servants.

It's a fascinating movie in many respects, even if it doesn't quite work.

A stranger-than-fiction reminder of the precarious times in which we live, and of what happens when individuals challenge authorities less troubled by truth than retribution.

Working within the confines of what was actually said and done, Satter still manages to create emotional aptitude in what could have been a rather stale true crime story. This is undoubtedly one of the more underrated films of 2023.

Sydney Sweeney shines as real life whistleblower Reality Winner in Reality, Tina Satter’s taut chamber piece adaptation of her award-winning play.

It’s hard for most of us to get inside the heads of people like this, but Reality, and particularly Sweeney’s performance, illuminates this mind-set.

Reality makes for a compelling, quiet-spoken thriller, but its rigid adherence to factuality also leaves it a little boxed in, cutting it off from any greater truth about Winner’s story.