Reality

critic Reviews

, 93% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • Reality's narrow scope and gripping fact-based story add up to a riveting showcase for Sydney Sweeney in the title role.
  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    David StrattonThe Australian
    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.
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    Sandra HallSydney Morning Herald
    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.
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    David KlionThe New Republic
    Reality is undeniably compelling cinema, and it raises some implicit questions about what qualities we do and don’t value in public servants.
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    Robert LevinNewsday
    It's a fascinating movie in many respects, even if it doesn't quite work.
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    Mark KermodeObserver (UK)
    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.
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    Dmitry SamarovChicago Reader
    By presenting testimony without editorializing, the film becomes a searing indictment of a country that routinely punishes low-level true believers while rewarding traitors and opportunists up the food chain for their treachery.
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    Javier OcañaEl Pais (Spain)
    Through that cold, synthetic, and strange interrogation, Satter creates formidable tension. [Full review in Spanish]
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    Nadine WhitneyThe Curb
    Reality is a striking work that cannot be dismissed in the contemporary era of politics and “post-truth narratives.” Sydney Sweeney’s performance alone is worth the audience’s time, and how the film is constructed and what it says is daring and dynamic.
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    Grant WatsonFiction Machine
    Sweeney performs like a proverbial onion, peeling back layers of uncertainty and ambiguity throughout. Has she done something wrong? Does she know it if she did?
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    Matthew TurnerVODzilla.co
    Cleverly directed and featuring a star-making performance from Sydney Sweeney, this is one of the best films of 2022.
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