Reality

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.

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.

Through that cold, synthetic, and strange interrogation, Satter creates formidable tension. [Full review in Spanish]

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.

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?

Cleverly directed and featuring a star-making performance from Sydney Sweeney, this is one of the best films of 2022.