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Summary While trying to salvage her career, a disgraced journalist begins investigating a strange conspiracy theory. But as the trail leads uncomfortably close to home, she is left to grapple with the lies at the heart of her own story.
Directed By: Matt Vesely
Written By: Lucy Campbell
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- Well Go USA Entertainment
- 1 h 34 m
- 2024
- R
- Well Go USA Entertainment
- 1 h 34 m
Monolith
61
5.7
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Summary While trying to salvage her career, a disgraced journalist begins investigating a strange conspiracy theory. But as the trail leads uncomfortably close to home, she is left to grapple with the lies at the heart of her own story.
Directed By: Matt Vesely
Written By: Lucy Campbell
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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40% Positive
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60% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
61
40% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
60% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Matt Vesely’s impressive debut ably stakes out its own territory, not least in the vast distances covered by a single on-screen actor and a handful of vocal performances.
Some of our heroine’s choices as the film raises the stakes feel a bit unbelievable, but that can be forgiven given the single-setting, single-performer restrictions of the piece. In the end, the goal was clearly to trap us in the increasingly fractured mind of a single person who increasingly believes what is beyond believable. Mission accomplished.
Lily Sullivan plays this unnamed reporter with cagey, harried intensity, and she is more than capable of carrying this one-woman show.
The film, a debut feature from director Matt Vesely and screenwriter Lucy Campbell, falls sway to the clickbait tropes it intends to send up: red herrings, a tone of suffocating gloom and a desperation to keep the audience on the hook.
One can appreciate all that is accomplished with the bare minimum of visual variety and external clues, threats or assistance and still find this thiller wanting. At the end of the day, you’ve got to deliver some payoff worthy of the paranoia and suspense everybody is talking themselves into.
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Based on 6 User Ratings
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Based on 6 User Ratings
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Production Company
Black Cat White Rabbit Productions,
The South Australian Film Corporation,
Adelaide Film Festival
Release Date Feb 16, 2024
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating R
Tagline All you have to do is listen.
Website
https://www.mattvesely.com/video
Awards
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Screen Music Awards, Australia
• 1 Nomination
Australian Directors Guild Awards
• 1 Nomination
