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  • 2021
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  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary An undercover British journalist attempts to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself.

Directed By: Timur Bekmambetov

Written By: Britt Poulton, Olga Kharina, Anna Érelle, Timur Bekmambetov

  • 2021
  • R
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 46 m

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Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
54
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary An undercover British journalist attempts to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself.

Directed By: Timur Bekmambetov

Written By: Britt Poulton, Olga Kharina, Anna Érelle, Timur Bekmambetov

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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45% Positive
10 Reviews
36% Mixed
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18% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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45% Positive
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36% Mixed
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18% Negative
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100
The relationship between “Melody” and “Bilel” (also an assumed name) shows the slippery nature of performed online identities, the leveraging of personal grievances into political/terrorist action, and how the immense scale of social media can essentially collectivize and weaponize alienation and anger from around the world into real world terror.
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The story is told entirely on a computer screen, through skype, social media and editing programs. And despite the restrictions of this device, the film crackles with tension.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW

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Even at its most absurd, the movie is chilled by an ominous and ever-present feeling that the world has become smaller than we ever thought possible, and that real nightmares are waiting for us on the other side of every window.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
50
May 23, 2021
The energy in Timur Bekmambetov’s latest thriller — he did “Night Watch,””Wanted,” the “Ben Hur” remake, and produced the similar online thriller “Unfriended” — dissapates almost by default after that heady first act.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
May 11, 2021
No matter where he goes, even when he’s working in a subgenre he helped build, Bekmambetov loses himself in the pixels.
By Jesse Hassenger FULL REVIEW
38
May 11, 2021
Timur Bekmambetov’s Screenlife film is more fluff piece than hard-hitting news story.
By Mark Hanson FULL REVIEW
25
May 14, 2021
In Profile, the images mix real documentary footage with fictional social media and news organization posts. And meaning is elemental—a simplistic rush meant to induce viewer panic. While also being incredibly on-the-nose.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Bazelevs Entertainment, TABBAK
Release Date May 14, 2021
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating R
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Website https://www.focusfeatures.com/profile
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Awards

SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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