American Sweatshop
Brainstorm Media | Release Date: August 29, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Original-CinLiz BraunSep 19, 2025
American Sweatshop is an anxiety-soaked story, but it’s not a thriller — it’s smarter than that. Director Uta Briesewitz has created a character study set in a kind of cautionary tale. Lili Reinhart’s understated performance is what keeps the story intriguing. American Sweatshop falters in its third act, but Reinhart will keep you watching regardless. Read full review
70
ColliderNate RichardMar 17, 2025
After proving herself as a director on TV shows like Stranger Things and Severance, Briesewitz has delivered a promising directorial debut, with fascinating characters and takes us on a journey to a world that we don't often see in American films. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 29, 2025
The problem is that Uta Briesewitz’s “American Sweatshop” doesn’t quite have the courage to really follow through on its ambitious and timely concept. Read full review
58
IndieWireKatie RifeSep 3, 2025
If this sounds like American Sweatshop is trying to have it both ways, that’s because it is. It wants to titillate, and to judge. To show, and to tell. To enrage, and to pacify. Combined with the by-the-numbers direction and unremarkable cinematography, the overall effect is of an after-school special about how social media is bad for you — which it probably is, to be fair. Read full review
50
Screen RantGregory NussenSep 21, 2025
What the film does exceedingly well is make us see the inherent irony of moderating online violence to the exclusion of the real-life violence in front of our faces. Read full review
50
The PlaylistChase HutchinsonSep 3, 2025
Even as Reinhart does solid work with the shaky material, her character remains adrift in a meandering psychological thriller that offers only a superficial look into her psyche. Read full review
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