Profile
Focus Features | Release Date: May 14, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
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10
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8
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
Profile is a pretty conventional thriller with pretty conventional stereotypes. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 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. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMay 15, 2021
If Profile has value, it’s not as a tale of terrorist recruitment or of amorous delusion, but of how power works in the extremely online world. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMay 12, 2021
Despite an intriguing premise, it ultimately falls apart as the gimmick wears thin and the plot veers into ludicrous territory, with the heroine making a series of increasingly rash and idiotic decisions. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerMay 11, 2021
No matter where he goes, even when he’s working in a subgenre he helped build, Bekmambetov loses himself in the pixels. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Simran HansAug 9, 2021
The ratcheting tension is sadly punctured by unintentionally hilarious scenes of ambitious “research” by journalist Amy (Valene Kane), mostly involving frantic Googling and YouTube tutorials on “how to look younger”. Read full review
40
Rolling StoneJessica KiangMay 13, 2021
Like any weird internet rabbit hole you might fall down when you know you should be reading a book or brewing kombucha or going to sleep, this thriller is almost annoyingly slick and moreish. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDavid Rooney
In terms of sustaining a narrative using only FaceTime, Skype, Facebook, video downloads and various other web pages and social media platforms, Profile is quite impressive up to a point. In terms of coherent plotting and plausibility, not so much. That means that as the storytelling falls apart, the online framework devolves into a labored tech gimmick, and a visually tiresome one at that. Read full review
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