Relay

Name: Relay
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: August 22, 2025
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 70

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Bleecker Street Media | Release Date: August 22, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: A broker of lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten them breaks his own rules when a new client seeks his protection to stay alive.

Genre(s): Action, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 112 min

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The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Aug 19, 2025

Like the best of its genre, it affords tantalizing entrée into a universe lurking just below society’s surface to which few are privy, and stages engrossing cloak-and-dagger games between players who know the rules and, more dangerously, how to break them. Read full review

Screen Rant Mae Abdulbaki

Aug 24, 2025

It’s got everything — tense chase sequences, anxious and wary phone calls, and heart-to-hearts between Sarah and Ash that underscore their characters’ need for true connection. There have been so few exceptional thrillers in recent years, but Relay is certainly one of them. Read full review

Christina Newland

Oct 31, 2025

Relay is an old-school thriller with a drum-tight script and real style. Read full review

Robert Daniels

Sep 13, 2024

Mackenzie’s film works best when it believes in its audience. And it feels tantalisingly close to greatness when it allows the relationship between Ash and Sarah to simmer. The pacing is so unhurried, and the script has such deliberate mechanics that the film remains enthralling, despite an overbearing score. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Aug 21, 2025

Relay, a slick, sneaky thriller that’s elevated by both the actor and the director, David Mackenzie, makes it clear that Ahmed also has a silent-era performer’s gift for feverish stillness. Read full review

Empire Harry Stainer

Oct 28, 2025

With Ahmed and James’ connection holding it together, this is a tight, tense throwback to the paranoid thrillers of yesteryear that just about sticks the landing. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

Aug 21, 2025

This one’s not going into the conspiracy thriller pantheon, but for the duration of its tense, terse 112 minutes, it scratches the itch. Read full review

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