Songbird

Name: Songbird
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romance
Released: December 11, 2020
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 27
Cast: Alexandra Daddario, Bradley Whitford, Craig Robinson, Demi Moore, Elpidia Carrillo

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Movie Details & Credits

STX Films | Release Date (Streaming): December 11, 2020 | PG-13

Starring: Alexandra Daddario, Bradley Whitford, Craig Robinson, Demi Moore, Elpidia Carrillo, Jenna Ortega, K.J. Apa, Lia McHugh, Paul Walter Hauser, Peter Stormare, Sofia Carson

Summary: The COVID-23 virus has mutated and the world is in its fourth year of lockdown. Infected Americans are ripped from their homes and forced into quarantine camps known as Q-Zones, from which there is no escape, as a few brave souls fight back against the forces of oppression. Amid this dystopian landscape, a fearless courier, Nico (KJ Apa),The COVID-23 virus has mutated and the world is in its fourth year of lockdown. Infected Americans are ripped from their homes and forced into quarantine camps known as Q-Zones, from which there is no escape, as a few brave souls fight back against the forces of oppression. Amid this dystopian landscape, a fearless courier, Nico (KJ Apa), who’s immune to the deadly pathogen, finds hope and love with Sara (Sofia Carson), though her lockdown prohibits them from physical contact. When Sara is believed to have become infected, Nico races desperately across the barren streets of Los Angeles in search of the only thing that can save her from imprisonment ... or worse. … Expand

Director: Adam Mason

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 90 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Dec 10, 2020

Songbird is an acceptably watchable thriller that’s more notable for what it achieves technically than anything else. For many, the topical gimmick will prove irresistible but for others, it will be repellent, making the decision to avoid an expensive, anti-escapist rental all too easy. Either way, it’s headed to the history books. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Dec 10, 2020

We’ll eventually see dozens if not hundreds of projects using the pandemic as a plot point. Songbird will be among the least memorable. Read full review

Noel Murray

Dec 10, 2020

Mason does a lot to make the characters’ distanced interactions — mostly via video chat — seem natural and not like a gimmick. But the real-world resonances are actually fairly dull. Though not especially objectionable, Songbird may suffer a worse fate: being forgettable. Read full review

Alonso Duralde

Dec 10, 2020

It’s not inherently misguided to use a current tragedy as the jumping-off point of a genre movie, but any filmmaker who decides to do so had better create something provocative or interesting or at least competent to justify it. Read full review

Blake Goble

Dec 11, 2020

Adam Mason’s Songbird is about boring people getting mad that they’re stuck inside, and the government is oppressing them, and they’ll soon fly free or whatever. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Dec 10, 2020

It becomes clear early on that, despite its cheap thriller trappings, the film is headed only in the blandest direction, basically a love story of the kind traditionally told in commercials for tech companies and phones. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Dec 14, 2020

The truth is that even if one sets aside all potential moral arguments about the very existence of "Songbird," it's still just really bad. If you're going to make a movie this exploitative and gross, you really have to make it better to disguise the smell of it all. Read full review

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shawp96

Dec 14, 2020

Great cast. Great movie. A storyline we can connect to. It does not deserve the bad scores it has been getting, especially when it was written, directed, and produced all in the same year.

4 of 7 users found this helpful43

Atlantisknight

Aug 14, 2021

Often times, Hollywood conditions a population for the future. This film isn't much for entertainment value but it's a huge warning for anyone who loves freedom. Ofcourse the future won't look exactly like the movie but it will be close enough.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

sunshinelife

Mar 7, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Okay, this movie isn't the best in the pandemic time. Because it's really bashing and controverse to see. But it shows how manipulable people are, if only dollars signs are in her/his eyes.
There are some topics to find: Corona Virus Prostitution emotional/physical abuse
Difference between cultures… Expand

2 of 3 users found this helpful21

Miss_Butterfly

Mar 14, 2021

Let’s hope it never come to that, good film with action and a lot of thinking

2 of 3 users found this helpful21

maxsorio10

Mar 22, 2021

It's not exceptional but I liked it and enjoyed it, I felt the tension, I want to see it again, promise me.one thing, don't ever give up

2 of 2 users found this helpful20

JLuis_001

Dec 15, 2020

Was someone really asking for a film about COVID?

True, the question is already irrelevant at this point, but this tasteless and stupid thriller has nothing substantial to sustain it, it's merely a thriller that seeks to take advantage of the situation, and does so in a cheap and patheticWas someone really asking for a film about COVID?

True, the question is already irrelevant at this point, but this tasteless and stupid thriller has nothing substantial to sustain it, it's merely a thriller that seeks to take advantage of the situation, and does so in a cheap and pathetic way.

Avoid it. I really mean it.… Expand

2 of 4 users found this helpful22

vobrandon

Dec 28, 2020

Very bad movie. Not enough action. I've wasted $20 to rent this movie and 90 minutes of my life for this bad movie. Don't rent or buy!!

0 of 2 users found this helpful02

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