Profile

"Imagine your Windows desktop screen, but even less upsetting, off-putting, and terrifying."

"The dichotomy between [the characters], as much as the bigger picture of the rabbit hole Amy goes spiraling down, is what gives Profile its suspenseful power."

"Screenlife format isn't just a gimmick, it's an effective and unconventional cinematic method..."

"The film crackles with tension."

"Any factual grounding gives way beneath the film as it devolves into shrill heart-versus-head melodrama."

"It is contrived but it does hang together, just about..."

"The answers to these mysteries are mighty predictable, but Profile nevertheless sells us on how seductive these interactions can be."

"The performances are unremarkable, the direction minimal, while the clumsy appropriation of a real world Isis threat for cheap cinematic thrills seems, at best, questionable."