RELAY (2024)

Advertised as a fun thriller in the 1970s mold—more paranoid atmosphere than action—and it mostly delivers on that premise. Full of fun little screenwriter-y details about not only relay services for the deaf but also things like the arcana of postal forwarding: this is the kind of detail that I always love seeing in a thriller. The final act is a little disappointing—every cat-and-mouse film must eventually end with a confrontation, I suppose, but the film's great asset is its cleverness, and I'd hoped to see more of that cleverness on display as the film works through its climax.

A ★★★½ review of Relay (2024)

Advertised as a fun thriller in the 1970s mold—more paranoid atmosphere than action—and it mostly delivers on that premise. Full of fun little screenwriter-y details about not only relay services for the deaf but also things like the arcana of postal forwarding: this is the kind of detail that I always love seeing in a thriller. The final act is a little disappointing—every cat-and-mouse film must eventually end with a confrontation, I suppose, but the film’s great asset is its cleverness, and I’d hoped to see more of that cleverness on display as the film works through its climax.

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