American Sweatshop

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American Sweatshop

2025

1h 40m

Mystery & Thriller

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A social media moderator (Lili Reinhart) is tasked with purging the most offensive content from the internet. When she finds a video she believes to contain a crime, she's lured away from the safety of her keyboard and into a dangerous world as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable.

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Led by Lili Reinhart's powerful portrayal of a deteriorating mind, American Sweatshop delivers a bracingly tense exploration of the dark side of digital labor and 21st century disillusionment.

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Kristy Puchko

Mashable

Aug 29

American Sweatshop is a cool and riveting thriller that gets under your skin, creeping up your spine to bend your brain. Like the internet videos that are its grim inspiration, it's not easy to shake off the chills American Sweatshop triggers.

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

Aug 29

2.5/4

As often as this film frustrated me regarding Nemeth’s shallow script, I was impressed by the choices made by Lili Reinhart, who plays Daisy’s numbness not as apathy, but something fueled by frustration and anger.

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Jacob Oller

AV Club

Mar 12

C-

American Sweatshop feels like it’s casually swiping through its themes, never coalescing into a feed as unsettling as the real thing.

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Joe Lipsett

Anatomy of a Scream Podcast Network

Oct 30

3.5/5

A tense (and scarily topical) look at the depravity of the Internet. The film thankfully subverts the inclination to become a female 8MM, instead focusing on the devastating mental impact of content moderation. Reinhart is excellent in an understated perf

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

Oct 11

After you watch this film you’ll probably want to log off indefinitely, touch some grass, and hug your pet.

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Martin Unsworth

Starburst

Sep 29

4/5

As Daisy gets further into the rabbit hole of depravity, the more depressing the film becomes. Briesewitz ramps up emotional levels and makes the viewer glad they’re not content moderators.

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William R

@MileHighMilk 5d

Very surface level plot. Mid-level suspense. Lackluster ending.

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Smokestack

@6655tired Jan 5

Possibly the only movie of 2025 that wasn't predictable? i see other comments about not liking the end, but i love how american sweatshop rejects what was expected and forces us to think what we would do if we really were in that situation.

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Avindu G

Jan 4

American Sweatshop presents us the dark realities of modern slavery. How mechanized humans pick-up the slack for their robotic descendants. This tale is another needle jab at the bubble. Symbolical visuals and the decent acting by the cast to portray how different personalities cope with the pressures is excellent. It's a haunting depiction of what the first responders of the tech industry has to come across. Greatly entertaining.

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Lorne H

@Hartcore Dec 31

Cinematic crap, don't bother.

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Mike C

@magic26601 Dec 28

Kind of boring. Ending really needed work.

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M. T

@Marissat Dec 27

I want my time back!

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Synopsis

A social media moderator (Lili Reinhart) is tasked with purging the most offensive content from the internet. When she finds a video she believes to contain a crime, she's lured away from the safety of her keyboard and into a dangerous world as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable.

Director: Uta Briesewitz
Producer: Anita Elsani, Uta Briesewitz, Jason Sosnoff, Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana
Screenwriter: Matthew Nemeth, Matt Nemeth
Distributor: Brainstorm Media
Production Co: Elsani Film, Baltimore Pictures
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 29, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 19, 2025
Runtime: 1h 40m

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