American Sweatshop

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American Sweatshop

Aug 2025

1h 40m

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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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Kristy Puchko

Mashable

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.

Aug 29, 2025

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

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.

Rated: 2.5/4

Aug 29, 2025

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Jacob Oller

AV Club

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

Rated: C-

Mar 12, 2025

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

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

Oct 11, 2025

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Martin Unsworth

Starburst

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.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 29, 2025

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Casey Chong

Casey's Movie Mania

Lili Reinhart delivers her best role to date in this uneven but timely drama about content moderation.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 20, 2025

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Izzy l

It was good until i realized that was the ending. I feel like im missing half of the movie… wouldnt really recommend tbh… Like someone else said, i feel like this whole movie should have been condensed into the first half, and have the second half actually be finding the dude and whatever follows. Disappointing.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/20/25

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Avori S

Really slow, predictable, never really gets into the action. The entire movie could have been the first 10mins because the plot goes nowhere. Lili did amazing as always but other than that it was just boring.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/14/25

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Al P

Was fully getting ready to give this 5*..... But the ending was so disappointing i shouted wtf when the credits came up. Amazing acting, amazing storyline.... and then the ended came to literally nothing.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

10/13/25

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Tyson D

Would not recommend spending your 6 or 7 bucks if don’t like boring movies

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/12/25

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Jerod S

Social media moderator gets beat down by the job of looking at horrible content. And she decides to do something about it. Concept cool. Script bad.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/08/25

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Joshua B

Absolute worst movie I've seen in some time, I usually can always find a redeeming quality in all films as I truly love movies. But this is by far one of the worst movies ever made. And how ever they were able to take an actually interesting topic and destroy it, this movie takes the cake. I have nothing else to say other than I couldn't wait for this movie to finish which is exceptionally rare. PASS!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/07/25

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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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