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American Sweatshop

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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. Go to Full Review
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. Go to Full Review
Jacob Oller AV Club 03/12/2025
C-
American Sweatshop feels like it’s casually swiping through its themes, never coalescing into a feed as unsettling as the real thing. Go to Full Review
Olivia Popp Cineuropa Jan 17
The screenplay bends to slightly absurd dialogue and character choices that feel half-baked: "What the fuck is wrong with you?" demands Daisy’s boss, brandishing a printout of a video of a woman jumping from a 20-storey building. Go to Full Review
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 Go to Full Review
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. Go to Full Review
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Matt L @laxlilly Jul 7 I like that the movie depicted a job that I have never considered before- the moderators tasked with absorbing the worst content online so the rest of us never have to. The film captures the slow deterioration of these employees, and that central idea is genuinely compelling. The problem is that the premise was already clear from the trailer, and the actual story built around it wasn’t interesting. It follows a moderator’s fixation over a disturbing video, and her declining mental health. She turns into a vigilante who is obsessed with finding the creator of the disturbing video. That character transformation should have weighed on me, but I found myself apathetic to her suffering. The story itself just wasn’t convincing enough to buy into. The lead actress, was good, the material was just meh. I think the ending intended to be serious, maybe even frightening, but it came off almost comical instead. When the movie ended, my first thought was “that was disappointing.” See more Martin F @manekenthe Jun 6 content moderation as a thriller premise, genuinely unsettling on paper. the opening pulls you in and lili reinhart does what she can. but the characters never really develop, the script keeps circling around the tension it promises and never delivers, and the ending is a mess. what could have been a disturbing, under-the-skin thriller quietly becomes a bore. i wouldn't last a day at that job, but I also wouldn't rewatch this film. See more Paul S @RT58262907 May 21 American Sweatshop had a great trailer, and it could have been an incredible move - but it missed the mark. I expected a thrilling story about a woman seeking vigilante justice - but the actual movie was slow, drawn out, and mostly uneventful. The concept had lots of potential - but it leaves you thinking ‘umm… that’s it?’ Follow the audience score on this one. See more Darja S @darjasuri May 13 If Promising Young Woman didn't make the men suffer enough for your taste, this one will. Violence against women so normalised no one believes it's real. Law enforcement that waits for a body before acting. And a woman who decides that sometimes the only way to stop a bad thing is with another bad thing. Full review → darjasuri.com/reviews/american-sweatshop/ See more Isla G @RT86513232 Apr 22 La propuesta inicial con la que da comienzo es realmente interesante: aquellos que controlan lo que todos vemos, y saber si realmente hacen algo ellos mismos o se rigen por alguien más generando rispideces en la mente de cada uno preguntándose el grado de moralidad de su trabajo. Y hasta cierto punto lo cumple, pero en el medio de eso la película surfea por otros temas que se siente más como para rellenar que porque la trama lo necesite. Como que te quiere decir que la prota es la única que se preocupa (y hace algo) y el resto no entonces no interesan, pero de la nada sí importan y luego dejan de hacerlo y son relleno de escenas. Esto afecta a la dinámica pareciendo en varios momentos en clásico momento en que la protagonista toma las riendas y va a hacer lo que viene tanteando desde hace casi 1 hora, y se queda a mitad de camino muchísimas veces afectando directamente el ritmo, siendo una ensalada de escenas que intentan unirse mediante un muy pequeño hilo te cocer. See more Will S @RT52834923 Apr 6 Moves really slow and the main character is incredibly unlikable. See more Read all reviews
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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