Monolith

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Monolith

R

Released Feb 16, 2024

1h 34m

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

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While trying to salvage her career, a disgraced journalist begins investigating a strange conspiracy theory. But as the trail leads uncomfortably close to home, she is left to grapple with the lies at the heart of her own story.

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Carried by Lily Sullivan's outstanding lead performance and enriched by an expertly administered sense of creeping claustrophobia, Monolith is an eerie thriller that burns slow and lingers.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

An industrious indie that defies its genre conventions every step of the way.

Rated: 3/4

Feb 28, 2024

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Phil Hoad

Guardian

Matt Vesely’s impressive debut ably stakes out its own territory, not least in the vast distances covered by a single on-screen actor and a handful of vocal performances.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 20, 2024

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

In the end, the goal was clearly to trap us in the increasingly fractured mind of a single person who increasingly believes what is beyond believable. Mission accomplished.

Rated: 3/4

Feb 16, 2024

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Jorge Loser

Espinof

The final sequence delivers a couple of terrifying scenes that stand out for their elegance and make Matt Vesely a director to watch... [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3/5

Aug 28, 2024

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Hernán Ferreirós

La Nación (Argentina)

Just as 2001 pondered upon humanity's place within the cosmos, this film pursues a no less elusive problem: the place of truth in the age of digital media. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3/5

Jun 10, 2024

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Kat Halstead

Common Sense Media

The only actor on-screen for the entire 94-minute runtime, Sullivan impresses as a disgraced journalist looking for redemption via an eerie unexplained mystery in this psychological sci-fi film

May 20, 2024

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Christopher V

This movie is about trauma. It’s full of triggers… it’s subtlety is very sublime and when you being to see what’s happening it’s both frightening and comforting. Because we’ve all been through something familiar.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/13/25

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Brian M

One of the bleakest movies I’ve seen in a while. Very claustrophobic, menacing, and paranoid mystery with plot twists a-plenty.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

05/28/25

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MikesReviewsArt n

89% The ending is up for interpretation either she’s surviving and told her what happened or she died and then the evil alien clone told the story and spread it either way it’s gonna get spread the word mouth thing. Interesting mystery as she tries to solve it about the black brick. The Messaging about the past, guilt. The lead gives a great performance effective closed space thriller, love those type of films.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/26/25

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Lucio Leonardo P

Entertainment that was well-received by critics but that I didn't like. It has an originality that arouses our curiosity, maintaining a good atmosphere of suspense for a while, until it becomes tiresome, meaningless, without explanations and with an already "beaten" ending for the podcast talking about a monolith

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/10/25

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Diane B

It was good for about 70% of the movie and then took a turn for the worst! The storyline got confusing as though there was a rush to end it.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/17/25

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Colin A

An excellent, mysterious, and self contained film.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/02/25

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Synopsis

While trying to salvage her career, a disgraced journalist begins investigating a strange conspiracy theory. But as the trail leads uncomfortably close to home, she is left to grapple with the lies at the heart of her own story.

Director: Matt Vesely
Producer: Bettina Hamilton
Screenwriter: Lucy Campbell
Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment
Production Co: The South Australian Film Corporation
Rating: R (Language)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 16, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 16, 2024
Runtime: 1h 34m

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