OBEX

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OBEX

2025

1h 30m

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

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Set in pre-internet 1987, Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog Sandy, until the day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing the line between reality and the game blurs, and Conor must embark on a mission to save her. OBEX creatively weaves together fantastic horror elements to embark on a nostalgic adventure through time and space, immersing audiences inside of a unique video game where a fairy, monster, TV-headed man, lovable dog, and swarms of cicadas collide in a strange and captivating narrative world.

Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Though OBEX, too, is a fantasy, it’s also a work of meticulous realism -- but the realities that it dramatizes are so unusual and so finely observed that they outshine the imaginative speculations to which they give rise.

Feb 11, 2025

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Carlos Aguilar

Variety

A miniature epic of melancholic whimsy endearingly conceived in black-and-white with a lo-fi aesthetic.

Jan 31, 2025

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Ryan Lattanzio

IndieWire

A warm yearn for simpler times, told by a distinctive cinematic voice.

Rated: B+

Jan 31, 2025

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Luke Gorham

In Review Online

There’s reason for momentary concern that the whole of the project will amount of little more than amiable Lynchian pastiche. But tapping out too early on the basis of such an assumption would be a mistake.

Aug 12, 2025

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Hunter Bush

MovieJawn

As a film, OBEX is at times unsettling, at times thrilling, but always fascinating and made with a deliberateness that's extremely confident and self-assured.

Aug 9, 2025

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Nadine Whitney

The Curb

It is nigh on impossible not to love a movie which is radically uncommercial made by a bunch of clever oddballs in their (actual) backyards which houses such a depth of emotion and relatable depictions of loneliness and isolation. OBEX is superb.

Rated: 5/5

Aug 7, 2025

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Set in pre-internet 1987, Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog Sandy, until the day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing the line between reality and the game blurs, and Conor must embark on a mission to save her. OBEX creatively weaves together fantastic horror elements to embark on a nostalgic adventure through time and space, immersing audiences inside of a unique video game where a fairy, monster, TV-headed man, lovable dog, and swarms of cicadas collide in a strange and captivating narrative world.

Director: Albert Birney
Producer: Emma Hannaway, Pete Ohs, James Belfer, Albert Birney
Screenwriter: Albert Birney, Pete Ohs
Production Co: Cartuna, True Friend
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 30m