Relay

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Relay

2024

1h 52m

Crime

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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In RELAY, Riz Ahmed plays a world class "fixer" who specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten their ruin. He keeps his identity a secret through meticulous planning and always follows an exacting set of rules. But when a message arrives one day from a potential client (Lily James), needing his protection just to stay alive, the rules quickly start to change.

Robert Daniels

Screen International

Relay falters, unfortunately, the second Mackenzie distrusts the viewer — pulling a twist that neither makes sense nor feels emotionally right.

Sep 13, 2024

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Nicolas Rapold

Financial Times

Director David Mackenzie brilliantly turns the streets and apartments of New York into a workaday battleground...

Sep 12, 2024

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A.A. Dowd

Digital Trends

It’s a reasonably smart thriller that dumbs itself down as it goes, replacing Hitchcockian chess moves with generic gunplay in the final stretch.

Rated: 2.5/5

Sep 11, 2024

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Alex Papaioannou

InSession Film

Relay is more than a film about whistleblowers. Instead, it delves into the murky lines of morality in spaces where whistleblowing occurs.

Rated: C

Oct 23, 2024

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Erik Childress

Movie Madness Podcast

Up until the film nearly derails itself entirely during its climax it is a slick, paranoid cat-and-mouse thriller with Riz Ahmed selling it all with very few spoken words and the fastest typing fingers in recorded history.

Rated: 3/4

Oct 17, 2024

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Nate Adams

The Movie Sleuth

Makes for a nifty thriller whose ambitions actually get in its own way down the final stretch, where a last second twist produces more eye rolls than satisfaction.

Rated: B-

Sep 28, 2024

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Synopsis

In RELAY, Riz Ahmed plays a world class "fixer" who specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten their ruin. He keeps his identity a secret through meticulous planning and always follows an exacting set of rules. But when a message arrives one day from a potential client (Lily James), needing his protection just to stay alive, the rules quickly start to change.

Director: David Mackenzie
Producer: Basil Iwanyk, Gillian Berrie, David Mackenzie, Teddy Schwarzman
Screenwriter: Justin Piasecki
Production Co: Black Bear, Thunder Road Pictures, Sigma Films
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 52m