A striking legacy of 9/11 is how the United States government exploited national grief and panic to pass aggressive legislation stripping Americans of privacy rights. The Uniting and Strengthening ...

Don’t let the fact that “Relay” is jogging quietly into theaters in the dog days of summer fool you. The latest effort from “Hell or High Water” director David Mackenzie is a smart and engaging ...

For Relay, Mackenzie leans heavily on our lead character, played by Riz Ahmed (he goes by several names in the film; we’ll use James), to do much of the heavy lifting, and it’s masterfully handled. In ...

Riz Ahmed and Lily James bring audiences to the edge of their seats in Relay, a pulse-pounding thriller where the protagonists are cleverly separated until a dynamite third act. The premise sees an ...

As the social media saying goes, the “vibes are immaculate” for the first two acts of David Mackenzie’s Relay. For a while, I was really enjoying what felt like a modern send-up on a Michael Mann or ...

Featuring a terrific central performance from Riz Ahmed, ‘Relay’ is styled very much in the mold of classic paranoid thrillers from the 1970s like ‘The Parallax View’ and ‘The Conversation.’ It’s not ...