NO CALLERS ARE IDENTIFIED. NO CONVERSATIONS ARE RECORDED. NO PHONE RECORDS ARE KEPT. NOW SPEAK CLEARLY AND WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED SAY: “GO AHEAD”.

Ash (Riz Ahmed), who works as a secretive mediator between whistleblowers and their former employers, tries to help Sarah Grant (Lily James) who’s gotten cold feet about what she’s done.

A fresh spin on classic paranoia thrillers, retaining the look and feel of those films, but introducing a new means of communication, where the characters stay in touch via an anonymized phone system intended for the hard of hearing.

A relationship builds between our two leads who never meet, until the last half hour when a twist changes things. Far from entirely convincing, but briskly paced, with a good cast.

2025-U.S. 112 min. Color. Widescreen. Directed by David Mackenzie. Cast: Riz Ahmed (Ash), Lily James (Sarah Grant), Sam Worthington (Dawson), Willa Fitzgerald, Jared Abrahamson, Pun Bandhu, Victor Garber. 

Trivia: Co-produced by Mackenzie.