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Lapsis binds economic anxiety to an unsettling sci-fi story set in the not-too-distant future, with smartly inventive results. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.

Genre:

drama, mystery and thriller, sci fi, comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Noah Hutton
Producer:

Taylor Hess, Jesse Miller, Joseph Varca
Writer:

Noah Hutton
Release Date (Theaters):

Feb 12, 2021 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Feb 12, 2021
Runtime:

1h 44m
Production Co:

Couple 3 Films
Aspect Ratio:

Scope (2.35:1)

Cast & Crew

Madeline Wise
Anna

Dean Imperial
Ray

Ivory Aquino
Jo

Babe Howard
Jamie

Dora Madison
Erica

James McDaniel
Felix

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Critic Reviews for Lapsis

All Critics (41) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (3)

Noah Hutton's sci-fi satire takes on greedy corporations that prey on gig workers and does it with smarts while never shirking its primary obligation - to entertain.

February 25, 2021 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Randy Myers
San Jose Mercury News
The low-budget, idea-driven corner of science fiction has become a crowded place recently. Lapsis is the latest entry worth seeing and arguing about.

February 16, 2021 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Matt Zoller Seitz
RogerEbert.com
I found it sort of engaging... one of the rare sci-fi movies that's a blue collar sci-fi movie.

February 13, 2021 | Full Review…

Peter Rainer
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
A refreshing instance of world building where the emphasis is on satirical wit, activist smarts and character, it feels like one of those movies we'll be looking at decades from now...

February 12, 2021 | Full Review…

Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
"Lapsis" isn't a polemic, it's a caricature, and all the more likable for having its claws sheathed in velvet.

February 11, 2021 | Full Review…

Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
Lapsis lives on the central performance by Dean Imperial as Ray, and that life is undoubtedly vibrant and complex.

October 8, 2020 | Full Review…

Richard Whittaker
Austin Chronicle
Feels more on-the-nose and trite than of-the-moment and insightful... the result of a script that doesn't quite know what to do with the originality of its premise.

February 22, 2021 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Lisa Trifone
Third Coast Review
Behind an intriguing concept and a character-driven approach, this science-fiction oddity becomes a clever high-tech cautionary tale.

February 19, 2021 | Full Review…

Todd Jorgenson
Cinemalogue
This engaging sci-fi drama-mystery takes a low-tech and unconventionally rural route to convincing effect in an astute high-concept parable about worker exploitation.

February 16, 2021 | Full Review…

Craig Takeuchi
Georgia Straight
Minimalist science fiction that sticks with you... and gives you a lot to chew on.

February 13, 2021 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Roger Moore
Movie Nation
The film creates a reasonable, eerily authentic world of the future, which looks a lot like ours and has a lot of the same problems.

February 12, 2021 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Mark Dujsik
Mark Reviews Movies
A mysterious dystopian satire of the gig economy and the healthcare industry, among others, Lapsis executes big ideas on a budget, with inventiveness and creativity.

December 1, 2020 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Brent McKnight
The Last Thing I See