After a perfectly-devised "silent" tragic opening (inspired by Up), in another modification of the found-footage genre, the story of a father searching for his missing daughter is told entirely on laptop/iPad/smartphone screens. Distracted for a second, and you miss a crucial plot element in this tightly-written script - most brilliant at how it conveys the main character's thought process by the sudden halt of a moving cursor onscreen. Sole criticism: how a movie so disturbingly portraying the horrors of social media exposure, suddenly ends as a whodunit - leaving one thinking: now what? Still, one of the year's memorable movies.
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