Unsane
Valentina is introducing herself to a mental health center after she voluntarily registered to sit for 24 hours there. The doctors then discover that she must continue to the center because she is already sick because they are concerned that she is afraid to chase a staff member. She must continue to take the treatment for fear of her mental integrity.
9 July 1960, Fort Motte, South Carolina, USA
22 April 1978, Gainesville, Florida, USA
14 October 1987, Chesapeake, Virginia, USA
10 September 1953, Palo Alto, California, USA
16 April 1984, Stockport, England, UK
May 20, 2018
The fact is feels so real makes the scenario even more ominous.May 08, 2018
[Steven Soderbergh] has a knack for making tired genres feel fresh and he brings that magic here.March 26, 2018
A serious movie about mental disorder and the insurance business would be ten times clammier and more disturbing than "Unsane."May 03, 2018
Unsane is not much more than potentially dangerous boilerplate designed to make people fear the mental health profession.March 23, 2018
In 2018, the questions women are asking of art like this are: What exactly are we being asked to consume, and why do we need to sit through it? The answer is, we don't.March 28, 2018
Above all, he revels, with palpable joy, in his repertory of distorted, disturbing, lurid yet lucid images, making a furious movie that signifies nothing but the irrepressible vitality of the cinema itself. Soderbergh's experiment is a success.March 23, 2018
Foy is excellent in a demanding role, and she brings viewers with her on a complex, emotionally knotty journey.March 23, 2018
Knowing that some of cinema's greatest performances are in B-movies, Soderbergh turns Unsane into a vehicle for Foy's ferocious presence.May 14, 2018
Offering up a very different persona from The Crown's Elizabeth Windsor, Foy is a revelation as Sawyer struggles to stay sane and alive in a Kafka-esque nightmare.May 03, 2018
It's hard to know why Steven Soderbergh made Unsane, which is not to say it's not worth seeing.March 29, 2018
The formal playfulness may occasionally undermine Unsane's narrative tension, but it keeps the movie engaging on a visual level.May 04, 2018
It's a nightmarish trip into a mental hospital that has echoes of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest but is never as high-minded about where it goes.