"In a sleek 89 minutes, writer David Koepp (whose similarly contained thriller Panic Room was notably watched by Soderbergh twice last year) keeps things refreshingly simple and stringently devoid of any extraneous padding. It's no surprise, after an opening tease concerning the financial specifics of the company behind Kimi, that there's a conspiracy to unravel but it unravels with a quick ease, an age-old tale of the hero who saw too much and the villain who wants to keep them quiet. We know where films like this tend to go, and Kimi is light on genuine surprise, but Koepp and Soderbergh keep most of it grounded, avoiding the clumsy narrative leaps these films often resort to, making so much of it feel awfully credible."
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Benjamin Lee, Kimi review – Steven Soderbergh's sleek and stylish tech thriller, The Guardian, February 10, 2022
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