"Soderbergh drops us into that world with a casualness that's unnerving precisely because of how unnerving it is't; this is how we live now, he and screenwriter David Koepp suggest, with a pandemic outside our windows and the world at our fingertips. Most of "Kimi" unfolds in the spacious Seattle loft that Angela calls home, though we soon see that it has also become her gym, her workspace and her permanent refuge. Like the heroine of last year’s misbegotten "The Woman in the Window" and many a shut-in protagonist before her, Angela (played by Zoë Kravitz) is agoraphobic, an anxiety disorder she says she’d gotten a handle on until COVID-19 lockdown set in. Now she's content never to leave her almost entirely Kimi-run apartment, outsourcing menial tasks to an inanimate hub that records her every data point and keeps her under 24-7 digital surveillance."
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Justin Chang, Review: Steven Soderbergh's HBO Max thriller 'Kimi' is 'Parallax View' for the pandemic era, Los Angeles Times, February 9, 2022
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