"The nexus of tech and crime in "Kimi" packs a personal and a collective outrage at the ways in which tech companies have abandoned their civic responsibility and allowed, even fostered, propaganda—whether anti-vax or conspiracy-theorist or racist or misogynistic or anti-Semitic or xenophobic—that has got people killed. The depraved indifference in the name of stock prices finds its symbol in Kimi—not only in the way it's managed but also in its seemingly innocent domestic presence. The blatant but forceful metaphorical condensation of world-spanning power in a conical gizmo energizes Soderbergh's direction throughout; it appears inseparable from the physicality and the visual intensity that distinguish the movie from more routine storytelling."
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Richard Brody, Steven Soderbergh's "Kimi" Is a Tech Thriller That Packs a Potent Outrage, The New Yorker, February 9, 2022
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