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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 May 2018

Upgrade offers memorable, legible fights, a compelling bombed-out retro-apocalyptic look and a mystery that seems obvious at the start but…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for Baret News (418) on 29 May 2018

A timely cautionary tale about Artificial Intelligence you don't want to miss…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for Washington Post (9,851) on 29 May 2018

If this vaguely cyberpunk, occasionally comic Australian flick were named after its own qualities, it would have been called “Knockoff.”…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for The Seattle Times (964) on 29 May 2018

Upgrade is a brutish, efficient and well-executed slice of cyberpunk action horror with a silly streak…

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By Isaac Feldberg (119) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 29 May 2018

Upgrade, Whannell’s second outing behind the camera, is yet another top-notch repair job, this time a kinetic sci-fi riff fashioned from…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 29 May 2018

Upgrade is hugely enjoyable and delivers just about everything it promised…

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By Frank Scheck (1,741) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 29 May 2018

Infusing its familiar dystopian sci-fi tropes with stylishly gonzo, low-budget filmmaking and inventive narrative flourishes, Upgrade proves…

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By Katie Rife (451) for AV Club (2,778) on 28 May 2018

Whannell strikes out on his own with his first truly original concept as a writer-director...in a film whose production is as ambitious as…

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By Sarah Watt (52) for Stuff.co.nz (387) on 28 May 2018

And yet, for…

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By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 28 May 2018

Upgrade’s sheer energy and the strength of its concept do more than enough to elevate this revenge picture into something refreshing and…

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By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 May 2018

Upgrade is most effective when mining the comical and bizarre love-hate chemistry between Grey and Stem and pairing that singular conflict…

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By Robert Kojder (605) for Flickering Myth (680) on 27 May 2018

Grey may be going through an inner struggle that questions whether he is truly in control or not, but you have the free will to purchase a…

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By Danielle Solzman (397) for Solzy at the Movies (339) on 27 May 2018

An homage to the 1980s sci-fi action thrillers but made for the 21st Century, Upgradeshows why we shouldn't place our faith in the hands of…

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By Travis Johnson (154) for FILMINK (Australia) (1,405) on 22 May 2018

the wild, anarchic creativity of DTV SF permeates Upgrade, only it's sheathed in the concerns of today, not mired in the cultural extrapolations…

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By Andrew Whalen (25) for Newsweek (1,534) on 22 May 2018

By merging Deus Ex cyberpunk, third-person action games and the dirty old bones of 70s exploitation, Upgrade earns installation in your memory core…

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By Dana Schwartz (34) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 20 May 2018

As a movie, it’s the cinematic equivalent of paint-by-numbers: competent, attractive even, but take a single step closer and the lines peek…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for IndieWire (3,631) on 03 Apr 2018

At the end of the day, it’s the action equivalent of a secondhand musical – you’ll most likely come for the dance scenes, and they’re…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 22 Mar 2018

For the ambition alone, it's worth the watch; for its daring approach, and another effortless depiction of a broken soul from Marshall-Green,…

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By Scott Weinberg (1,998) for Crooked Marquee (120) on 16 Mar 2018

The flick is more sci-fi/action than full-bore horror, but there are certainly several themes, jolts, and gory kills that'll keep the genre…

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By Meredith Borders (105) for Bloody Disgusting (327) on 15 Mar 2018

Even in its most self-serious moments, Upgrade is more fun to watch than a lot of low-budget sci-fi movies we see in festival or VOD settings…

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