Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.
Kimi is a sleek, efficiently made pandemic-era thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh with his trademark visual precision — the Seattle apartment cinematography and color grading are genuinely striking and above average for the genre. The agoraphobia-meets-surveillance-capitalism premise is timely and reasonably well-executed, with Zoë Kravitz delivering a grounded, internalized performance. However, the plot is fairly conventional once it shifts into a standard chase thriller in the third act, and the ending feels rushed and somewhat anticlimactic, squandering the tension built up earlier. Novelty is middling — the COVID setting and tech-paranoia angle add flavor but the bones are familiar Hitchcockian territory without a sufficiently distinctive twist.