Rating: 3.5/4 Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation is over the top, at times, lacks coherency, and is longer than it needs to be, yet it’s still brilliant...

This year’s LFF Cult strand ventures beyond the bounds of identity, adolescence and ethics in these incautious cautionary tales from France to Brazil, ...

★★★★★ Set in modern-day Salem, the events of Assassination Nation bear more than a passing resemblance to the town’s infamous hysterical witch-h...

Sam Levinson's violent, blunt-force satire about the filthy internet secrets we keep is at once unsubtle and compelling.

In the dark teen comedy 'Assassination Nation,' a suburban town turns against high school students Lily (Odessa Young, left and clockwise), Bex (Hari Nef), S...

This violent teenage fever dream presents a hateful apocalyptic vision of today's youth

Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse and Bill Skarsgard star in an American satire . Read the Empire review.

Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef, and Abra star in Sam Levinson's dark comedy.

Four teenage girls become the scapegoats for a town whose secrets are spilled by a hacker in 'Assassination Nation,' Sam Levinson's horror comedy.

It's a kind of 2018 reboot of the Salem witch trials: it's the same target – the sexually free woman – but different times

The biggest sale at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival is a rambunctious indictment of the internet era.

When secrets are posted online, a paranoid town goes after four teen women in the horror movie 'Assassination Nation.'

Review: Plenty of films try to deconstruct the online life but few have dug as deeply as this

The one good thing to say about the slasher pop satire “Assassination Nation,” a badly bungled attempt at social commentary from writer/director Sam Levi...

Sam Levinson’s satirical teen thriller about an IRL witchhunt leaves a nasty taste in the mouth.

Sam Levinson’s bloody social satire offers up a grab bag of trigger warnings and hashtags.

Reveling in comic-book violence and blunt messaging, it’s a movie intended to trigger you

A review of four films from the Midnight program of the Sundance Film Festival.

A checklist of grave topics that exclusively speaks in shallow buzzwords without giving any of its themes the depth they deserve.

Equal parts “The Crucible,” “Kill Bill” and well, hell — “Carrie” — “Assassination Nation” is straight up action exploitation, a  scanti...

'Assassination Nation' thinks its sex-violence-and-snark take on the female revenge movie is also social commentary. Nope. Our review.

“This is this is the story of how my town, Salem, lost its motherfucking mind,” says Lily (Odessa Young) in the opening moments of Assassination Nation, ...

We watched them and rated them, now read all about them. The Globe’s critics reviewed a wide selection of films screening at TIFF 2018 so you’ll know whi...

“Assassination Nation” starts off in deliciously horrific fashion, with a warning about the "sensory assault" that's about to happen onscreen.

★★★★☆“My name is Lily Colson, I’m 18 years old and I don’t think I’m going to live through the night.” Here it is, the definitive movie f...

This colorful mash-up of classic cinema tropes goes in a million directions, but sheer chutzpah gets it across the finish line

A Sundance 2018 acquisition by Neon, written and directed by Sam Levinson is a teen sex film that’s all style and no substance.

The Salem witch trials get inflamed by social media in Sam Levinson's carpet-bombing modern update.

Assassination speaks to a trend in today’s movies: a sense that our current social and political trajectories make peaceful reconciliation impossible.