'Spiderhead': Netflix's Newest Underwhelming High-Concept Sci-fi Thriller
'Spiderhead' is Netflix's latest high high-concept Sci-fi offering in the acts of Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, and Mark Paguio

Mr. Verloc runs an anarchist business in London at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, but he is also a Russian agent. The Eastern power no longer wants harmless denunciations of radical comrades, but demands real action for its money.
'Spiderhead' is Netflix's latest high high-concept Sci-fi offering in the acts of Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, and Mark Paguio
The clever but socially-awkward Tetê joins a new school, and she'll do anything to fit in.
Some people’s first introduction to Mira Nair might be as New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mom. But with her insightful direction of 1991’s Mississippi Masala, Nair shows how much she deserves to be known as an artist. Delivering a nuanced portrait of a romance between a Black man and an Indian woman living in the South, Nair explores the complications each character faces, giving both equal weight.
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The film didn’t have to be as long as it is. It just dragged on and on with scenes that had no substance. Every so often we get an action scene, and even those isn’t that fun.
The film may be a thriller, but I wasn’t thrilled by it. If anything, I was bored and annoyed.