Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
I kept hoping a power outage would hit their neighborhood, or some sort of natural disaster. Aren't the movies supposed to be a break from being online all the time?

Name : Jacob Hall / Alias : New York Daily News
Although directed with technical finesse by newcomer Levan Gabriadze, "Unfriended" starts shrill and only gets louder as it goes along.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
As a harangue about cyberbullying, it's purely exploitative, but when "Unfriended" zeros in on the whiplash mixture of freedom and torment we get from multitasking our online lives? It's srsly fun, imo.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
The best thing about "Unfriended," beyond its funny-nasty title, is that it doesn't play as remotely dull as it sounds even if most of the drama takes place inside shifting, overlapping windows.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
The filmmakers here completely commit to their gimmick, turning its limitations into benefits and exploiting the chosen technology for maximum effect. In the process, they hit the refresh button on the entire found-footage format.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
It's a mean, potent little movie.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Fresh and fearsome fun.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
A movie to be seen, if you can endure it-as a shrewd commercial venture, as an online opus that undoes your self-composure and, last and foremost, as a window on a mode of thinking that equates to a state of being.

Name : Andrew Lapin / Alias : NPR
The efficient exposition is entirely composed of a LiveLeak video and half a YouTube clip. It's supremely goofy and not scary in the slightest, but the movie is speaking the right language.

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
A horror pic with a new gimmick that likely will spawn an entire subgenre of more substandard rubbish.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
You might want to take along your smartphone to keep yourself entertained.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
At times, "Unfriended" really clicks - but ultimately, it's a drag.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
It's interesting to wonder how the film will age, given the short shelf life of technology. In two years all this might seem as dated as a dial-up modem, technology not nearly advanced enough to support the action here.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
Even though Unfriended begins to cheat, springing loud noises and gory cutaways that can't be explained, there's a rigor to its dopey, blood-simple conception that you might smile at.

Name : John DeFore / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
In the end one would rather be back at one's own computer, tending to the tedious details of digital life, than watching this clique get pinged to death.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
It's basically Friday the 13th on a laptop, but the gimmick works like gangbusters. One request: Please Hollywood cybergods, no sequels.

Name : Bruce Demara / Alias : Toronto Star
Younger audiences in particular are likely to enjoy this entertaining and fast-paced chiller. And who knows? They may even absorb the film's underlying message .

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
Give this movie credit for trying something new - and flat-out committing to it. But just because no one's tried an idea before doesn't mean it's a great one.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
Unfriended is the one movie from 2015 you'll always be able to look back at and feel something of what life was like back when, even if you're not a cyberbullying white teen.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
You might find yourself rooting for the murderer.

Name : Brad Wheeler / Alias : Globe and Mail
If death invented the telephone, it probably invented the Internet infernal, too. Disconnect? The scariest thing is that we can't.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Perhaps director Gabriadze and writer Nelson Greaves intended to create a Social Media "Scream" and a commentary on cyber-bullying, but "Unfriended" comes across as disdainful of millennials.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
I'll admit the film held my attention but I left the theater unsatisfied, which I think will be a common reaction among those not within the demographic niche for which the production was mounted.

Name : Hazel Cills / Alias : Grantland
It's not the B-movie gore death scenes that make Unfriended squirm-inducing, it's how it taps in and holds on tight to how annoying the Internet and computers can be, especially when they're being tinkered with.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Neither as silly as it might look nor as terrifying as its "Titus Andronicus"-via-Mark-Zuckerberg set-up promises, it takes a high-concept yet bare-bones premise and milks it for all the jolts it can.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
Simultaneously clever and exasperating.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
If it has a point about the way we treat people online, it's lost in an illogical ghost story that never bothers explaining itself.

Name : Michael Ordona / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
The inevitable meltdowns feel unearned because of predictable, yet unmotivated, character turns. There's no one to root for, not even the dead girl. Nothing seems important enough.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
"Unfriended" starts wearing out its welcome about 10 minutes before the end. But it's clever enough about social media to keep an audience engaged until then .

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
You feel some mild critique of lives lived through web applications. What you don't feel is sustained visceral fright.

Name : Clark Collis / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Though not particularly ground-breaking-last year's Elijah Wood-starring Open Windows pulled the same trick, and much more ambitiously-we're still going to "like" the result.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
If you can give yourself over to the idea of Unfriended,you'll find it's surprisingly engrossing and really quite clever.

Name : Farran Smith Nehme / Alias : New York Post
"About Elly" shows that the ethical dilemmas of ordinary adults can, with this level of talent, become as gripping as any thriller.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
This superb, suspenseful film . opens as a playful comedy of vacationing couples and awkward romance, one that might be set in the French countryside, but by the end has become a moral drama likely to corrode your certainties.

Name : Bob Mondello / Alias : NPR
A thriller perched right on the fault line between modern thinking and Islamic tradition.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
It's breezy, then suspenseful, and gradually, crushingly sad. On its own terms, it's a perfect film.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
The dense interweave of relationships, a Farhadi specialty, is continually compelling.

Name : Jordan Hoffman / Alias : New York Daily News
As with director Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning "A Separation," this new film lets truth slowly be revealed through mystery - and after a shocking incident.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
"About Elly" both clutches us tight and shuts us out, adding wave upon wave of secrets and lies.

Name : Alissa Simon / Alias : Variety
While not equaling the depth of characterization of Farhadi's previous films, About Elly takes the complexity of his storytelling to a fascinating level. However, the variable quality of the thesping also prevents the pic from being his best work.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
This is clearly the work of a master in the making, an artist on the cusp of greatness. Farhadi may be fixated on fibbers, but there's almost no one working today who makes films so emotionally honest.

Name : Stephen Holden / Alias : New York Times
You begin to wonder to what extent the film is a critique of an entire society in which the disparity between tradition and modernity is irreconcilable.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
It has taken six years for this terrific film to work its way back to us, and if possible I think it's even better and more relevant in 2015 than when it was made.

Name : Deborah Young / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
About Elly confirms director Asghar Farhadi as a major talent in Iranian cinema whose ability to chronicle the middle-class malaise of his society is practically unrivaled.

Name : Dave Calhoun / Alias : Time Out
The film's escalating energy, hysteria even, and moral debates will invite comparisons to the hothouse drama of 'A Separation'.