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    Review: John Cho endures every father's worst nightmare in the innovative mystery-thriller 'Searching'

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Aug 24, 2018 4 minutes

    The eeriest scene in the gripping techno-whodunit "Searching" consists of little more than a computer screensaver, glowing silently in the dark like a jellyfish. A series of incoming call notifications pop up on the screen, but the computer's owner, David Kim (John Cho), is asleep and thus unaware that his teenage daughter, Margot (Michelle La), is desperately trying to reach him.

    The moment takes on layers of Hitchcockian dread and a paralyzing sense of helplessness: Thanks to bad luck and human error, not even the devices that connect us 24/7 can tell us everything we want to know.

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