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    Out of the past

    Jan 28, 2021 5 minutes

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    Synchronic

    Dirs Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, USA 2020 On demand from 29 January

    Synchronic is a thoughtful and unsettling thriller with sci-fi elements from the directorial team who garnered attention with their two earlier films Resolution and, particularly, The Endless.

    Two paramedics, Steve and Dennis (Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan) working in New Orleans, are called to a series of incidents in which the casualties bear unusual injuries and appear to be in some sort of drug-induced state of bewilderment. The police show no interest, but Steve’s attention is piqued and he begins to investigate. Gradually he comes to understand that the incidents are all linked to a synthetic drug called Synchronic which, under the right conditions,

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