Review: Steven Soderbergh's HBO Max thriller 'Kimi' is 'Parallax View' for the pandemic era
The key art for "Kimi," Steven Soderbergh's nifty new micro-thriller, features a glum-faced, blue-haired young woman in an orange hoodie. You might reasonably conclude that this is Kimi, but no, her name is actually Angela. She works for the tech company that created Kimi, a high-tech virtual assistant that answers its customer's every request with a bright magenta light and a reassuring "I'm here." Like Siri or Alexa, but with more sophisticated (Read: Invasive) learning capabilities, Kimi will dim your lights, play your music and even fire up HBO Max, which is where you'll find this latest fictional dispatch from a world under self-imposed 24-7 surveillance.
Soderbergh drops us into that world
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