Spiderhead

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Director:

Joseph Kosinski

Release Date:

Jun 17, 2022

Runtime:

1m

Synopsis

In a state-of-the-art penitentiary run by brilliant visionary Steve Abnesti (Chris Hemsworth), inmates wear a surgically attached device that administers dosages of mind-altering drugs in exchange for commuted sentences. There are no bars, no cells, or orange jumpsuits. In Spiderhead, incarcerated volunteers are free to be themselves. Until they’re not. At times, they’re a better version. Need to lighten up? There’s a drug for that. At a loss for words? There’s a drug for that, too. But when two subjects, Jeff (Miles Teller) and Lizzy (Jurnee Smollett), form a connection, their path to redemption take a twistier turn, as Abnesti’s experiments start to push the limits of free will altogether. Based on The New Yorker short story by George Saunders, SPIDERHEAD is a genre-bending and darkly funny psychological thriller directed by Joseph Kosinski (TRON: Legacy, Top Gun: Maverick) and written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick (Deadpool, Zombieland).

Cast

  • Chris Hemsworth
  • Miles Teller

Letterboxd User Reviews

2.6
245.5K
28.4K
25.8K
RATINGS 65 FANS
2.6
  • Jun 15, 2022

    A Netflix film that will be trending #1 the week its released and then forgotten about a week later.

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    MarMar
    MarMar
    Jun 18, 2022

    you mean to tell me a spider gave me this head?

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    Jay
    Jay
    Jun 18, 2022

    Great, another feature-length Black Mirror episode about how obviously bad ideas have consequences anyone could have foreseen.

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    matt lynch
    matt lynch
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    Jun 17, 2022

    My dad said he was taking me to summer camp, but it turns out it wasn’t summer camp, it was foster care 😂 I never saw him again 😂

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    Bryan Espitia
    Bryan Espitia
    Jun 18, 2022

    was i paying attention or was i thinking about having an eiffel tower threesome with chris hemsworth & miles teller the whole time

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    nat🥀
    nat🥀
    Jun 17, 2022

    Joseph Kosinski really went I'm gonna direct the best and worst films of 2022

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    ale
    ale
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    Jun 17, 2022

    if miles teller wasn’t in this i wouldn’t have watched it enough said

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    lanie
    lanie
    Jun 15, 2022

    had way more potential to be a truly great science fiction film but ultimately fell flat… overall still liked it.

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    George Carmi
    George Carmi
    Jun 13, 2022

    Imagine if there were a giant, multi-billion-dollar machine fueled by human attention; a massive contraption that could only be sustained by attracting every pair of eyeballs on Earth through the use of an algorithm that mulched art into content, and reduced audiences into…

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    davidehrlich
    davidehrlich

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Metacritic

54
metacritic
Based on 34 Critics
5.1

USER SCORE (55)

Mixed or average reviews based on 55 Reviews
40
Jun 20, 2022

Spiderhead was adapted from a short story by George Saunders, but halfheartedly and with decidedly less wit.

Metacritic review by K. Austin Collins
K. Austin Collins
Rolling Stone
60
Jun 17, 2022

It’s enjoyably acted and astutely put together, with plot details that bleed out at just the right speed. But it lacks the thrilling existential dizziness and lingering chill of Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, to which it owes a considerable and obvious debt: in fact, it’s essentially the Ex Machina you can follow while making cups of tea and checking your phone, which may be all that Netflix wanted from it.

Metacritic review by Robbie Collin
Robbie Collin
The Telegraph
42
Jun 17, 2022

The film morphs into an action thriller in the final act, but by then I’d lost interest. It didn’t feel thrilling, it felt like a way to bring some resolution to a story that never quite finds its reason for existing.

Vince Mancini
Uproxx

Frequently Asked Questions

How long is Spiderhead (2022)?
The movie is 1min long.
What's Spiderhead (2022) about?
In a state-of-the-art penitentiary run by brilliant visionary Steve Abnesti (Chris Hemsworth), inmates wear a surgically attached device that administers dosages of mind-altering drugs in exchange for commuted sentences. There are no bars, no cells, or orange jumpsuits. In Spiderhead, incarcerated volunteers are free to be themselves. Until they’re not. At times, they’re a better version. Need to lighten up? There’s a drug for that. At a loss for words? There’s a drug for that, too. But when two subjects, Jeff (Miles Teller) and Lizzy (Jurnee Smollett), form a connection, their path to redemption take a twistier turn, as Abnesti’s experiments start to push the limits of free will altogether. Based on The New Yorker short story by George Saunders, SPIDERHEAD is a genre-bending and darkly funny psychological thriller directed by Joseph Kosinski (TRON: Legacy, Top Gun: Maverick) and written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick (Deadpool, Zombieland).
Who's the cast of Spiderhead (2022)?
  • Chris Hemsworth
  • Miles Teller
Who's the director behind Spiderhead (2022)?
Joseph Kosinski directed Spiderhead (2022).