Film Review: ‘App,’ Smartphones Gone Wild

If you work for Sony, you probably don’t need a Dutch genre filmmaker to tell you how scary the Internet can be just now. However, if you are a selfie-taking, social network junkie who can hardly put down her smartphone, perhaps you could use another cautionary tale.
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If you work for Sony, you probably don’t need a Dutch genre filmmaker to tell you how scary the Internet can be just now. However, if you are a selfie-taking, social network junkie who can hardly put down her smartphone, perhaps you could use another cautionary tale.

Arriving at a zeitgeisty moment, while Sony and JLaw are still reeling from their respective hackings, a college student will indeed struggle with digital technology at its most pernicious in Bobby Boermans’s “App,” just released on DVD from RAM Releasing.

After a party at her ex-boyfriend's house, Rijnders wakes up with a hangover and a nasty piece of scumware installed on her phone.
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