Review: Storm Reid plays a teen who turns to the internet in search of her mother
Storm Reid stars as June, who as the movie begins is excited to have the house to herself, just as soon as her single mother, Grace , flies off to Colombia on vacation with her new boyfriend, Kevin . Naturally, June hosts a bacchanalian revel — though one may ask why she chooses the night before her mother is scheduled to come home — waking up the next day with a giant hangover. That adolescent regret is soon exacerbated by a new worry: Mom didn’t make her return flight.
It helps that the final act is not quite as ridiculous as the red herring that weighed down “Searching.” And while you wouldn’t think watching a series of pop-up windows inside other pop-up windows would be a good way to flesh out relationships and character, a few performances stand out. Reid is believable as a young woman who shifts from youthful indifference to concern and caretaking. And Joaquim de Almeida pulls off an even neater trick as a Colombian man who answers June’s request for help searching the streets where Grace disappeared: We see the actor only through the tiny window of a WhatsApp screen, but he develops a rapport with June that evolves from mere errand runner to something like a genuine friendship.
A few years ago, this style of storytelling might have seemed like dystopian science fiction. It’s no spoiler, but at the end of “Missing,” its protagonists turn their cellphones off. What’s most chilling to contemplate is the fact that, for a lot of people, screen time never ends.At area theaters. Contains some strong violence, coarse language, teen drinking and mature thematic material. 111 minutes.
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