Relay a throwback to smart thrillers

Smart, well-acted and containing a narrative switchback I didn’t see coming, Relay from director David Mackenzie ( Hell or High Water ) is a pleasant surprise. This slow-burn thriller revolves around an intriguing premise that would have been right at home during the era of paranoid thrillers from the mid-1970s. Hitchcockian in tone, the film is perfectly in tune with the social media moment we find ourselves in, the script by Justin Piasecki inverting our society’s reliance on all things electronic, his story featuring a protagonist that employs analog methods to subvert modern technology.

Ash (Riz Ahmed) is an intermediary who brokers deals with major corporations and those that would expose their nefarious practices. He serves as a middleman,

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