A modern anti-tech thriller, "Relay" triumphantly champions the forms of communication we've largely left behind or pushed to the margins, while showing that themes of paranoia and corporate malfeasance are universal, no matter the mode of delivery. It's a '70s-style, street-smart, feet-on-the-ground action movie, right up until the moment it betrays itself, and its audience.

Riz Ahmed, Oscar-nominated for his role as a deaf drummer in "Sound of Metal," plays Tom, a shadowy fixer who helps protect whistleblowers from the corporations they're exposing. His methods of staying anonymous in a digital world include burner phones, the U.S. Postal Service and, most thrillingly, a phone system for the deaf and hard of hearing, which relays calls from a keyboard through an intermediary third party

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