Swiped is a movie stuck in the 2010s. It’s not just that the events portrayed in the movie happen between 2012 and 2014, when entrepreneur Whitney Wolfe Herd helps create Tinder, gets ousted from the company, and founds Bumble. Nor is it just the movie’s liberal use of Daft Punk and LCD Soundsystem needle drops, nor its outdated form of “Lean In” corporate feminism.
No, Swiped is a movie stuck in the 2010s because it doesn’t know how to feel about online dating.
Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, who shares a co-writer credit with Bill Parker and Kim Caramele, Swiped follows stars Lily James as Herd, as she joins up with Sean Rad (Ben Schnetzer) to make Tinder into a viable app and starts dating fellow exec and apparent nice guy Justin Mateen (Jackson White). When Justin becomes a