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Armchair sleuths have helped police solve a multitude of cases over the last decade or so, as the internet proves to provide a wealth of information and many folks at home find themselves drawn to the mystery of cold cases during their spare time. Soon, Riverdale’s Lili Reinhart will transform into a woman on the hunt for a suspected criminal when American Sweatshop sneaks its way into cinemas on September 19. Today, as part of Collider’s Exclusive Preview event, we’ve got a fresh and blacklight-soaked look at the Hustlers star in her latest leading role that sees her playing a social media moderator who gets caught up in a shocking case.

While she might be on the hunt for clues, you won’t garner many of them when it comes to where Reinhart’s character, Daisy Moriarty, finds herself in our exclusive preview of American Sweatshop. With a blacklight providing her light,...

“American Sweatshop” is a new thriller, directed by Uta Briesewitz, starring Lili Reinhart, Daniela Melchior, Jeremy Ang Jones, Josh Whitehouse, Tim Plester, Christiane Paul and Joel Fry, releasing September 19, 2025 in theaters:

“…a social media moderator ‘Daisy’ (Reinhart) is tasked with purging the most offensive content from the internet.

“But when she finds a video she believes to contain a crime, she’s lured away from the safety of her keyboard and into a dangerous world as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable…”

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The internet may look fun with cute cat videos and funny memes, but there’s a much scarier side hiding underneath. American Sweatshop, a creepy new movie from the Black Mirror director Uta Briesewitz, takes us deep into the underbelly of that terrifying world. And it’s not your usual tech thriller; it’s raw, real, and a complete nightmare.

Lili Reinhart, best known for her role in Riverdale, plays Daisy, a young woman who wants to be a nurse but ends up working a very disturbing job as a social media content moderator. Therein, watching the sadist side of humanity online is what leaves her more distraught than ever. But the worst part is that she can’t look away.

Delivering Black Mirror and Severance vibes, this upcoming movie shows what happens when technology pushes people too far, and what it does to their minds. Filled with scary tech...

Last year, we heard that Barry Levinson, director of Best Picture winner Rain Man (for which Levinson also won the Best Director Oscar), was producing a mystery thriller called American Sweatshop with Oz showrunner Tom Fontana, and Riverdale, Look Both Ways, and Hustlers star Lili Reinhart had been cast in the lead role. Now, it has been announced that American Sweatshop is set to receive a limited theatrical release on September 19th, and will also be reaching VOD that day. In anticipation of that release, a trailer for the film has dropped online and can be seen in the embed above.

Emmy nominee Uta Briesewitz, whose previous credits include Stranger Things, The Wheel of Time, Westworld and This Is Us, directed the film from a screenplay by Matthew Nemeth (City on a Hill). Here’s the synopsis: In a device driven world, American Sweatshop will take a look at the...

Violence goes viral in American Sweatshop, hitting select theaters and VOD on September 19 via Brainstorm Media.

A cyber thriller for the doom-scrolling age, the trailer below brings to mind 8Mm with a modern twist.

Lili Reinhart (“Riverdale”) stars as a social media moderator tasked with purging the most offensive content from the internet. When she finds a video she believes to contain a crime, she’s lured away from the safety of her keyboard and into a dangerous world as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable.

TV veteran Uta Briesewitz makes her feature directorial debut from a script by Matthew Nemeth (“City on a Hill”).

Daniela Melchior (The Suicide Squad), Jeremy Ang Jones (“Hijack”), Josh Whitehouse (“Daisy Jones & The Six”), Tim Plester (“Game of Thrones”), Christiane Paul (“FBI: International”), and Joel Fry (“Our Flag Means Death”) round out the cast.

Produced by Barry Levinson (Rain Man) and Tom Fontana...

"Sometimes the only way to stop a bad thing is with another bad thing." Brainstorm Media has unveiled the official trailer for an indie film titled American Sweatshop, a modern thriller about social media and how harmful it actually is. A social media moderator is tasked with purging the most offensive content from the internet. When she sees a video that appears to show a crime, she's lured into a dangerous world as she obsessively looks to hold them accountable. This is definitely commentary about Facebook, which also used to have a human moderator team, showing how they're so afraid of ever doing anything to stop actual crime and danger. A look at the toll of social media through the eyes of Daisy Moriarty. This is also similar to the Canadian thriller Red Rooms from last year. The film stars Lili Reinhart, Daniela Melchior, Jeremy Ang Jones, Josh Whitehouse, Tim Plester,...

It sure feels like an eternity waiting for Havoc to arrive on Netflix after the movie originally wrapped filming in 2021. Besides, this is the long-awaited return for Gareth Evans in the action-movie territory – his first since The Raid 2, one of the best action thrillers ever made over the last decade. Post-The Raid 2, he served as a co-showrunner alongside frequent cinematographer Matt Flannery in TV’s Gangs of London and directed his first Netflix film in the violent folk horror Apostle.

Now, with Havoc, Evans shows the world how it is done when comes to executing bruising action set pieces in both gunfights and hand-to-hand combats. Some may find Evans’ penchant for excessive violence overly exploitative and unbearable to watch. And yet, it’s hard to deny he has a knack for bringing his trademark action mayhem with a heightened sense of tactility. Every punch, kick and bullet...

Havoc ends exactly how it begins: with utter chaos.

Walker (Tom Hardy), a corrupt detective indebted to equally corrupt business mogul Lawrence (Forest Whitaker), races to find Lawrence’s errant son Charlie (Justin Cornwell), who is involved in a drug deal gone wrong.

“The story is told physically in many ways,” Hardy tells Tudum. Walker, according to Hardy, is a character who is used to “problem-solving with his hands and his physicality, as opposed to talking through it.” The action-forward approach was interesting to the actor. “It’s taking one of the characters that I love creating and building and putting them through the washing machine and see where they come out.”

The spin cycle, so to speak, begins when Walker realizes that Charlie is involved in the killing of Triad gang member Tsui (Jeremy Ang Jones), which he and his new partner Ellie (Jessie Mei Li) are investigating.

Walker...

At first, “Havoc” sounds like just another one of those generic, one-word titles Hollywood slaps on action movies to convey a terse, efficient shoot-’em-up. Why give such projects a long-winded name like “A Clear and Present Danger” or “Every Which Way but Loose” when you can find something punchy like “Taken,” “Crank” or “Drive”? Look it up in the dictionary, however, and “havoc” doesn’t simply mean “devastation” (of which there is plenty in “The Raid” director Gareth Evans’ excessively violent Netflix outing), but also some mix of confusion, mayhem and all-around disorder (which spoils whatever fun a couple over-the-top set-pieces deliver).

Looking worse for wear than Bruce Willis’ tank top at the end of “Die Hard,” Tom Hardy fully commits to the walking stereotype that is Walker, the least bad cop working Christmas Eve in a city that a) doesn’t exist, b) seems to be modeled on...

Spoiler Alert !!!Proceed with caution—this article contains major Spoilers for American Sweatshop.

Sometimes, you gotta hit rock bottom to realize just how deep the pit is. Will you agree? Well, there’s a reason the internet’s dark side is often referred to as a ‘black hole’—you can’t unsee the abyss, no matter how hard you try. Uta Briesewitz’s American Sweatshop thrusts me headfirst into that very void, where content moderators are the unsung workers trapped in the most soul-sucking job imaginable.

A job so brutal, so psychologically taxing, that the only way out is to either burn out or lose your humanity entirely. It’s about Daisy (Lili Reinhart), who works as an internet moderator, watching video after video of violence, depravity, and chaos. Her daily grind involves approving or deleting horrific content, from suicides to animal cruelty.

American Sweatshop | Credit: Guido Marx

When one particular video breaks her,...

Even in the relatively regulated world of the contemporary internet, you never know what the person next to you is looking at on their phone: Fascist propaganda? Hardcore pornography? Photos from a church picnic? So it goes that the gray, featureless office building that gives “American Sweatshop” its title looks like it could be anything. The only sign that something is off here is the on-site counselor — and the employees vomiting and crying and having rage-filled tantrums at their desks.

Content moderation is a well-documented phenomenon, first brought to widespread public attention by Adrian Chen’s 2014 “Wired” article “The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed.” The headline there says it all: Around the world, a silent army of low-wage workers manually review flagged content on social-media sites to determine whether or not it violates the site’s terms of service. In practice, this means...

Usually, it’s the films that are loud at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin. This year, however, the parade of personalities in the City of the Violet Crown will be creating plenty of thunder including Blake Lively, Jenna Ortega, Michelle Obama, Disney co-chairman Alan Bergman, Amazon and MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Conan O’Brien fresh off the Oscar Dolby Theatre stage.

There are an intriguing amount of sit-downs here at SXSW this year after the fest kicks off Friday, rivaling the number of sidebar chats at a San Diego Comic-Con and certainly towering over the few at this past year’s Sundance, where the best chats were off-menu and not contained in any program: Elvis Mitchell’s conversations with Bill Murray and Quentin Tarantino.

In a déjà vu to Comic-Con, O’Brien will be on stage twice: once in a Sunday comedy event with...

Idris Elba flies the unfriendly skies in a gripping Apple TV+ thriller that unfolds in real time. Hijack takes primarily place aboard a Kingdom Airlines A330 flight from Dubai to London. But we also see events in both cities as officials on the ground scramble to understand what's happening. An ordinary passage becomes terrifying as mysterious assailants commandeer the plane. A wily protagonist tries to ingratiate himself to the captors while subverting their plans. That's no easy task when frightened passengers act foolishly. It's a white-knuckle game of deception with lethal consequences. The two-episode premiere, "Final Call" and "3 Degrees," masterfully builds and sustains tension.

Sam Nelson (Elba) races through the Dubai airport while texting his separated wife. Marsha (Christine Adams) warns him not to come home. She's already moved on with Daniel (Max Beesley), a policeman laying in bed beside her. Sam replies "too late" as he boards KA29 to London.

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