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Watching movies about watching people.
This month Criterion Channel’s new “Surveillance Cinema” series features a number of Verge reader favorites: Gattaca, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, and The Conversation.
But Demonlover, Olivier Assayas’s underrated corporate espionage thriller, might be the pick here that’s most prescient about the internet and people’s obsession with superheroes, porn, and Japan. It received mixed reviews when it was released in 2002, but you might be shocked how well it holds up over two decades later.
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