I thoroughly enjoyed “Unsane.” The movie starts with a simple enough premise about a young women (Claire Foy), living on her own in a new city, struggling and feeling a little lost and depressed. She goes into see a therapist and ends up, mistakenly, so it seems, getting checked into an inpatient facility for observation. As a therapist, I kept cringing because I would never want people to watch this and think a person could go in and see a therapist, making super vague statements about depression and not wanting to live a life where she felt this depressed and automatically getting checked-into an inpatient facility. You share Claire Foy’s journey and feel scared and outraged but as the movie continues to unfold, you start to question what is the truth/reality. It is an intriguing premise and such fun to watch this film and not know exactly what is going on and whose reality is the “true” reality.

Jay Pharoah (SNL) is excellent as the trusted friend on the inside. Some people had issues with the fact that this movie was shot entirely on an iPhone. I personally thought it was fine to watch and looked and felt really good considering it was shot on a phone. It almost gave it a vintage, old-school feel, which I liked. Sometimes movies look too clean these days on the big screen, so I appreciated the more real look of the movie.

Grade: B+