The Receptionist (2016)

A young college graduate in London takes a job as a receptionist in an illegal massage parlor where she and her fellow Taiwanese immigrants experience real existential hardship.I love love love this movie. I feel like I had a life affirming, if not life changing, experience watching this. Everything about this film works. Especially the acting and the story. Some of the scenes are brutal. It would definitely get an R rating in the US, but it’s not exploitative one bit. It’s the furthest thing from a dumb, slasher horror film or a gross out high school comedy. It’s like a Chekov story or an Ibsen play. It’s for fans of intelligent, tight, suspenseful, compassionate, slow burning crime dramas. It’s definitely one I will be raving about to my friends. If I could give it higher than my absolute highest recommendation, I would. Please, please watch this film. It’s really amazing.