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  • Pulse (2017)
    Review preview for Pulse

    Perhaps there are certain questions that we don't need asked; or if they are to be asked, a certain care in the way they are asked would be helpful.

    Jane Fae · 2 out of 5
    After a series of humiliations, a young disabled man looking for love decides to transition – but not in the manner you’d expect. Set in an alternative present in which medical procedures are drastically different, the question of what it means to change gender is complicated by the question of what it means to find love when you have a disabled body in an ableist world.
  • Pulse (2001)
    Review preview for Pulse

    The combination of subtlety and indeterminacy makes for an uncanny treat.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    Facing the apocalypse, as a secret website devotes itself to the terrible isolation of ghosts and the parable of techno terror.
  • Pulse (2006)
    Review preview for Pulse

    The Americans have a way of destroying what could be an interesting, atmospheric story and instead opt to shove in as many SFX and wooden actors as they see fit.

    John Gallagher · 1 out of 5
    Teenagers are killed as they battle an evil website.

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