Don’t let the fact that “Relay” is jogging quietly into theaters in the dog days of summer fool you. The latest effort from “Hell or High Water” director David Mackenzie is a smart and engaging ...

Sharp, fun, and smartly entertaining from its first scene to its final twist, David Mackenzie’s “Relay” is an old-fashioned movie about an old-fashioned guy. The movie is a modern paranoid thriller ...

For Relay, Mackenzie leans heavily on our lead character, played by Riz Ahmed (he goes by several names in the film; we’ll use James), to do much of the heavy lifting, and it’s masterfully handled. In ...

As the social media saying goes, the “vibes are immaculate” for the first two acts of David Mackenzie’s Relay. For a while, I was really enjoying what felt like a modern send-up on a Michael Mann or ...

Featuring a terrific central performance from Riz Ahmed, ‘Relay’ is styled very much in the mold of classic paranoid thrillers from the 1970s like ‘The Parallax View’ and ‘The Conversation.’ It’s not ...