LifeHack

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LifeHack

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May 2026

1h 36m

Mystery & Thriller

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Crime

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LifeHack is a high-stakes cyber-heist thriller built for the digital age. Kyle and his three friends spend their time gaming and pranking online scammers with their hacking skills. Eager for a real challenge, Kyle persuades them to target billionaire Don Heard by exploiting his daughter Lindsey's overshared social media presence. When the foursome successfully infiltrate Don's cryptocurrency wallet, they believe they've pulled off the perfect crime -- until Lindsey calls Kyle with an ultimatum. As the stakes escalate, what begins as a thrill-seeking stunt spirals into a dangerous game with consequences these four friends never anticipated.

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Critics Consensus

An inventive spin on the found footage genre, LifeHack's high-pressure scenario and its gestures toward income inequality make for a thoughtful thriller worth plugging into.

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Kyle Logan

Chicago Reader

May 19

The critiques of screenlife as a gimmick come true: The form separates from the action. The two seem to exist on...distinct parallel planes rather than as a coherent whole.

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Clint Worthington

RogerEbert.com

May 15

3/4

We may not always be able to escape the technological hell of our modern lives, but at least films like this try to assemble something exciting out of their brain-numbing mundanity.

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Kyle Smith

Wall Street Journal

May 14

Mr. Corrigan not only directs with verve, but he and his co-writer Hope Elliott Kemp also find sly ways to say things without saying them.

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Sean McGeady

Radio Times

Jul 20

3/5

Ronan Corrigan toys with heist-movie conventions throughout until LifeHack eventually struggles under the weight of its plotting - but the dizzying spectacle of its cybersecurity attacks is fun to watch.

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Lexi Amoriello

Movie Recs by Lex

Jul 9

Revitalizes both the heist genre and the screenlife format. LifeHack delivers all the thrills of a traditional heist film, but with a distinctly cyber spin, proving there is still room for innovation in both genres.

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Sarah Vincent

Sarah G Vincent Views

May 25

It is reminiscent of "Didi (弟弟)" (2024) or "Boyhood" (2014), but not for long. "Life Hack" prefers to stay in shallow waters

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christopher b

May 18

What a masterpiece. I appreciate Curry Barker’s nods to Ti West and Ari Aster.

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mary D

May 17

Waste of time and money

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Oliver

May 17

I liked the concept and how it held my attention the whole way through.

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Ross F

@RT08448663 1d

Utter rubbish. I have no clue who or what gave it 5 stars but wow. Come on now. Surely you watched the same movie as me. Save your enjoy or atleast just choose a different movie. Theres loads out there.

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Matt J

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I'm in tech, and I don't even like this. Not sure who this is for, or how it got such high reviews from critics. Maybe the script kiddies side loaded the critic's devices. That's gotta be it, because this was a waste of the 15 minutes I endured before shutting it off...

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Harris R

@Harrisons_reviews Jul 27

Are the 42 critics that rated this boring nonsense the very high 95% a bunch of teenagers that haven't seen a real film?? This was so boring and predictable, watching paint dry would be more entertaining. And the constant multi-screen windows that kept popping up and vanishing before you could make any sense of them just gave me a headache. It's a generous 5/10 for the fairly decent casting and performances.

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LifeHack is a high-stakes cyber-heist thriller built for the digital age. Kyle and his three friends spend their time gaming and pranking online scammers with their hacking skills. Eager for a real challenge, Kyle persuades them to target billionaire Don Heard by exploiting his daughter Lindsey's overshared social media presence. When the foursome successfully infiltrate Don's cryptocurrency wallet, they believe they've pulled off the perfect crime -- until Lindsey calls Kyle with an ultimatum. As the stakes escalate, what begins as a thrill-seeking stunt spirals into a dangerous game with consequences these four friends never anticipated.

Director: Ronan Corrigan
Producer: Timur Bekmambetov, Sasha Kletsov, Joann Kushner
Screenwriter: Ronan Corrigan, Hope Elliott Kemp
Distributor: Triple Media Film / Iconic Events
Production Co: Bazelevs, Screenlife Liverpool
Rating: R (Pervasive Language|Teen Drug Use and Drinking|Some Sexual Content/Nudity)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 15, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 4, 2026
Runtime: 1h 36m

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