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 ...

This taut, expertly-scripted thriller, written by newcomer Justin Piasecki and directed by David Mackenzie, is set in New ...