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[Opens May 14 in theaters.] Timur Bekmambetov's intense, suspenseful, factually inspired, well-written, disturbing, unpredictable, 105-minute, 2018 thriller, which is based on Anna Erelle's novel In the Skin of a Jihadist and told primarily via social media screen snapshots reminiscent of Unfriended, in which courageous, undercover, hijab-wearing, freelance British journalist Amy Whittaker (Valene Kane) in London pretends to convert to Islam to begin a risky relationship with a dangerous ISIS recruiter (Shazad Latif) who is in Syria in an attempt to infiltrate the extremist organization and to expose the terrorists, but she becomes more romantically involved with him than she intended while working for her chief editor (Christine Adams).
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