Near the end of TikTok, Boom, content creator and beatboxer Spencer X chokes up. “TikTok has really changed my entire life,” he says while fighting back tears. He’s one of a few influencers profiled ...

The rise of the youth-favored app TikTok in the last few years would seem to provide material for a comedy about American materialism and thirst for popular attention, but director Shalini Kantayya’s ...

The video-based app has won the eyeballs of a generation, but it's also a geopolitical hot potato. TikTok, the omnipresent video-based social-media app that launched five years ago, has always seemed ...

Dissecting one of the most influential platforms of the contemporary social media landscape, TikTok, Boom. examines the algorithmic, socio-political, economic, and cultural influences and impact of ...

One of the ironies in “TikTok, Boom,” a scathing look at the Chinese-owned social-media platform, is the fear that TikTok inspires in authoritarian leaders while doing precisely what they’d like to do ...

Sundance: Shalini Kantayya’s follow-up to “Coded Bias” is far too fragmented to really engage. The opening frames of “TikTok, Boom.” feature an extreme closeup of a ring-light reflected in a content ...

It’s 2022, and TikTok is seemingly everywhere. As the most downloaded app in the world, TikTok is on billions of phones in almost every country. Even if you don’t have it, chances are you’ve seen at ...

The Polygon team is reporting in from the all-virtual grounds of the 2022 Sundance International Film Festival, with a look at the next wave of upcoming independent releases in sci-fi, horror, and ...

The early internet -- from its founding until around 2010 -- was for writers: Usenet postings, blogs, web pages, LiveJournal, early Facebook, Reddit and so on. It stayed that way for so long because ...

This review originally ran January 23, 2022, for the film’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The rise of the youth-favored app TikTok in the last few years would seem to provide material ...