101 minute running time but I went to fast forward after 20 minutes since the gimmick of placing all the action on a computer screen got old fast … grimacing Korean-American father on the webcam, enough already … hot Tiger Mom dying young from cancer pretty grim … so the lady cop was a bad guy? Had a happy ending looked like. Bad. You can give this one a miss.

“All those typed Google searches and text message exchanges grow wearying to the viewer’s eye … in a clunky resolution, the story turns as flat as the screens that contain it.“ — Steven Winn

“The failure of ‘Searching’ is, conversely, an inability to integrate much of life at all into the world of screens.“ — Dick Brody