BlackBerry

BlackBerry is strongest as a corporate biography about a device that changed how people carried work around, and about the people chasing that change. By our assessment, its best move is the fast, talky energy it gives to a story of product rise and collapse inside the tech world. The downside is that the film can feel crowded with business chatter, so it may play best if you already like that kind of office-and-market drama. In practice it has the clipped, nervous feel of a story driven by meetings, pitch language, and shifting power. BlackBerry sits among the sharper modern tech biographies, and it cares more about the pressure around innovation than about polish for its own sake.