{"id":652294,"date":"2026-06-22T14:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652294\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:31:13","slug":"doctor-who-stars-heart-pounding-heist-thriller-is-the-near-perfect-movie-to-watch-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652294\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who star’s “heart-pounding” heist thriller is the near-perfect movie to watch tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

LifeHack, an acclaimed heist thriller starring Doctor Who and Heartstopper actor Yasmin Finney that only premiered in UK cinemas last month, is available to watch now after being added to streaming over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The film follows four teenagers who have gamed together since meeting on Minecraft years ago, and decide to put their tech skills to use by stealing money from a cryptocurrency mogul.<\/p>\n

As part of the screenlife genre, this is a found footage film told entirely through things like laptops, phone screens and videos doorbells.<\/p>\n

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Cast-wise, Finney is joined by Wednesday’s George Farmer, Outlander and A Woman of Substance’s Jessica Reynolds, and The Fifth Element and Peaky Blinders’ Charlie Creed-Miles.<\/p>\n

As of the weekend just gone, LifeHack can be streamed with either a Sky Cinema or NOW Cinema<\/a> subscription. It’s also being shown on the Sky Cinema Premiere channel.<\/p>\n

Over on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, the film has a near-perfect score of 95% from 40 critic reviews.<\/p>\n

“LifeHack is one of the best examples of the sub-genre and should open more doors for a promising new filmmaker and a versatile young cast,” wrote San Jose Mercury News<\/a>, while RogerEbert.com<\/a> stated that the film “captures the walled-off loneliness that can befall the generation of kids who\u2019ve been glued to screens their entire lives”.<\/p>\n

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“It’s a film featuring realistic hacking (at least, more realistic than Hollywood is accustomed to), one in which information, jokes and memes flood the screen as quickly as they do the lives of Generation Z,” wrote Variety<\/a>. “The result is a genuinely funny and ultimately heart-pounding production, with an executions that feels like a heist itself.”<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> called LifeHack “a superior example of the form”, while Slant Magazine<\/a> stated that the film is “consistently intriguing for the conflicting emotions with which it looks back on its chosen moment in tech and time”.<\/p>\n

LifeHack is available to stream now on Sky\/NOW Cinema.<\/p>\n

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Joe Anderton is a freelance news writer at Digital Spy, having worked there since 2016. In his time, he’s covered a host of live events and interviewed celebrities big and small. A big fan of TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> both mainstream and obscure, Joe also enjoys video games and in particular PlayStation. Joe currently does not use Twitter, but he only ever used it to tell people to watch the film Help! I’m a Fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LifeHack, an acclaimed heist thriller starring Doctor Who and Heartstopper actor Yasmin Finney that only premiered in UK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[154032,219388,147950,379,219387,381,96,2788,190731,1156,2839,219386,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-652294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-collection-doctor-who","tag-collection-heartstopper","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-c2219b5c-aff1-468f-96fe-29baef41a5bc","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-hasproduct-true","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-doctor-who-stars-heist-thriller-is-one-to-watch-tonight","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}