Earnest character work by Plaza, Olson, and O'Shea Jackson Jr., stylistically relevant visuals, and emphatic themes surpasses the script's numerous pitfalls.

Relevant, timely, and uncomfortably close to home, Ingrid Goes West delivers a quirky, fun, brutally awkward, legitimately unsettling cautionary tale about influencer culture and social media obsession.

The people examined by the film are as paper thin as the pixels that make the images on their phones, and have as much depth as an evaporated gully.

Ingrid Goes West tells an engaging story with a strong, fascinating character study at the centre, but the film shocks with unbelievability towards the very end, and then, simply sends out a completely wrong message.