Riz Ahmed and Lily James are up no good in Relay, the new thriller opening in movie theaters this weekend. The Relay cast also includes Sam Worthington, Willa Fitzgerald, Matthew Maher, Victor Garber, ...

I try not to read anyone else’s reviews before I put my own thoughts on paper, but David Mackenzie’s erudite thriller “Relay” played festivals a year ago and there seems to be a bit of a consensus.

Almost every frame of David Mackenzie’s Relay attempts to invoke the old-fashioned form and feel of the legendary paranoid thrillers of the 1970s. From the isolated, emotionally removed quirks of its ...