Movie · 2025 · History, Drama · 1h 51m · R · English
Curator score: 1.8/10 (29.3K ratings)
Meet the woman who made the first move.
Overview
Whitney Wolfe uses extraordinary grit and ingenuity to break into the male-dominated tech industry.
Ratings
Curator score: 1.8/10
IMDb: 6.5/10
Letterboxd: 3.10/5
Metacritic: 42
TMDB: 6.6/10
Director
Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Production
20th Century Studios, Ethea Entertainment
Cast
Lily James, Ben Schnetzer, Myha'la, Jackson White, Dan Stevens, Ian Colletti, Mary Neely, Ana Yi Puig, Aidan Laprete, Pedro Correa, Pierson Fodé, Joely Fisher, Kai Van Moorsel, Michael Nouri, Julia Cavanaugh, Mark Kwak, Gregg Daniel, Coral Peña, Roman Arabia, Anthony Bowden
Where to watch
Hulu
Curator Review
Verdict
A slick, accessible tech-industry drama with a strong central performance and a timely undercurrent about gender, power, and branding. It plays like a streamlined origin story more than a deep investigative drama, so it works best as a crowd-pleasing, conversation-starting watch rather than a definitive account.
Best for
viewers who like female-led business dramas
fans of inspirational true-story movies
people interested in startup culture and dating-app history
audiences who prefer polished, fast-moving biographical dramas
Skip if
you want a rigorous, nuanced corporate exposé
you’re tired of rise-and-fall tech founder stories
you prefer subtle character studies over broad dramatization
you dislike glossy streaming-style historical dramas
Overview
Swiped turns a recent chapter of tech history into a brisk, watchable drama about ambition, sexism, and the cost of building something inside a boys’ club. The movie’s appeal is straightforward: a charismatic lead, clear stakes, and a story that taps into modern anxieties about dating apps and startup culture without requiring much homework from the viewer.
Worth noting
What it does well is keep the momentum up and make the workplace power struggle legible and emotionally immediate. It has the shape of an underdog story, but the real hook is less triumph than friction: who gets credit, who gets pushed out, and how quickly a promising idea can be swallowed by the culture around it.
Bottom line
The tradeoff is that the film can feel compressed and familiar, especially if you’ve seen other polished business biographies. It’s entertaining and easy to recommend to a broad audience, but it doesn’t fully escape the genre’s tendency toward simplification. Still, for viewers who want a contemporary, female-led tech drama with bite, it delivers enough to be worth a look.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Mary Neely (5★) · 815 likes
I am in this movie and it was a very important job for me. It’s the biggest role I’ve had in a studio movie but it’s also the first job I booked after the strikes ended.
I’ve been very lucky as an actor, I’ve made most of my income as an adult by working consistently in commercials, tv and film since I was still in theater school but the strikes were the first time I had to work odd end… more
Thomas (3★) · 806 likes
“It was different time.”
“it was four months ago“
latecityfinal (3★) · 758 likes
It brings me no pleasure to report they’re making period pieces about 2014 now
B E R T (3.5★) · 631 likes
Reason number 51348 why men are horrible!!!
⋆ ˚｡ belis ˚｡⋆ (3★) · 424 likes
thank you to this diva for creating bumble. those tinder guys suck. on a more serious note: never again make lily james wear contacts!! terrifying.
2017 · Drama, Crime · 2h 21m · R · Curator 5.6/10 (462.3K ratings) · Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
A sharp, stylish rise-and-fall story about a woman building a high-stakes enterprise in a male-dominated arena.