Near the end of TikTok, Boom, content creator and beatboxer Spencer X chokes up. "TikTok has really changed my entire life," he says while fighting back tears. He's one of a few influencers profiled ...

The video-based app has won the eyeballs of a generation, but it's also a geopolitical hot potato. TikTok, the omnipresent video-based social-media app that launched five years ago, has always seemed ...

Sundance: Shalini Kantayya’s follow-up to “Coded Bias” is far too fragmented to really engage. The opening frames of “TikTok, Boom.” feature an extreme closeup of a ring-light reflected in a content ...

One of the ironies in “TikTok, Boom,” a scathing look at the Chinese-owned social-media platform, is the fear that TikTok inspires in authoritarian leaders while doing precisely what they’d like to do ...

This review originally ran January 23, 2022, for the film’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The rise of the youth-favored app TikTok in the last few years would seem to provide material ...