Synchronic

Synchronic (2020) is a sci-fi thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead and led by Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan. Two New Orleans paramedics keep arriving at gruesome, inexplicable deaths, and every victim has one thing in common: a new designer drug called Synchronic.

Steve digs into the pill and learns it does something no high should. For seven minutes it drops whoever takes it into the past — the same patch of ground, a different century. After his partner Dennis's daughter vanishes mid-trip, Steve starts dosing himself on purpose, stopwatch in hand, running the experiment again and again to figure out where in time she landed. A private diagnosis gives him very little room to get it right.

This is small-scale science fiction that leans on a single sharp idea and two committed leads rather than spectacle. If loud time-travel blockbusters have worn you out, Synchronic offers something quieter and a lot grimmer. Stream Synchronic (2020) online on iFILM.