Nerve (2016)

Most people think so. 75% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 62%.

Industrious high school senior Vee Delmonico has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future. Wikipedia ↗

Nerve is a 2016 American techno-thriller directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, based on Jeanne Ryan's 2012 novel. Emma Roberts stars as Vee, a cautious high school senior in New York City who impulsively signs up for Nerve, an online truth-or-dare game where anonymous watchers vote on increasingly dangerous dares for players to perform in exchange for cash prizes. Partnered with the mysterious Ian, played by Dave Franco, Vee's dares escalate from kissing a stranger to riding a motorcycle blindfolded through Manhattan traffic, as the game's algorithm learns to push participants toward their deepest fears while the watching audience's mob mentality demands ever more extreme content.

The film was a prescient exploration of social media mob dynamics, internet anonymity's capacity to enable cruelty, and the gamification of human behavior — themes that have become even more relevant in the years since its release. The neon-lit New York City night photography gave the film a visually electric energy. Nerve earned $85 million worldwide on a $19 million budget.