Inheritance is a 2025 American espionageaction film directed by Neil Burger from a screenplay he co-wrote with Olen Steinhauer starring Phoebe Dynevor and Rhys Ifans. The film was released in theaters on January 24, 2025.
Premise
A young woman is drawn into an international conspiracy after discovering her father is a spy.[3]
The script was co-written by Neil Burger and Olen Steinhauer, with Burger directing. The film is produced by Bill Block and Charles Miller, alongside Burger.[4] The film was developed from an idea that Burger had during the Covid-19 pandemic and is international in scope, but was filmed entirely on an iPhone. Burger has described using an "experimental style of shooting" in which there "was no wait time for camera set- ups, no makeup checks, or rehearsals. We’d arrive at the location and then immediately shoot as much as we could in the time that we had. It enabled us to travel with a small crew".[5]
The film was released in the United States on January 24, 2025.[8]
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 54% of 37 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.6/10.[9]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 55 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[10]
