The Watchers Movie Reviews

Feature Film | 2024 | Horror, Thriller

Critics:

2.6

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Review by: Peyton Robinson - Roger Ebert's website

[A] fabled narrative that seesaws between fantastical whimsy and proposed horrific terror with lots of ambition but little finesse.
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Review by: Michael Phillips - The Chicago Tribune

The director works well with cinematographer Eli Arenson to envelop the chamber-sized ensemble in various shades of dread, or comfort.
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Review by: Owen Gleiberman - Variety

It wants to be a kind of fairy tale. In this case, though, there’s too much impeccable pretension and not enough things that go bump in the Shyamalan night.
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Review by: Benjamin Lee - The Guardian

Any of the suspense or dread the film might have built up (of which there could have been a truckload more) turns to mush when the horror turns hokey.
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Review by: David Fear - Rollingstone

How you watch The Watchers, and how you process its series of increasingly disbelief-suspending climaxes, is your call. Unlike the foursome at the center of it, however, you can always get up and leave.
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Review by: AA Dowe - IGN Movies

If nothing else, Shyamalan has absorbed plenty of lessons about suspense and atmosphere from her time on the sets of like-minded movies like Knock at the Cabin. But the more The Watchers comes together, the less interesting it becomes.
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Review by: Elisabeth Vincentelli - The New York Times

Fanning often deploys an unsentimental reserve that's very effective from a dramatic standpoint. Here, it provides a steady counterpoint to the predictably bananas plot.
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Review by: Richard Roeper - The Chicago Sun-Times

Though Ishana Night Shyamalan demonstrates promise as a filmmaker and delivers some arresting visuals and a few good jump-scares, The Watchers feels like a cover band’s take on familiar scary movie themes, with little in the way of original ideas.
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