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  Review by David Chen ★★★½ 17

  If I had a nickel for every time Maika Monroe starred in an indie horror film where she plays a character that gets followed around by sketchy-ass people that may mean her harm…I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

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  Review by Ayo Edebiri ★★★½ 13

  I know I’m turning into my mother because while I’m watching things, I can’t help my intrusive “wow I really like her outfit” and “hm, nice decorating” thoughts
  I was scared too and all that stuff but I really did like a lot of her outfits

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★ 3

  maika monroe really is the lowkey scream queen of my dreams… and i am living

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  Review by AmandaTheJedi ★★★½

  Never wave

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  Review by Jim Cummings ★★★★★ 8

  I feel like I’m always saying “where’s the craftsmanship?” throughout modern horror movies.
  Not for this one.
  I shut up and gasped and went “no no no no NO!”
  Very well made. Maika is amazing. It’s all so good.

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  Review by alor ★★★★ 1

  That ending tho... my god, i literally forgot how to breathe

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  Review by brett ★★★½ 2

  bitches always be stalking maika monroe

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  Review by CinemaJoe ★★★★ 6

  This is my MCU. The Maika Cinematic Universe of indie horror. 

  The tension, the dread, that ending! More of this please.

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  Review by aaron ★★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  maika monroe as the final girl covered in blood, five stars!

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  Review by 𝒜𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒹𝒶 𝒦. ★★★★ 16

  Watcher wears its influences on its sleeve and while its Hitchcockian approach may seem like well treaded ground, the addition of the fish out of water scenario solidifies it into something special.  Maika Monroe’s performance carries the film with her subtle and nuanced portrayal of an isolated and vulnerable wife.
  Dread and paranoia build into a swirling climax with just enough tension to accommodate the terrific pay off.

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  Review by sirvived ★★

  A beautifully shot but aggressively basic psychological horror film. There's some genuine tension, haunting score, great use of location, and the lead performance is great as well. You can feel the loneliness that the lead character feels and the language barriers really help induce this feeling of isolation. However, just like any modern paranoia horror film, it feels like a short film content stretched into a feature. The entire film is basically a trope because it feels too familiar that you can call almost every beat. This thing desperately needs more twists and turns considering how slow it is. I honestly didn't expect much from this and it still manages to be disappointing.

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  Review by c h r i s ★★★½

  He's staring at the woman who's staring at him.
  
  Chloe Okuno’s paranoid psychological thriller is reminiscent of early Hitchcock window watching and Polanski apartment paranoia hysterics— on paper this is easily something I can get behind! Watcher plays it too simple, when simple is not exactly what we need, it throws us a washed-up bone delivering something that has been done time and time again, only giving us a new take on a stalker-story to nitpick at, in this case; who’s watching who, is the stalker being stalked? a scenario that sets it apart from the overdone thrillers over the years, but the execution is too on-the-nose to keep itself secure; sure there are some solid suspense sequences and it also doesn’t hurt…