Watcher

    Watcher
    2022

    Synopsis

    As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.

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    Cast

    • Maika MonroeJulia
    • Karl GlusmanFrancis
    • Burn GormanThe Watcher
    • Mãdãlina AneaIrina
    • Daniel NutaCristian
    • Gabriela ButucFlavia
    • Cristina DeleanuEleonora
    • Ștefan IancuSebastian
    • Florian GhimpuOfficer Radu
    • Flaviu CrisanSimion

    Recommendations

    • 79

      Paste Magazine

      Watcher flourishes as it complicates its premise beyond the unknowable and faceless desires of a shadowy silhouette.
    • 75

      The Film Stage

      [Okuno’s] made a smart, controlled movie of pricks and gestures and tones that accumulate into a satisfying catharsis. And perhaps validated the urge to follow your gut.
    • 70

      Film Threat

      This classically styled thriller plays on universal themes of alienation to deliver a punchy diversion with macabre tints and a love of the genre.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      In a genre movie climate marked by cheap thrills and easy scares — whatever gets us not to click on something else — it’s nice to see a film that sustains a strong ambiance of dread simply via someone looking out the window and shopping for groceries.
    • 70

      Variety

      Watcher, if it has an agenda beyond being a fun, shivery, fish-out-of-water chiller, is not so much a manifesto to Believe All Women as it is a reminder to all women watching to at least believe ourselves.
    • 70

      Screen Daily

      The film is led by Maika Monroe’s fragile performance, which grounds the story even when the proceedings start to become formulaic.
    • 63

      Slant Magazine

      Watcher gives a feminist twist to a throwback genre, but never does its topicality dilute its gripping suspense.
    • 58

      IndieWire

      Instead of leaning into the ambiguous tensions and uncanny experiences, Watcher fails to live up to its inspirations, ending up a heavy-handed, predictable trip through genre tropes with a rather lifeless cast at its core. Watcher spells out every plot point to a tee, when we wish it would slowly, playfully tug at the threads of our anxieties.