‘The Watchers’ Review: Ishana Shyamalan’s Debut Is Big on Talk, Low on Shock

Dakota Fanning stars in a supernatural thriller with an unnatural emphasis on exposition and rules

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Dakota Fanning in "The Watchers" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

If movies like “The Watchers” have taught us anything it’s that when your Bluetooth device flashes ancient runes at you, you’re probably about to have a bad day. I’m not sure when exactly supernatural creatures learned how to code or how they’re replacing digital readouts and binary numbers with magic symbols, and I’ll grant you it doesn’t seem to happen terribly often, but it usually seems to presage something magically deadly (or at least magical death-adjacent).

“The Watchers” stars Dakota Fanning as Mina, an American working at a pet store in Ireland. She’s asked to deliver a rare Golden Conure — don’t look it up, it’s just a yellow parrot — to a faraway zoo.

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    Janice Sanz

    Yeah, the Watchers was not what I hoped for.

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