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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 10 Nov 2016

Not least of the surprises here is that even when The Monster is trying to scare you witless, its every scene insistently reaffirms its characters’…

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By Clark Collis (94) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 10 Nov 2016

Like The Strangers, the result is a simple but skillfully told shocker…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 10 Nov 2016

Part of the ticklish enjoyment in The Monster is how the director, Bryan Bertino (“The Strangers”), plays with genre registers and how,…

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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 10 Nov 2016

In the end, The Monster does more by way of thrilling tension and heartfelt admissions than it does through any scares, but that doesn’t…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 Nov 2016

The film has an eerily WTF arbitrariness that should be the domain of more films in the genre…

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By Andy Crump (279) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Nov 2016

Unlike many modern horror films, made using top-down design where theme, metaphor, and meaning come before plot and story, The Monster is built…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Nov 2016

With The Monster, writer-director Bryan Bertino plants a prickly mother-daughter drama at the center of a violent creature feature…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 10 Nov 2016

It's a slow effort, painfully so at times, but the reward is a sharp psychological study that ends up being the most interesting conflict in…

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By Ethan Sacks (28) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 09 Nov 2016

Bertino is just concerned with making you feel for his characters — and that he manages to do competently, despite their deep flaws…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 09 Nov 2016

The Monster is as dull and predictable as its title, a creature feature in which the melodramatic flashbacks are the only bits with bite…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 09 Nov 2016

As in his first shocker, the sadistic home-invasion film The Strangers, director Bryan Bertino shows he knows all the usual tricks, without…

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By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 08 Nov 2016

The end result isn’t bad; its potential merely creates disappointment…

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By Brad Miska (152) for Bloody Disgusting (327) on 07 Nov 2016

I feel pretty confident that fans of The Strangers are going to adore this dramatic gut-punch that's either a work of art, or cheesy bliss…

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By Chris Alexander (75) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 06 Nov 2016

Zoe Kazan delivers a powerhouse performance in this masterful horror film…

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By Robert Martin (28) for Starburst (899) on 04 Nov 2016

It's the relationship between the mother and daughter, fighting their own monsters, which makes the film resonate beyond the frights…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 03 Nov 2016

It is an average monster movie but with above average performances by Zoe Kazan and Ella Ballentine, making it a plus in the pantheon of relatively…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 22 Oct 2016

The upcoming A Monster Calls may have a higher pedigree, but the rougher and rawer The Monster mines similar emotional ground…

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By Mark R. Leeper (892) for Mark Leeper's Reviews (297) on 22 Oct 2016

This film is an exercise in suspense that does not always work, but still has a few good scares for the audience…

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