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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThis tight, tense and oh-so-logical home invasion tale brings “Wait Until Dark” into the cell phone era, with suspense that rivals the equally simple “Don’t Breathe.”
- 72PolygonTasha RobinsonPolygonTasha RobinsonSee For Me updates the home-invasion formula with a couple of clever twists and a key relationship. But writers Adam Yorke and Tommy Gushue and director Randall Okita only push the formula so far before they run out of innovation.
- 70Paste MagazineMatt DonatoPaste MagazineMatt DonatoSee for Me positions itself as an unfair tale of “easy target versus evil men,” but highlights its strongest material when valuing people beyond their disabilities.
- 70Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayAside from the quirky and exciting gaming angle, See for Me is a pretty straightforward suspense film — but a well-crafted one.
- 70Film ThreatMatthew PassantinoFilm ThreatMatthew PassantinoDavenport is a blind actor who gives the proceedings some added depth because she’s able to convey a dramatic, manufactured scenario with some truth. See for Me, for its familiarity, offers enough thrills to merit seeking out.
- 67Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAustin ChronicleRichard WhittakerIt’s not just that it’s a great thriller. Its importance as a film is that it really weaves the lead character’s disability into the script, in a way that arguably wasn’t equaled in the subgenre until Mike Flanagan wrote a deaf heroine for Hush.
- 58The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyWhile it’s able to periodically introduce a sense of danger—the burglars’ arrival, the sequence with the cop—it never creates the necessary continuity of dread and suspense.
- 50RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiAlthough their work is ultimately not enough to make “See for Me” anything more than a gimmick movie that never quite pays off, Davenport almost makes it worth watching and will leave you wondering about what they could accomplish with stronger material.