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‘The Watchers’ review: With a dark story set in Ireland, new Shyamalan comes out to play

Dakota Fanning stars in "The Watchers."

A steady, largely effective adaptation of the 2022 novel by A.M. Shine, writer-director Ishana Night Shyamalan’s “The Watchers” stars Dakota Fanning as an American working in a pet shop in Galway, Ireland, vaping her current life away.

A long-distance parrot delivery takes her (and parrot) to the Connemara region in western Ireland, through

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