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It may portend talent, but ‘The Watchers’ is just barely watchable

FILM REVIEW

The crab apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

The Watchers is the debut feature of writer-director Ishana Night Shyamalan but you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for the work of M Night Shyamalan, the film’s producer and the filmmaker’s father.

Shyamalan the elder makes suspense-horror dramas that either give a half-baked idea a fully- baked cinematic treatment or vice versa; Shyamalan the

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