Lurker

Name: Lurker
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime, Music
Released: August 22, 2025
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 78

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MUBI | Release Date: August 22, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: A retail employee infiltrates the inner circle of an artist on the verge of stardom. As he gets closer to the budding music star, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime, Music

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Chris Knight

Aug 28, 2025

Films about stalkers and obsession tend toward on-the-nose titles like Crush, Watcher, Creep or, well, Obsession, and Stalker. Lurker is thus, right from the title card, a refreshingly original take on the genre. Read full review

Screen Rant Grant Hermanns

Aug 24, 2025

In addition to providing a great script, Russell proves to have an excellent eye in the director's chair. He and cinematographer Pat Scola nicely mix a range of visual styles for their scenes, making particular use of handheld close-ups, putting us right into the emotion of each scene. Read full review

Ty Burr

Sep 5, 2025

Writer-director Russell, a producer and co-writer of TV’s “The Bear” and “Beef,” knows his Hollywood existentialism — the dread that you’re not anybody unless you know a Somebody, the easy California vibe that hides gnawing insecurity, the understanding that a friend today can and certainly would cut your throat tomorrow. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Jan 31, 2025

A tight, nifty, and unsettling little parable of the pathology of fame in our time. Read full review

Alissa Wilkinson

Aug 21, 2025

It takes its time at first, but once it really gets going, Lurker is snaky and disconcerting and smart. Read full review

David Rooney

Feb 5, 2025

The movie arguably takes a little too long to kick in, but once its sense of danger — devious, disturbing, wryly amusing — is established, it never stops. Read full review

The Film Stage Alistair Ryder

Aug 21, 2025

The film doesn’t work as a thriller for this reason, stretching credulity in how it finds new ways to keep Matthew returning to the fold, and doesn’t succeed particularly well in critiquing the vapidness of modern fame. Read full review

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