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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen Daltonever Here wears the outer clothes of a crime thriller to cloak a more haunting, disturbing, open-ended rumination on voyeurism and identity.
- 80Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenLos Angeles TimesSheri LindenArtful and atmospheric to the max, Never Here is a study in personality disintegration dressed up as a whodunit. The film marks an auspicious debut for writer-director Camille Thoman.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThoman coolly creates an oppressive atmospheric charge, as well as a deadpan satiric view of a certain kind of chillingly affectless conceptual art. A disquieting and mysterious mirage of a film.
- 75Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallNever Here is a moody inversion of the stalker genre, less of a thriller than a Lynchian thinker. Thoman has a bright future and we'll say we knew her when.
- 70Village VoiceAaron HillisVillage VoiceAaron HillisUp through the ambiguous ending, Thoman withholds the story’s bigger puzzle pieces, which is satisfying when the focus is on Miranda’s quietly traumatic unraveling. Yet as a mystery, Never Here teases too much naturalism to get away with the haunting abstruseness Lynch does in his masterful return to Twin Peaks.
- 67The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakThoman spins a suspense thriller with all its genre underpinnings around Miranda to take the control she’s always carefully ensured was hers away.
- 40The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMs. Enos is a credibly fraying voyeur, all anxious looks and nervous starts, but “Never Here” is too emotionally antiseptic to engage.