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Summary After enduring months of a fruitless police investigation into the disappearance of their daughter, a young, estranged couple, Junyang and Peiying, realize they are bring filmed surreptitiously when they begin receiving mysterious packages at their door containing DVDs with footage of their daily lives. The moments captured are unnerving...

Directed By: Siew Hua Yeo

Written By: Siew Hua Yeo

Stranger Eyes

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary After enduring months of a fruitless police investigation into the disappearance of their daughter, a young, estranged couple, Junyang and Peiying, realize they are bring filmed surreptitiously when they begin receiving mysterious packages at their door containing DVDs with footage of their daily lives. The moments captured are unnerving...

Directed By: Siew Hua Yeo

Written By: Siew Hua Yeo

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
68
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14% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
68
86% Positive
6 Reviews
14% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Aug 6, 2025
80
Solving one mystery unexpectedly quickly before diving into deeper, more searching uncertainties of human behavior and relationships, the third feature from Singaporean writer-director Yeo Siew Hua gradually reveals a broken heart beneath its sleek, chilly veneer.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
Aug 6, 2025
80
What saves this from being just best-of list bait for upmarket film critics is the sincerity of the performances, especially from the core trio of Wu, Lee and Panna, each of whom projects a profound loneliness that’s never more apparent than when they’re in the middle of a crowded place. Which, this being Singapore, is just about everywhere.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
Aug 29, 2025
70
Always intriguing, Stranger Eyes proves stronger on concept than coherence. Perhaps the loose ends are Yeo’s way of suggesting that a film director, too, lacks omniscience.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
Aug 29, 2025
70
Yeo Siew Hua shows that surveillance isn’t only about control—it’s also about how we see ourselves through someone else’s eyes. In the end, the film leaves us unsettled with the idea that being watched doesn’t just change how we act, it changes who we become.
By Alan Ng FULL REVIEW
Jul 31, 2025
67
Stranger Eyes belongs to Lee. Whether or not Yeo wrote it with him in mind, I can’t think of a better performer to flesh out the chasm that powers the film: between different ways of looking, between fears as old as time itself and the state-of-the-art technology used to bring them to light.
By Leonardo Goi FULL REVIEW
Sep 23, 2024
63
Lee Kang-sheng’s performance is the emotional and physical lodestone of a film about the fraught ambiguities of seeing through a one-way mirror.
By Cole Kronman FULL REVIEW
Oct 11, 2024
40
Stranger Eyes is a cold, disjointed, and stale mystery thriller with a thin plot and no atmosphere.
By Emma Kiely FULL REVIEW

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Production Company
  • Akanga Film Productions
  • Volos Films
  • Films de Force Majeure
  • Cinema Inutile
  • Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum
  • Infocomm Media Development Authority
  • CNC Aide aux cinémas du monde - Institut Français
  • Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA)
  • Purin Pictures
Release Date Aug 29, 2025
Duration 2 h 5 m
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Website https://filmmovement.com/stranger-eyes
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Awards

Golden Horse Film Festival
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Taipei Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Asian Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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