Early reactions to M. Night Shyamalan’s psychological thriller Trap following an early screening were pretty positive. Now that the film is set to hit theaters around the world on Friday, August 2, the reviews are rolling in from critics. And the film’s Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores don’t exactly match the film’s early reactions.

Trap currently holds an average approval rating of 48% after 31 reviews on the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. Meanwhile, on Metacritic, which uses a weighted average to rate a film, Trap has a score of 61 out of 100 after 10 reviews, indicating a "generally favorable" response.

ScreenCrush's Matt Singer is among the reviewers who gave Trap a positive review. Singer praised the film as not only the "best" film Shyamalan has made in years, but also as the filmmaker's most "Hitchcockian" project to date.

William Bibbiani of The Wrap called Trap a "fiendishly clever thriller," before adding that while the film may not have "the depth of Shyamalan's major films or the theatrical nature of his most memorably strange experiments," it's still "one of his best thrillers." "A tightly directed, devilishly fun, mean little film that challenges us to look at the serial killer genre from new angles," he added.