Maika Monroe

Maika Monroe plays Jay in David Robert Mitchell's It Follows. Kim Newman's film of the week piece for the British Film Institute calls her a bright spark and credits her with carrying a young and largely unknown cast. The same piece recalls her final girl in Adam Wingard's The Guest, from 2014. Writing on Longlegs, Roger Luckhurst finds the film's pared-down, off-balance energy carried by two central performances and counts hers among them, as a spooked FBI investigator; he describes the work as a tightly repressed, traumatised protagonist played with emotional flatness and a composure on the edge of coming apart.