Matt
Matt gave it a four out of five. He was struck by the story behind the movie as much as the movie itself: Curry Barker edited it himself in his bedroom with nobody on set telling him to change a shot, and the cast is essentially five people plus Andy Richter in a small supporting role. He thought Inde Navarrette's performance as Nikki was the standout, calling her "all over the place" in the best way, snowballing in intensity from scene to scene, while Michael Johnston's Bear stays checked-out and passive by contrast. This kind of slow-burn horror, with long drawn-out scenes building tension before something crazy happens, is more his speed than traditional jump-scare horror, and he compared the pacing to Tarantino. He also used VidAngel to filter the film's roughly 127 F-words for a watch with one of his sons, and felt the story still held together with the filters on.
Jeff
Jeff also gave it a four out of five. He dug into the phenomenon around the film: a $750,000 budget that turned into roughly $400 million worldwide for Focus Features, built on strong word of mouth after a 30% jump in its second weekend. He drew a comparison to Backrooms as a similarly unrealistic, non-jump-scare horror movie he could enjoy despite generally avoiding the genre since watching The Sixth Sense and The Ring as a teenager. On Bear, he landed more on "willing participant" than victim, noting Bear had plenty of chances to try to escape the situation (even if leaving town, as the movie shows, doesn't actually work) and chose not to. He also called Bear a bit of a victim of his generation's awkwardness around just expressing interest in someone without a dramatic, over-the-top declaration.