The film’s weighing of individual right to life against global survival isn’t an easy exchange.
In the moments when Old works, it’s because M. Night Shyamalan embraces the inherent weirdness of his material.
The show’s control of tone and atmosphere soon becomes even more engrossing than the story’s mystery itself.
M. Night Shyamalan’s film is aimed at an audience from whom he cringingly craves fealty.
Split is personal and outlandish, with riveting plotting, somber storytelling, and elegant construction.
This disc’s picture and sound presentations are aces. You’ll want the lights down low for this one.
Fish-out-of-water comedies are a dime a dozen in Hollywood, but few are as well-constructed as this one.
The art of storytelling is both of distinct narrative interest and personal issue in the latest payload of calcified nonsense from one of modern cinema’s oddest would-be auteurs.
After a string of underperforming self-penned duds, M. Night Shyamalan throws his hands up and sells out with The Last Airbender.
Perhaps a more nuanced message would make the film’s conclusion feel less tiring.
Marvel and M. Night Shyamalan attempt to atone for their purported sins with The Incredible Hulk and The Happening.
As most of his films confirm, M. Night Shyamalan is far better at setup than payoff.
Like the show’s viewers, Locke is justified in his cynicism, even after bearing witness to a seemingly paranormal event.
Among its many identities, M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water is first and foremost a gaping psychic wound.
When you think of Escape to Witch Mountain and Return from Witch Mountain, do you think of Thomas Pynchon and Thomas Mann?
A disappointment in more ways than one, it’s easy to forget just how beautifully Roger Deakins shot The Village.
The film is a high-camp mélange of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and B.F. Skinner’s Walden Two.
M. Night Shyamalan has created a New Age horror flick that’s as earnest as it is eye-rolling.
The whole of the film is less than the sum of its parts, but the parts are often breathtakingly shot.