It's a B movie with an A-list cast and the kind of deliberate pacing and visual design that might have impressed Stanley Kubrick.
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08/01/02
Signs (2002)
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Reviews Counted:218
Fresh:161
Rotten:57
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: With Signs, Shyamalan proves once again an expert at building suspense and giving audiences the chills.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: It's contaminated. That's what pint-sized Bo (Abigail Breslin) says about every glass of water that she tries to drink, then rejects. This is just one in a long list of strange occurrences that are... [More]
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Reviews for Signs
181 - 200 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Produces the sensation that you are experiencing something for the first time, rather than a genre retread.
08/01/02
[Shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirit, purpose and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more than body count.
08/01/02
Shyamalan wears his influences on his sleeve, from composer James Newton Howard's Hitchcockian score to the absorbing Close Encounters by way of Amazing Stories screenplay.
08/01/02
A triumph of mood over logic, of faith over reason.
08/01/02
Shyamalan offers copious hints along the way -- myriad signs, if you will -- that beneath the familiar, funny surface is a far bigger, far more meaningful story than one in which little green men come to Earth for harvesting purposes.
08/01/02
Brooding, gripping movie that held a recent preview audience in such rapt attention, you couldn't hear a single candy wrapper crinkle.
08/01/02
[Shyamalan's] Big Idea raises a Big Question: So what?
08/01/02
It's the best scare you'll have this summer.
08/01/02
Superb shiver story about faith, the meaning of coincidences, family solidarity in the face of the inexplicable, and how destiny unfolds in every moment.
08/01/02
A thrilling ride that will make you both scream with fear and shriek with laughter.
08/01/02
Top CriticThe film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks, plus moments of breathtaking mystery.
08/01/02
Offers an exceptionally intriguing premise and a flat follow-through.
08/01/02
A field of screams...Signs point to Shyamalan as this generation's Hitchcock.
08/01/02
Signs is deliberate and shocking from its sweeping exterior to its raw, emotional interior. Orson Welles would be proud.
08/01/02
In many ways, it is Shyamalan's most accomplished film to date.
08/01/02
The streak continues.
08/01/02
A very well-crafted tease.
08/01/02
You JUST KNOW something is about to jump out of the darkness and make you wet your pants. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. And therein lies the fun of "Signs."
08/01/02
If Shayamalan wanted to tell a story about a man who loses his faith, why didn't he just do it, instead of using bad sci-fi as window dressing?
08/01/02
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