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08/12/02
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
61 - 80 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
More than any other filmmaker working today, M. Night Shyamalan connects with his audience and his characters in a totally unique way to transport us so effortlessly into the world of 'what ifs.'
08/12/02
Maybe I feel let down because I'd appreciate someone presenting a halfway credible explanation for the crop circles and this does nothing more than to drain away some of their fascination in a commercially successful maneuver to exploit.
08/12/02
...knows it is what you don’t know that’s scary.
08/11/02
[Shyamalan's] a skilled flashlight-guy, and movie theaters are his campfires.
08/11/02
Shyamalan wants to be the metaphysical poet of movies, but he's dangerously close to becoming its O. Henry.
08/11/02
Shyamalan would have done better to leave the soapbox at home.
08/11/02
If you can, take your eyes off the screen for a moment and look around. You’ll see scared people.
08/09/02
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08/09/02
There are now two signs that M. Night Shyamalan’s debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema: Unbreakable and Signs.
08/08/02
Using the theorem that less is more, Shyamalan creates a psychologically frightening movie taut with emotional tension and ripe with fear.
08/08/02
The same old same old: dull and recycled, with no surprises.
08/08/02
The movie is almost completely lacking in suspense, surprise and consistent emotional conviction.
08/08/02
The religious statement is so out of keeping with the tone of the rest of the movie that it seems unintentional.
08/08/02
Shayamalan clearly thinks that Signs is important and mythic. In reality, it's a well-crafted creepy movie with appallingly simplistic religiosity grafted onto it.
08/07/02
M. Night Shyamalan uses ham-fisted coincidences to build, Thomas Aquinas-style, an a posteriori proof of the existence of God. No, really.
08/07/02
The kind of suspenseful thrilling movie that I haven't seen in a very long time.
08/07/02
A big disappointment.
08/07/02
Despite its sincere acting, Signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype.
08/06/02
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